Noboru Karashima

Noboru Karashima (Japanese辛 岛 升, Noboru Karashima; born April 24, 1933) is a Japanese Orientalist with a focus on South Asia, writer, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Books (selection)

• Kingship in South Indian History
• A concordance of the names in Cola inscriptions
• History and society in South India

Awards

• Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize (1995 )
• Person with special cultural merits (2007)
• Padma Shri (2013 )