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, occupation = Author, scholar, philanthropist , years_active = 1958–present , era = , employer = , organization = , agent = , known_for = , notable_works = , style = , height = , television = , title = , term = , predecessor = , party = , movement = , opponents = , boards = , criminal_charge = , criminal_penalty = , criminal_status = , spouse = Pratima Doshi , partner = , children = , parents = , mother = , father = , relatives = , family = , callsign = , awards = , website = , module = , module2 = , module3 = , module4 = , module5 = , module6 = , signature = , signature_size = , signature_alt = , footnotes = Navichandra Harilal "Navin" Doshi (born 1936) is an author, scholar, philanthropist, and co-founder of Nalanda International, a

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Early life and education

Doshi was born in

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, India into a

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family. He eventually moved to

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. Doshi completed his undergraduate studies at the

, and received his

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degree from the L.D. Engineering College of

, before moving to the U.S. in 1958. In the U.S., Doshi attended

, Ann Arbor, to complete his Master's in

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and then

for his

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program.

Career

After his studies, Doshi started working as an

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He started a bedspread business and made investments in real-estate and other financial instruments. In 1999, Doshi with his wife, Pratima Doshi endowed the Doshi Chair of Indian History at UCLA and founded the Sardar Patel Award. In 2006, Doshi endowed a professorship for Indic traditions at

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(LMU) which also gives a Bridgebuilder Award annually, jointly with Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Theological Studies. He is also a member of the LMU Advisory Board since 2009, the board of directors of South Asian Studies Association and on the board of directors of the Indic Foundation. In 2020, Doshi created an endowment to support academic works of SASA and this endowment is attached to the Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology at LMU. Navin Doshi with Narendra Modi

In 2012, Doshi established the Haridas Chaudhuri Chair in Indian Philosophies and Cultures and a Doshi professorship in Asian Art at

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(CIIS). In 2019, he established a chair on water and sanitation research, named after his parents, Kanchan and Harilal Doshi, at the

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. In 2019, Doshi received the Doctorate of Peace award from the

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in Iowa.

Awards & Honors

*''2023 Honored by the President and Board of Trustees of Maharishi International University for establishing The Doshi Center for Maharishi Ayurveda and Integrative Health.'' *''2017
Exemplar Community Service Award
presented by the board of directors of South Asian Studies Association (SASA), Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California.'' *''2019 Doctorate of Peace Award from the

, Iowa City, Iowa.'' *''2023 Honored by the President and Board of Trustees of the Maharishi International University for establishing the Doshi Center of Maharishi Ayurveda and Integrative Health.'' *''2023 Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Indo-American Senior Heritage Foundation, Artesia, California.''

Books

*''Saving Us from Ourselves'', 2005 – *''Transcendence: Saving Us From Ourselves'', 2009 – *''Economics and Nature: Essays in Balance'', Complementarity and Harmony, 2012 – *''Light With No Shadow: My Life Bridging Two Cultures'', 2016 – *''Gold Incarnate Sun Gold'', 2019 –

Bibliography

*''South Asian Studies: Bridging Cultures, A Felicitation Volume to Celebrate the Life and Work of Navin Doshi, edited by Deepak Shimkhada'', 2020 –

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Doshi, Navin American writers of Indian descent 1936 births Living people American people of Gujarati descent Indian emigrants to the United States People from Bhavnagar