[INDOLOGY] In memoriam: Professor Mandakranta Bose

Thu Sep 17 02:57:05 UTC 2026

Friends

Learning of the passing of .Mandakranta Bose fills me with great sadness. I came to know her primarily through the annual SACPAN gatherings at the University of Washington and at UBC. Her scholarly achievements will be acknowledged by many scholars and her worm personality will be remembered as a treasure.

Frank Conlon
Professor emeritus
University of Washington

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Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] In memoriam: Professor Mandakranta Bose

My wife Sally and I are severe sorry to learn of Mandakranta’s passing. She was a dear colleague and an old friend. We collaborated with her on a number of conferences and edited publications. Shr was a fine scholar of the Rāmāyaṇanand a fount of knowledge about Indian literature and the arts.

Our deepest  condolence to her family.

Dr. R.P. Goldman
William and Catherine Magistretti Professor of Sanskrit Emeritus
and
Professor in the Graduate School
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
The University of California at Berkeley

On Sep 16, 2026, at 12:16 PM, Shubham Arora via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

It is with great sadness that I share the news of the passing of Professor Mandakranta Bose, Professor Emerita at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and Senior Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, on September 10, 2026.

Professor Bose was a distinguished scholar of Sanskrit and South Asian religions whose wide-ranging scholarship encompassed the Sanskrit textual traditions of the performing arts, Sanskrit literature, the Rāmāyaṇa, Hindu traditions, and gender studies. She had a lifelong love of Indian classical dance and was herself an accomplished dancer. Trained in Sanskrit and Hindu religious texts in Calcutta, comparative literature in Vancouver, and Sanskrit textual studies at Oxford, she taught religious and gender studies at UBC and served as Director of its Centre for India and South Asia Research. She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain.

On a personal note, I had the privilege of knowing Professor Bose at UBC, and I will always remember her warmth, her kindness, and our long conversations over chā. Manda mashi, you'll be dearly missed.

My deepest condolences to Professor Bose’s family, students, colleagues, and all those who knew and learned from her.

Shubham

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