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'''Madhuri Ratilal Shah''' was an Indian educationist, writer<ref name="Google Books profile">{{cite web | url=https://www.google.ae/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Madhuri+R.+Shah%22 | title=Google Books profile | date=2015 | access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref> and the chairperson of the [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]].<ref name="Higher Education in India Since Independence: UGC and Its Approach">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5giny6Ng0q0C&q=Madhuri+Ratilal+Shah&pg=PA31 | title=Higher Education in India Since Independence: UGC and Its Approach | publisher=Concept Publications | author=Om Prakash Gupta | year=1993 | pages=312 | isbn=9788170224471}}</ref><ref name="Development of Adult, Continuing and Non-formal Education in India">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qotm3f_-iZgC&q=Madhuri+Ratilal+Shah&pg=PA288 | title=Development of Adult, Continuing and Non-formal Education in India | publisher=Concept Publishing | year=2002 | pages=447 | isbn=9788170229360}}</ref><ref name="Development of Education in India">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vKsVPua_E6sC&q=Madhuri+Ratilal+Shah&pg=PA308 | title=Development of Education in India | publisher=Concept Publishing | date=1986 | access-date=23 June 2015 | author=S. P. Agrawal | pages=936 | isbn=9788170220664}}</ref> She was the chairperson of the ''UGC Review Committee on University System'' set up in 1985.<ref name="Second Historical Survey of Educational Development in India">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TlUZhJ10kY4C&q=Madhuri+Ratilal+Shah&pg=PA175 | title=Second Historical Survey of Educational Development in India | publisher=Concept Publishing |author1=S. P. Agrawal |author2=J. C. Aggarwal | year=1990 | pages=460 | isbn=9788170223702}}</ref> She also worked as the Education Officer of the [[Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation|Mumbai Municipal Corporation]].<ref name="Bombay Teachers and the Cultural Role of Cities">{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bBG_QmivOWgC&q=Madhuri+Ratilal+Shah&pg=PR7 | title=Bombay Teachers and the Cultural Role of Cities | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield | date=2015 | access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref>

==Publications and awards==
Madhuri Shah authored many books on education and poetry,<ref name="Google Books profile" /> including ''Without Women, No Development: Selected Case Studies from Asia of Nonformal Education for Women'',<ref name="Without Women, No Development: Selected Case Studies from Asia of Nonformal Education for Women">{{cite book | title=Without Women, No Development: Selected Case Studies from Asia of Nonformal Education for Women | publisher=Commonwealth Secretariat | author=Madhuri Shah | year=1986 | pages=149 | isbn=978-0850922837}}</ref> ''Towards exploring some aspects of the relationship between education and creation of employment opportunities'',<ref name="Towards exploring some aspects of the relationship between education and creation of employment opportunities: ">{{cite book | title=Towards exploring some aspects of the relationship between education and creation of employment opportunities | publisher=Gujarat Research Society | author=Madhuri Shah | year=1986 | asin=B0007BAWL4}}</ref> ''Symphony: A Book of Poems''<ref name="Symphony: A Book of Poems">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fxmpcg2aMtkC&q=Madhuri+Ratilal+Shah | title=Symphony: A Book of Poems | publisher=Allied Publishers |author1=Madhuri R. Shah |author2=Ramesh Mohan }}</ref> ''Challenges to Higher Education in a Changing India'',<ref name="Challenges to Higher Education in a Changing India">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VH4lHAAACAAJ | title=Challenges to Higher Education in a Changing India | publisher=Forum of Free Enterprise | author=Madhuri Shah | year=1985}}</ref> ''Instruction in education: Teaching technology''<ref name="Instruction in education: Teaching technology">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nGI-cgAACAAJ | title=Instruction in education: Teaching technology | publisher=Somaiya Publications | author=Madhuri Shah | year=1974 | pages=151}}</ref> and a series by name, ''Radiant English Workbook''<ref name="Radiant English Workbook 3">{{cite book | url=http://www.sarasavi.lk/Book/Radiant-English-Workbook-3-1400001011 | title=Radiant English Workbook 3 | publisher=Allied Publishers | author=Madhuri Shah | date=July 2001 | isbn=9781400001019}}</ref> are some of her notable works.

She was awarded the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] by the [[Government of India]] in 1977.<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Padma Shri |date=2015 |access-date=18 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref> Her life has been documented in the book, ''Harmony: glimpses in the life of Madhuri R. Shah'', published in 1985, containing several of her interviews.<ref name="Harmony: glimpses in the life of Madhuri R. Shah">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lbw2AAAAIAAJ | title=Harmony: glimpses in the life of Madhuri R. Shah | publisher=Allied Publishers |author1=Madhuri R. Shah |author2=Suresh Parshottamdas Dalal |author3=Kallolinī Hajharata | year=1985 | pages=277| isbn=9780836418262 }}</ref>

==See also==
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* [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]]
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{{portal|India|Education}}

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book | title=Without Women, No Development: Selected Case Studies from Asia of Nonformal Education for Women | publisher=Commonwealth Secretariat | author=Madhuri Shah | year=1986 | pages=149 | isbn=978-0850922837}}
* {{cite book | title=Towards exploring some aspects of the relationship between education and creation of employment opportunities | publisher=Gujarat Research Society | author=Madhuri Shah | year=1986 | asin=B0007BAWL4}}
* {{cite book | title=Symphony: A Book of Poems | publisher=Allied Publishers |author1=Madhuri R. Shah |author2=Ramesh Mohan }}
* {{cite book | title=Challenges to Higher Education in a Changing India | publisher=Forum of Free Enterprise | author=Madhuri Shah | year=1985}}
* {{cite book | title=Instruction in education: Teaching technology | publisher=Somaiya Publications | author=Madhuri Shah | year=1974 | pages=151}}
* {{cite book | title=Radiant English Workbook 3 | publisher=Allied Publishers | author=Madhuri Shah | date=July 2001 | isbn=9781400001019}}

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