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'''Kapil Kapoor''' (born 17 November 1940) is an Indian scholar of [[linguistics]] and [[literature]] and an authority on Indian intellectual traditions.<ref>{{cite web | title=Uberoi Foundation ~ 2011 Experts Meeting | url=http://uberoireligiousstudies.org/2011-experts-meeting/presenters.html | accessdate=10 February 2013 | publisher=Uberoi Foundation | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120703064715/http://www.uberoireligiousstudies.org/2011-experts-meeting/presenters.html | archive-date=3 July 2012 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He is former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]] (JNU) and served as professor at the Centre for Linguistics and English, and at the Centre for Sanskrit Studies there before retiring in 2005.<ref>{{cite web | title=Dr. Kapil Kapoor | url=http://www.aurouniversity.edu.in/KAPIL.htm?height=400&width=600 | accessdate=10 February 2013|publisher=Auro University}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Alternative Education Paradigm | url=http://tibethouse.in/content/alternative-education-paradigm | accessdate=10 February 2013|publisher=Tibet House}}</ref> He is Editor-in-Chief of the 11-Volume ''[[Encyclopedia of Hinduism]]'' published by [[Rupa & Co.]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Reviews/Hinduism-is-an-intellectual-system-not-religion/Article1-899317.aspx|title=Hinduism is an intellectual system, not religion|publisher=[[Hindustan Times]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130423060143/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Reviews/Hinduism-is-an-intellectual-system-not-religion/Article1-899317.aspx|archivedate=23 April 2013|url-status=dead|accessdate=10 February 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

== Career ==
Kapil Kapoor has been teaching for fifty-two years; 41 scholars worked for PhD and 36 for M.Phil. under him. He was Dean of the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, JNU, from 1996–1999 and Rector (Pro-Vice-Chancellor) of the University from 1999–2002.

In 2018, he was appointed chairperson of [[Indian Institute of Advanced Study]] (IIAS) at Shimla. Previously, he was Chancellor of [[Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya]] at [[Wardha]].

His teaching and research areas include literary and linguistic theories, both Indian and Western, the [[philosophy of language]], nineteenth century British life, literature and thought and Indian intellectual traditions. He has written and lectured extensively on these themes. He retired from JNU in 2005.

== Books published ==
*''Semantic Structure and the Verb: A Propositional Analysis'', 1985, New Delhi: Intellectual Publishers.<ref>{{cite web|title=Catalog record: Semantic structure and the verb : a propositional analysis / Kapil Kapoor|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000482635|publisher=HathiTrust Digital Library|accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
*''Grading Criteria for Neo-Literate Materials'' (Co-author, Prof. Mushtaque Ahmad), 1987, New Delhi: Jamia University Press.<ref>{{cite web|title=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|url=http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|publisher=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|accessdate=10 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000326/http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''English in India'', ed. (Co-editor, Dr. R. S. Gupta), 1991, New Delhi: Academic Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|title=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|url=http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|publisher=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|accessdate=10 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000326/http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''Language, Linguistics and Literature: The Indian Perspective'', 1994, New Delhi: Academic Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|title=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|url=http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|publisher=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|accessdate=10 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000326/http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''South-Asian Love Poetry'', ed. (Co-editor, Dr. S. K. Sareen),1994, New Delhi: Affiliated East-West Press.<ref>{{cite web|title=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|url=http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|publisher=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|accessdate=10 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000326/http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''Canonical Texts of English Literary Criticism with Selections from Classical Poeticians'', ed. (Co-editor, Mrs. Ranga Kapoor), 1995, New Delhi: Academic Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|title=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|url=http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|publisher=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|accessdate=10 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000326/http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''Literary Theory: Indian Conceptual Framework'' (with glossary in collaboration with Nalini M. Ratnam), 1998 New Delhi: Affiliated East-West Press.<ref>{{cite web|title=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|url=http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|publisher=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|accessdate=10 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000326/http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''Dimensions of Panini Grammar'', 2005, DK Print World, New Delhi.<ref>{{cite web|title=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|url=http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|publisher=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|accessdate=10 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000326/http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''Text and Interpretation. The Indian Tradition'', 2005, DK Print World, New Delhi.<ref>{{cite web|title=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|url=http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|publisher=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|accessdate=10 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000326/http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''Indian Knowledge Systems'', Edited (A.K.Singh, Co-editor), 2005, DK Print World, New Delhi.<ref>{{cite web|title=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|url=http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|publisher=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|accessdate=10 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000326/http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''Sanskrit Studies, Vol.1.'', (ed.) Journal of the Centre of Sanskrit Studies, JNU, New Delhi. 2005 DK Print World, New Delhi.<ref>{{cite web|title=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|url=http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|publisher=D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd|accessdate=10 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000326/http://www.dkprintworld.com/authorinformation.php?userId=138|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''Rati Bhakti: Bharat Ki Katha Parampara Me''. [Hindi], 2011, Daya Publishing House, New Delhi.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rati Bhakti Bhartiya Katha Parampara Mein : 9788124605943|url=http://www.egully.com/products/Rati-Bhakti-Bhartiya-Katha-Parampara-Mein--by-Kapil-Kapoor.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130409014334/http://www.egully.com/products/Rati-Bhakti-Bhartiya-Katha-Parampara-Mein--by-Kapil-Kapoor.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 April 2013|publisher=Egully|accessdate=10 February 2013}}</ref>
*''[[Encyclopedia of Hinduism|Encyclopedia of Hinduism Vols.1–11]]'', Editor-in-Chief, 2012, Rupa & Co.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Reviews/Hinduism-is-an-intellectual-system-not-religion/Article1-899317.aspx|title=Hinduism is an intellectual system, not religion|publisher=[[Hindustan Times]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130423060143/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Reviews/Hinduism-is-an-intellectual-system-not-religion/Article1-899317.aspx|archivedate=23 April 2013|url-status=dead|accessdate=10 February 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

== Books under publication ==
Two of his books, ''Abhinavagupta: Manuscripts'' and ''Irish-Indian Anthology'' (with Professors Welch and Mac Mathuna of the University of Ulster, UK, as co-editors) are under publication. Another book ''Concept and Taxonomy of Knowledge in History of Science, Culture and Civilization'', D.P.Chattopadhyaya, General Editor, in the Volume edited by Professor G.C.Pande is also under publication as of February 2013. Kapoor is also working on ''Encyclopedia of Indian Poetics'', as Chief Editor, under a [[Sahitya Akademi]] Project.

== Monographs ==
*''Indian Tradition of Language Studies and Contemporary Relevance''. Anand: HM Patel Institute of English, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, 1998.
*''Knowledge, Individual and Society in Indian Traditions''. Chandigarh: Saini Memorial Foundation Lecture, Panjab University, 2002.

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