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{{Short description|Architectural historian}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}}
{{use Indian English|date=February 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| image = MadhusudanDhakyPic.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|7|31|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Porbandar]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2016|7|29|1927|7|31}}
| death_place = [[Ahmedabad]], Gujarat, India
| occupation = Architectural and art historian
}}
'''Madhusudan Amilal Dhaky''' (31 July 1927 – 29 July 2016) was an architectural and art historian from [[Gujarat]], [[India]]. He had written extensively on Indian temple architecture, [[Jain literature]] and art.<ref name="Cort Dhaky, 2004 p=800">{{cite journal | last=Cort | first=John E. | last2=Dhaky | first2=Madhusudan Dhanki | title=Nirgranth Aitihasik Lekh-Samuccay | journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society | volume=124 | issue=4 | pages=800–802 | year=2004 | doi=10.2307/4132129 | jstor=4132129 }}</ref>

==Life==
Dhaky was born on 31 July 1927 in [[Porbandar]], [[Gujarat]]. He completed his primary and secondary education at Porbandar. He received his surname from his native Dhank village near Porbandar.<ref name="GS2016">{{cite news | title=ભારતીય દેવાલયના વિશ્વકર્મા|author=Kumarpal Desai|author-link=Kumarpal Desai|publisher=Gujarat Samachar|url=http://www.gujaratsamachar.com/gujaratsamachar.com/20120506/purti/ravipurti/parijat.html | date=7 August 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807040817/http://www.gujaratsamachar.com/gujaratsamachar.com/20120506/purti/ravipurti/parijat.html |archive-date=7 August 2016| language=gu | access-date=7 August 2016}}</ref><ref name="YouTube 2016">{{cite web | title=Oral History: MA Dhaky, in conversation with Parul Pandya Dhar | website=YouTube | date=9 May 2016 | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfn6aOXoQjg | access-date=10 May 2016}}</ref> He graduated in [[geology]] and chemistry from [[Fergusson College|Ferguson College]], [[Pune]]. He worked with Central Bank for brief period. He had worked for three years in field of horticulture. In 1951, he established Archeology Research Group in Porbandar.<ref name="GS2016"/> He had researched [[Indian classical music]] also. He was married to Geetaben.<ref name="dna 2011">{{cite web | title=Dhanki Saheb gets Gujarat literature's top award | website=dna | date=20 November 2011 | url=http://www.dnaindia.com/ahmedabad/report-dhanki-saheb-gets-gujarat-literature-s-top-award-1615118 | access-date=25 February 2016}}</ref> He served as the director of research at the Centre for Art and Archaeology at the [[American Institute of Indian Studies|American institute of Indian Studies]] in [[Gurgaon]] from 1976 to 1996 and the Director Emeritus, Research till 2005 at the same institute.<ref name="YouTube 2016"/> He had also contributed to the construction of the modern [[Somnath temple]].<ref name=gsz>{{cite news|url=http://www.gujaratsamachar.com/index.php/articles/display_article/temple-architectural-researcher-madhusudan-dhanki-dies|title= મંદિર સ્થાપત્ય કલાના સંશોધક મધુસૂદન ઢાંકીનું નિધન|language=gu|website=[[Gujarat Samachar]]|date=30 July 2016|access-date=1 August 2016}}</ref><ref name="Shastri 2016">{{cite web | last=Shastri | first=Parth | title=Prof who immortalized temple architecture passes away | website=The Times of India | date=31 July 2016 | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Prof-who-immortalized-temple-architecture-passes-away/articleshow/53480922.cms | access-date=1 August 2016}}</ref>

He died on 29 July 2016 at his residence at [[Naranpura]], [[Ahmedabad]] after brief illness.<ref name="Shastri 2016"/><ref name=gsz/>

==Works==
He had written extensively on architectural and art history, especially Indian temple architecture. He had written 25 books, 325 research papers and 400 articles.<ref name=gsz/> He has written several works on [[Jain literature]]. He is known for his fourteen volume work, ''Indian Temple Architecture''.<ref name="Shastri 2016"/>

His books include ''The Embroidery and Bead work of Kutch and Saurashtra'' (1966),<ref name="GS2016"/> ''The Riddle of the Temple of Somanātha'' (1974), ''The Indian temple forms in Karṇātạ inscriptions and architecture'' (1987), ''Encyclopaedia of Indian temple architecture'' with Michael Meister, ''The Indian temple Traceries'' (2005), ''Complexities Surrounding the Vimalavasahī Temple at Mt. Abu'' (1980), ''Arhat Pārśva and Dharaṇendra nexus'', ''Nirgranth Aitihāsik Lekh-Samuccay'', ''Professor Nirmal Kumar Bose and His Contribution to Indian Temple Architecture: The Pratiṣṭhạ̄-Lakṣaṇasamuccaya and the Architecture of Kaliṅga'' (1998), ''The Temples in Kumbhāriyā'' (2001), ''Saptaka'' (1997), ''Shani Mekhla'' and ''Tamra Shashan'' (2011). The last two were fiction.<ref name="dna 2011"/><ref name="GS2016"/>

==Awards==
He had received the Campbell Memorial Gold Medal awarded by the [[Asiatic Society of Bombay]].<ref name="YouTube 2016"/> He had also received [[Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak]] in 2010. He had also received [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2010.<ref name="dna 2011"/><ref name="Shastri 2016"/> He had also received [[Kumar Chandrak]] in 1974<ref name="GS2016"/> and Uma Snehrashmi Prize.<ref name="divyabhaskar 2011">{{cite web | title=મધુસૂદન ઢાંકીનું રણજિતરામ સુવર્ણચંદ્રકથી સન્માન | website=Divyabhaskar | date=20 November 2011 | url=http://www.divyabhaskar.co.in/news/MGUJ-gold-medal-honour-to-madhusudan-dhanki-2578168.html | language=gu }}</ref> He was awarded lifetime achievement award by Gujarat Itihas Parishad.<ref name="toi2013">{{cite web | title=Baroda archaeologist awarded | website=The Times of India | date=15 January 2013 | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/Baroda-archaeologist-awarded/articleshow/18038550.cms }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Gujarati-language writers]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://projectanveshan.com/a-meeting-with-our-mentor/?print=print On Project Anveshan]

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