K. N. Sitaram

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rdf:langString K. N. Sitaram (1889–1940) was the first Indian to head the Central Museum, Lahore, British India (now 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 the early 1920s, where he did his Ph.D. in history, 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.