page_title: Navin Doshi
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Navin Doshi / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Navin Doshi with Narendra Modi in 2013
context_page_description: Navin Doshi is an author, scholar, philanthropist, and co-founder of Nalanda International, a non-profit organization.
context_section_description: After his studies, Doshi started working as an aerospace engineer at TRW Inc. He started a bedspread business and made investments in real-estate and other financial instruments.
  In 1999, Doshi with his wife, Pratima Doshi endowed the Doshi Chair of Indian History at UCLA and founded the Sardar Patel Award. In 2006, Doshi endowed a professorship for Indic traditions at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) which also gives a Bridgebuilder Award annually, jointly with Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Theological Studies. He is also a member of the LMU Advisory Board since 2009, the board of directors of South Asian Studies Association and on the board of directors of the Indic Foundation.
  In 2020, Doshi created an endowment to support academic works of SASA and this endowment is attached to the Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology at LMU. 
  In 2012, Doshi established the Haridas Chaudhuri Chair in Indian Philosophies and Cultures and a Doshi professorship in Asian Art at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). In 2019, he established a chair on water and sanitation research, named after his parents, Kanchan and Harilal Doshi, at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.
  In 2019, Doshi received the Doctorate of Peace award from the Maharishi University of Management in Iowa.
caption: Doshi with the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.
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