Bharati Shelat

Bharati Kirtikumar Shelat (30 July 1939 – 2018) was an Indian archaeologist from Gujarat. She spent most of her career at B. J. Institute of Learning and Research, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Bharati Shelat was born on 30 July 1939 in Mehsana. She completed her SSC in 1956 from R.B.M.K. Girls High School, Ahmedabad. She received a BA in 1960 from Gujarat College, Ahmedabad with Sanskrit major and Psychology minor, and received a MA in 1962 from B. J. Institute, Ahmedabad with Sanskrit (Epigraphy) major and Ardhamagadhi minor. She obtained PhD in 1969 from B. J. Institute for her doctoral dissertation, The Chronological Systems of Gujarat. In 1972, she received again a M.A. in Sociology from Texas Woman's University. Shelat started her career as a lecturer of Sanskrit and Ardhamagadhi at S. V. Arts College, Ahmedabad in 1964, and served there till 1969. In 1976, she joined B. J. Institute as a lecturer of Indian culture, philosophy and Sanskrit literature, and later became there a reader and post graduate teacher (1982–1997), and then, professor and director (1997–2006). She served as a director of Gujarat Research Society, Ahmedabad.