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K. N. Sitaram (1889–1940) was the first Indian to head the fCentral Museum, Lahore, Pakistan, as successor to John Lockwood Kipling. His contribution to Indian history and arts were outstanding. He had a large personal collection of Indian arts and artifacts which he gave to Central Museum, Lahore. He travelled widely, and was involved in re-indexing the artifacts at Buckingham Palace, London. Sitaram claimed to know 21 languages. He was conferred the title of Pandit since he was an authority in Sanskrit. He was a native of Ambasamudram, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu state of India. During his educational tenure at Kings' College, Oxford, in early 1920s, where he did his Ph. D in History, Dr. Sitaram married an English lady Ms. Ethel. They had a son Krishna Sitaram, born in May 1925. Growing differences between Ethel and Sitaram was them divorced, though Krishnan Sitaram continued his correspondence with Dr. Sitaram until he died in September 1940. By which time, Dr. Sitaram had married the daughter of the eldest son of Zamorin of Calicut, Kerala. He had two sons by this marriage, Ramachandran and Chandrashekar. ==Works== K. N. Sitaram had strong beliefs concerning Indo-Iranian ties from Vedic times. His article ''Iranian Influence on Indian Culture'' was published by the journal of the K. R. Cama Oriental Institute in 1923. There he referred to passages in the Vedas, the 18 Puranas and ''Zend Avesta'', pointing out similarities in names, places and rituals which resembled each other. He created his own school holding that Pallavas of Tamil Nadu were originally from Pahlavis of Iran. He also brought out a book ''The Zoroastrian Magi in the Bhavishya Purana'' published by the Zoroastrial Historical Conference Committee. Two other articles by Sitaram are ''Indian Art & English Friends'' published in The Indian Review brought out by The Theosophical Society, Adayar in December 1925 and 'Dramatic Dance Representations in South India' published by Royal Asiatic Society in April 1922. Image:Ethel.jpg|Ms. Ethel Image:Krishna Sitaram.jpg|Mr.Krishan Sitaram 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「K. N. Sitaram」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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