Sambodhi 1994 Vol 19

SR No.: 520769
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jitendra B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 182
Language: English, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Sambodhi, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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OBITUARY
Mr. Karl J. Khandalavala, Bar at Law, Bombay, left us in the last week of December 95. He was a patient of artharitis and had problem with his knees. It was reported that he had a fall in the bathroom and therefore was admitted to hospital. His end came as a result of heart attack. His wife Mehaubai had passed away last year. Both of them died issueless.
He had his early education in Elphinston College, Bombay and then he obtained Bar-at-Law from London. Soon le rose to the positions of Chief Presidency Magistrate, a Senior Supreme Court Advocate with some distinguished criminal cases to his credit such as the Nanavati Murder Case, the Shah Commission, and Vikroli Murder Case against Datta Samant.
He was a man of varied interests, and started his career as a Navigator in the Royal Indian Air Force during the world War II. A few years later he became a lawyer, and rose to the highest position in his profession.
As a young man his interests in Indian Painting and arts were nurtured by the then patron and private collector of Bombay, called B. N. Treasugwala and others. He started writing art reviews in the Times of India. He was not only a keen student of antiquarian subjects but possessed good knowledge of the contemporary painting. It is here that he came in contact with the works of Amrita Sher Gil and they became great friends. His monograph on Sher Gil was his first publication. His knowledge and personality gradually gained a prestigious position in the art field on the one hand and in the legal profession on the other.
In 1953 lie becaine the Trustee of the Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay and thereafter remained a Chairman of the Board of Trustees until quite recently. He was also the Chairman of the Exhibit Purchase Committees of the National Museum New Delhi, The Chandigarh Museum, Simla Museum and also the Prince of Wales Museum. His scholarly pursuits bore fruits when he came in contact with Dr. Moti Chandra, the then Director of the Prince of Wales Museum an equally important doyen of Indian Art.
He was a strict contemporary of a galaxy of renowned scholars like Anand Coomaraswami, Rai Krishna Das, V. S. Agrawala, C.Sivaramamurthi, Dr. Moti Chandra, P. M. Joshi and others.