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'''Jyotindra Jain''' (born 5 June 1943) is an [[India]]n [[art historian|art]] and [[cultural historian]], and [[museologist]]. A scholar on folk and ritual arts of India, he was the Director of the [[National Crafts Museum]], [[New Delhi]], Member Secretary and Professor (Cultural Archives), at [[Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts]] ([[IGNCA]]), New Delhi,<ref name="ig">{{cite web|url=http://ignca.nic.in/ne_spirit007.htm|title=Bio-Data of Speakers|publisher=[[IGNCA]] website}}</ref> and also Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], Delhi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jnu.ac.in/FacultyStaff/ShowProfile.asp?SendUserName=jnjain|title=JNU: Faculty Profile|publisher=[[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] website|access-date=5 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727033739/http://www.jnu.ac.in/FacultyStaff/ShowProfile.asp?SendUserName=jnjain|archive-date=27 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/74968/from-gold-dust.html|title=From gold to dust|date=5 July 2010|work=Deccan Herald}}</ref> He has published a number of books on [[Indian art|Indian folk art]], including, ''Ganga Devi: Tradition and Expression in Mithila Painting'', ''Other Masters: Five Contemporary Folk and Tribal Artists of India'' and ''Kalighat Painting: Images from a Changing World''.

He has been an [[Alexander von Humboldt Fellow]], a [[Homi J. Bhabha|Homi Bhabha]] Fellow and a visiting Professor at the Center for the Study for World Religions, Harvard University, USA., and was awarded the [[Prince Claus Awards]] in 1998.<ref name="ig"/><ref name="cl">{{cite web|url=http://www.princeclausfund.org/en/what_we_do/awards/1998jain.shtml|title=Prince Claus Awards in 1998|publisher=Prince Claus Awards Official website|access-date=5 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705020329/http://www.princeclausfund.org/en/what_we_do/awards/1998jain.shtml|archive-date=5 July 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
He did his [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from the [[University of Bombay]] (now known as [[University of Mumbai]]), in 1963, followed by an M. A. in Ancient Indian Culture in 1965, also from the university. Next he received an Austrian Government Post-Graduate Scholarship (1970–1972); this helped him do a Certificate in museology from the [[University of Vienna]] in 1972, which led to a [[Ph.D.]] in [[Anthropology]], in 1972, and ethnographic field research in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Orissa.<ref name=mt>{{cite web|url=http://mumbai.mtnl.net.in/~hbfc/cv/DR_JYOTINDRA_JAIN.html|title=Dr. Jyotindra Jain CV|publisher=MTNL|access-date=5 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100303024831/http://mumbai.mtnl.net.in/~hbfc/cv/DR_JYOTINDRA_JAIN.html|archive-date=3 March 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Career ==
Starting, 1975 and till 1978, he conducted field work in Gujarat to set up a Museum of Folk Art for the Shreyas Foundation. Later, as an [[Alexander von Humboldt Fellow]] at [[Heidelberg University]] (1972–1979), he taught for one year at the [[Heidelberg University Faculty of Philosophy and History#South Asia Institute .28SAI.29|South Asia Institute]] at the university.<ref name=mt/>

In 1984, he became the Director of the [[National Crafts Museum]], [[New Delhi]].

In 1986 and 1989, he received fellowships from the [[Asian Cultural Council]] which allowed him to visit museums, observe the arts culture, and meet with museum specialists in the United States.

Over the years, he has published a number of books including, ''Ganga Devi: Tradition and Expression in Mithila Painting ''(1996); ''Other Masters: Five Contemporary Folk and Tribal Artists of India'' (1998); ''Picture Showmen: Insights into the Narrative Tradition in Indian'' Art (1998); ''Kalighat Painting: Images from a Changing World'' (1999); '' Indian Popular Culture: ‘The Conquest of the World as Picture''(2004), and ''India’s popular Culture. Iconic spaces and fluid images'' (2007).

A member-secretary of [[IGNCA]], Delhi, he curated a retrospective exhibition of photographs by [[Lala Deen Dayal]] at IGNCA, in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/The-Raja-of-images/Article1-634076.aspx|title=The Raja of images|date=3 December 2010|work=Hindustan Times|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204152125/http://www.hindustantimes.com/The-Raja-of-images/Article1-634076.aspx|archivedate=4 February 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

== Works ==
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=gFZ7vQ2jwlEC&pg=PP1&dq=Jyotindra+Jain&cd=1 Jaina iconography: Objects of meditation and the Pantheon, Volume 2]''. with Eberhard Fischer. BRILL, 1978. {{ISBN|90-04-05259-3}}.
* ''Painted myths of creation: art and ritual of an Indian tribe''. Lalit Kala Akademi, 1984.
* ''Handwoven fabrics of India'', [[Jasleen Dhamija]], Jyotindra Jain. Mapin Pub., 1989
* ''Ganga Devi: tradition and expression in Mithila painting''. Mapin in association with the Mithila Museum, 1997. {{ISBN|0-944142-33-8}}.
* ''Picture showmen: insights into the narrative tradition in Indian art''. Marg Publications for National Centre for the Performing Arts, 1998. ISBN
8185026394.
* ''Other masters: five contemporary folk and tribal artists of India''. Crafts Museum and the Handicrafts and Handlooms Exports Corporation of India, 1998.
* ''Kalighat painting: images from a changing world''. Mapin Pub., 1999. {{ISBN|1-890206-17-2}}.
* ''Indian popular culture, "the conquest of the world as picture"''. Ajeepay Press, 2004. {{ISBN|81-88896-01-2}}.
* ''India's popular culture: iconic spaces and fluid images''. Marg Publications, 2008. {{ISBN|81-85026-81-5}}.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.sanskritifoundation.org/board.htm# Jyotidra Jain profile, Trustee-Director] at [[Sanskriti Kendra Museum#Sanskriti Foundation|Sanskriti Foundation]]

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