Avanav

Virchand Dharamsey, 

edited by Hemant Dave 

Released last week, the 46+312-page (including general index of 20 pages in three columns) book contains 22 articles plus two interviews with Virchand Dharamsey, and 150 photographs.

Published by Asiatic Society of Mumbai, and printed by India Printing Works, the book also includes an exhaustive introduction situating Virchand Dharamsey’s contributions and the intellectual climate of his times.

The subjects include Bhagwanlal Indraji and the history of Indian archaeology, Parsi theatre, silent cinema and contributions of Gujaratis to it, the advent of sound in cinema, Sagar Film Company, Satyajit Ray, sculptural and pictorial art and depiction of death. 

The other subjects include tribal art, history of Gujarati painting traditions, contributions of Parsis to Gujarati language and literature, the cultural history of Mumbai, Forbes and his Rasmala, and interviews with Nalini Swali and Prabhakar Barve.

Virchand Dharmasey (1935-2023): A self-taught scholar who built a priceless repository of knowledge

Read Murali Ranganathan’s tribute to Virchand Dharmasey here. https://scroll.in/article/1047068/virchand-dharmasey-1935-2023-a-self-taught-scholar-who-built-up-a-repository-of-knowledge