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{{Short description|Indian naturalist, military physician and surgeon (1844–1911)}}
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'''Atmaram Sadashiv Grandin/Grovindin Jayakar''' (1844–1911), known also as '''[[Muscat]]i''', was an Indian [[naturalist]], [[military physician]], and [[colonial administrator]] in the [[British Empire]].<ref name="BeolensWatkins2009">{{cite book|author1=Bo Beolens|author2=Michael Watkins|author3=Michael Grayson|title=The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-kSmWLc6vYC&pg=PA211|accessdate=18 August 2020|date=18 November 2009|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-9533-3|page=211}}</ref> Jayakar, who was of [[Marathi people|Marathi]] [[Pathare Prabhu]] origin, began his studies in [[British India|India]] where he earned his [[Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery]], and then went to England to complete his medical studies. Later, he returned to India to work in the [[Indian Medical Service]], in which he ultimately achieved the rank of [[lieutenant colonel]]. In 1873, he was sent by the [[British Empire]] to the Sultanate of [[Muscat and Oman]] (an Arab country that was under a British [[protectorate]]) to deal with the health of the people of [[Muscat]], in which capacity he also served as a personal physician to Sultan [[Turki bin Said]]. He was the acting [[List of British representatives in Muscat and Oman|political agent]] from 2 March 1889 to 30 March 1889, and again from 29 March 1890 to 30 November 1890, and the acting [[consul (representative)|consul]] from 14 October 1891 to 27 November 1892, again from 19 April 1895 to 22 May 1895, and yet again from 12 June 1897 to 15 September 1897.

Stationed in Oman, he then began to take an interest in animal life, and for nearly thirty years studied and identified many species, including a species of [[tahr]] which now bears his name, ''[[Arabitragus jayakari]]'', as well as twenty-two new species of fish (including the eponymous ''[[Hippocampus jayakari]]''), two species of snakes (including the eponymous ''[[Eryx jayakari]]''), as well as lizards (including the eponymous ''[[Omanosaura jayakari]]'') and [[invertebrate]]s (including the eponymous ''[[Hottentotta|Hottentotta jayakari]]''). He also made contributions to [[linguistics]], contributing a two-part grammatical sketch and lexicon of [[Omani Arabic]], "The O'mánee Dialect of Arabic", to the ''[[Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society]]'' in 1889, and a grammatical sketch of [[Shihhi Arabic]], "The Shahee dialect of Arabic", to ''The Journal of the [[Bombay]] Branch of the [[Royal Asiatic Society]]'' in 1904, as well as a collection titled ''Omani Proverbs'' in 1900 (published posthumously as a book in 1987). He also contributed to Indian government publications with medical reports such as a "Medical Topography of Muscat" in 1877, and a "Report on the Recent Epidemic of Cholera in Maskat and Matrah" in 1900.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hobbs |first1=Mark |title=A Polymath in Muscat |url=https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2014/08/a-polymath-in-muscat.html |website=bl.uk |publisher=The British Library |accessdate=18 August 2020}}</ref>

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