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{{Short description|Indian author, historian and researcher}}
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| name = Sharada Dwivedi.
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| birth_name = Sharada
| birth_date = {{tooltip|c.|circa}} 1942
| birth_place = [[Mumbai]], [[India]]
| death_date = 6 February 2012 (aged 69-70)
| death_place = Mumbai, India
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| other_names = dwivedi
| known_for = Historical books
| education = queen mary school
| alma_mater = [[Sydenham College]]
| employer = artician
| occupation = Art and Architecture Historian
| years_active = 69 to 70
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'''Sharada Dwivedi''' ({{tooltip|c.|circa}} 1942 – 6 February 2012) was an Indian author, historian and researcher. She wrote several books on the history and culture of both India and Mumbai (formerly Bombay).<ref>[https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL105861A/Sharada_Dwivedi Books authored by Sharada dwivedi]</ref> She was on the panel on the [[Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee]].<ref name="Heritage conservation">{{Cite web |url=http://www.mcgm.gov.in/irj/go/km/docs/documents/MCGM%20Department%20List/City%20Engineer/Deputy%20City%20Engineer%20(Planning%20and%20Design)/City%20Development%20Plan/Heritage%20Conservation.pdf |title=Heritage conservation |access-date=22 August 2015 |archive-date=22 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122110329/http://www.mcgm.gov.in/irj/go/km/docs/documents/MCGM%20Department%20List/City%20Engineer/Deputy%20City%20Engineer%20(Planning%20and%20Design)/City%20Development%20Plan/Heritage%20Conservation.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Among her most famous work was ''Bombay, the Cities Within'' (1995).<ref name="arch">{{cite web|url=http://www.bmpix.org/visip_rahul/bio.htm|title=Architecture - A Visual Interpretation of Photos taken by Rahul Mehrotra tecture from the Basel Mission Picture Archive|accessdate=2008-10-23 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080714033809/http://www.bmpix.org/visip_rahul/bio.htm  |archive-date = 2008-07-14}}</ref> She had great fascination for [[Victorian era|Victorian-era]] Mumbai and later in her life, she developed a great affection for the city's [[art deco]] stylings.

==Education==
Sharada Dwivedi completed her schooling at [[Queen Mary School, Mumbai]], in Mumbai, and then graduated from the [[Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics]] from the [[University of Mumbai]]. She follow this with a degree in [[Library Science]] from the same university and with training in reference work in Paris.<ref name="arch" />

==Conservation work==
Dwivedi was involved in several conservation projects in Mumbai and served as a member of the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee.<ref name="Heritage conservation"/> She was a member of the Executive Committee of the Urban Design Research Institute<ref>[http://www.udri.org/ URBAN DESIGN RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Mumbai, India ]{{Dead link|date=February 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> the KALA GHODA ASSOCIATION,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kalaghodaassociation.com/ |title=Kalaghoda association |access-date=22 August 2015 |archive-date=17 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417023334/http://www.kalaghodaassociation.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and was a consultant to the Bombay Collaborative.<ref name="arch" /><ref>[http://rmaarchitects.com/collaboration/bombay-collaborative/ THE BOMBAY COLLABORATIVE]</ref> In the early 1990s, disgruntled with how authors were not being paid equitably, she started her own publishing company, Eminence Designs Pvt. Ltd., which has gone on to publish over 30 titles on a variety of subjects from Bombay history, art and architecture to cookery, beauty, and film. Her book ''Almond Eyes & Lotus Feet'', authored with Shalini Devi Holkar, was subsequently published by Harper Collins in the US.

==Death==
Dwivedi died on 6 February 2012 in Mumbai, India after a brief illness.<ref>[http://mumbaiboss.com/2012/02/07/sharada-dwivedi-death-of-a-chronicler/ Sharada Dwivedi: 'Death of a Chronicler', FEBRUARY 7, 2012 9:40 AM BY MICHAEL EDISON HAYDEN] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601051617/http://mumbaiboss.com/2012/02/07/sharada-dwivedi-death-of-a-chronicler/|date=1 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/historian-sharada-dwivedi-passes-away/article2867112.ece|title=Historian Sharada Dwivedi passes away|date=2012-02-07|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-06-21|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
Dwivedi's writings covered subjects such as art, architecture, interiors, heritage, conservation and the traditions of cuisine and beauty.<ref name="arch" />
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Book title
!Author(s)
!Publisher
!ISBN
|-
| 1995
| ''Bombay, the Cities Within''
|
|[[India Book House]]
|{{ISBN|978-8185028804}}
|-
| 1996
| ''Banganga, Sacred Tank''
|
|Eminence Designs
|
|-
| 1999
|''Fort walks: Around Bombay's Fort area''
|
|Eminence Designs
|{{ISBN|978-8190060233}}
|-
| 2000
| ''Anchoring a City Line the History of the Western Suburban Railway and its Headquarters in Bombay''
|with [[Rahul Mehrotra]]
|Eminence Designs
|{{ISBN|8190060244}}
|-
|2000
|''Maharaja and the Princely States of India''
|
|Roli Books
|{{ISBN|978-8174360816}}
|-
| 2002
|''The Jehangir Art Gallery: established 21 January 1952''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nZIOAQAAMAAJ|title=The Jehangir Art Gallery: established 21 January, 1952|last1=Mehrotra|first1=Rahul|last2=Dwivedi|first2=Sharada|date=2002|publisher=Jehangir Art Gallery|language=en|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
|with Rahul Mehrotra
|[[Jehangir Art Gallery]]
|
|-
| 2002
|''The Victoria Memorial School for the Blind: Founded 14 February 1902''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=onDaAAAAMAAJ|title=The Victoria Memorial School for the Blind: Founded 14 February 1902|last1=Dwivedi|first1=Sharada|last2=Mehrotra|first2=Rahul|date=2002|publisher=Victoria Memorial School for the Blind|language=en|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
|with Rahul Mehrotra
|Victoria Memorial School for the Blind
|
|-
|2003
|''The Automobiles of the Maharajas''
|
|Eminence Designs
|{{ISBN|978-8190060288}}
|-
|2006
|''[[Premchand Roychand]] (1831-1906), His Life and Times''
|
|Eminence Designs
|{{ISBN|978-8190382113}}
|-
| 2007
|''Almond Eyes, Lotus Feet, Indian Traditions in Beauty and Health''
|with [[Shalini Devi Holkar]]
|[[William Morrow and Company]]
|{{ISBN|978-0061246531}}
|-
|2008
|''Bombay Deco''
|with Rahul Mehrotra, [[Noshir Gobhai]]
|Eminence Designs
|{{ISBN|9788190382151}}
|}

Dwivedi<ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120318/spectrum/book1.htm Spectrum the Tribune, Sunday, March 18, 2012, Maximum love for Maximum City Michael Edison Hayden]</ref> wrote numerous articles on conservation and urban issues on Mumbai. Among these were:<ref name="arch" />
* ''Lives of the Indian Princes'' (1984) with [[Charles Allen (writer)|Charles Allen]]
* ''Reach for the Stars'' (1993) – the corporate history of Blue Star Ltd
* ''The Broken Flute'' (1994) – a children's novel
* ''The Maharaja'' (1999)
* ''A Celebration of Style'' (2000) Abu Jani & Sandeep Khosla.

== See also ==

* [[Women in the art history field]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPrWWdwjeJE Youtube of An Interview with Sharada dwivedi-part-2]

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