D. K. Taknet

D. K. Taknet
Born (1958-04-11) 11 April 1958 (age 66)
Shekhawati, Rajasthan, India
NationalityIndian
EducationUniversity of Rajasthan (MPhil)
Occupations
  • Historian
  • biographer

D. K. Taknet (born 11 April 1958, in Shekhawati) is an Indian historian and biographer, best known for his books Industrial Entrepreneurship of Shekhawati Marwaris (1986), B. M. Birla: A Great Visionary (1996), Jaipur: Gem Of India (2013), and The Marwari Heritage (2015), which cover the history and culture of Rajasthan, particularly that of the Marwari people and the Birla family. He has a Master of Philosophy from the University of Rajasthan.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ Hardgrove, Anne Elizabeth (1999). Community as Public Culture in Modern India: The Marwaris in Calcutta C. 1897-1997. University of Michigan. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-599-39743-9.
  2. ^ Kamath, M. V. (1995). Gandhi's Coolie: Life & Times of Ramkrishna Bajaj. Allied Publishers. p. 4. ISBN 978-81-7023-487-6.
  3. ^ Dattagupta, Rupak (2001). Classes and Elites in the Third World. p. 104. ISBN 978-81-7273-078-9.
  4. ^ Mainstream. Vol. 33. N. Chakravartty. 1995. p. 27.
  5. ^ Library of Congress Office (May 1996). Accessions List, South Asia. New Delhi: E.G. Smith for the U.S. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi. p. 7.
  6. ^ Indian Books in Print. Indian Bureau of Bibliographies. 2003. p. 62.