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{{Short description|Indian Parsi art connoisseur (1904–1995)}}
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'''Karl Jamshed Khandalavala''' (16 March 1904 – 23 December 1995)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/121 |access-date=2020-04-29 |title=Pilot Officer Karl Jamshed Khandalavala}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |date=1996 |title=In Memoriam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yvZtAAAAMAAJ&q=passed |journal=Indica |volume=33 |pages=59 |access-date=2020-04-29 }}</ref> was an Indian [[Parsi]] art connoisseur, lawyer, and an [[Indian Air Force]] officer.  He was a long time trustee and chairman  of the former [[Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya | Prince of Wales Museum of Western India]], Mumbai.  He was awarded with [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest civilian award in India, in 1970, for his contribution to arts.  He was also a recipient of [[Lalit Kala Akademi]] fellowship in 1980.<ref>{{cite web |title=List of Fellows |publisher=Lalit Kala Akademi |url=http://lalitkala.gov.in/list-of-fellows.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327172429/http://lalitkala.gov.in/list-of-fellows.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-03-27 }}</ref>

As a lawyer, he had famously represented the defense in the case of [[K. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1596139/ |title=1962 AIR 605, 1962 SCR Supl. (1) 567 |access-date=2018-04-25}}</ref>

==References==
*{{cite magazine |last=Singh |first=Chander Uday |date=2013-08-22 |title=Karl Khandalawala: The perfect Renaissance scholar |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19830228-karl-khandalawala-the-perfect-renaissance-scholar-771295-2013-08-22 |magazine=[[India Today]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180425040753/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19830228-karl-khandalawala-the-perfect-renaissance-scholar-771295-2013-08-22 |archive-date=2018-04-25}}

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{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Art}}
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[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts]]
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[[Category:Parsi people from Mumbai]]

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