Sudhakar Chaturvedi

Sudhakar Chaturvedi () (died 27 February 2020)Many recent newspaper accounts are consistent with an 1897 date, but the biographical sketch in Seunarine's book mentioned below gives a date of 4 April 1901 was an Indian Vedic scholar, Indologist, and alleged supercentenarian.

At the claimed age of 122 years, 313 days, some Indian newspapers reported him as the oldest Indian ever. One report also claimed an age of 121 in 2011, which would put his birth in 1890. Chaturvedi was a contemporary of Mahatma Gandhi, whom he first met when studying the Vedas in a gurukula in northern India.

Chaturvedi died on 27 February 2020, at the claimed age of 122.Centenarian scholar Sudhakar Chaturvedi passes away

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