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Friends and family paid final respects to art historian Kavita Singh who was cremated here on Monday..
A former dean at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, Kavita was well known for her presence in the discipline of art history in South Asia...
The award citation read, The Infosys Prize...is awarded to Singh for her extraordinarily illuminating study of Mughal, Rajput and Deccan art and her insightful writing on the historical function and role of museums...
Singh received BA (Hons) in English literature from Lady Shri Ram College, MFA in art history from MS University, Baroda and PhD in art history from Panjab University in 1996...
Acclaimed author William Dalrymple termed the loss as the saddest tweeting, Kavita did so much to educate us all on obscure recesses of Indian art history...
