C. Krishna Gairola Indian and Asian Art and Architecture Slides, 1956-1999

C. Krishna Gairola was born in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. He received an M.A. in history from the University of Allahabad, India, in 1946 and a Ph.D. in Indian history and archaeology from the University of London in 1949. He studied art history and completed a diploma de l’ecole at the School of the Louvre, Paris, in 1953. After working for the embassy of India and the Indian Foreign Service in Switzerland and New Delhi, he accepted a position as professor and department head at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India, in 1962. Gairola also worked as a journalist for the Hindustan Times and Week End Review in New Delhi before immigrating to the United States in 1967. In the United States, Gairola held professorships at Kansas State University, the University of Washington, and Virginia Commonwealth University, before retiring in 1987. Among many honors he received was the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, awarded by the German government, as well as fellowships from the French government and the Smithsonian Institution. Gairola died July 2003.