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Pratapaditya Pal
Indian-American art historian and curator
Pratapaditya Pal is an Indian scholar of Southeast Asian and Himalayan art and culture, specializing particularly in the history of art of India, Nepal and Tibet.
He has served as a curator of South Asian art at several prominent US museums including Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, where he has organized more than 22 major exhibitions and helped build the museums' collection .
He has also written over 60 books and catalogs, and over 250 articles on the subject, taught at several universities, and served as the editor of the Indian art magazine, Marg.[1] In 2009 he was awarded Padma Shri by the Government of India for his contributions to the study of Indian art.[2]
Early life and education
Pal was born in Bengal, British India and received his early schooling in Shillong, Darjeeling and Calcutta.[3] Studying at the