Mansukh Prabhulal Joshi

Mansukh Prabhulal Joshi was a Gujarati designer and a scholar.

Mansukh Prabhulal Joshi was a Gujarati designer and also a scholar. He was born in Junagadh in 1922. He received a diploma in Dramatics from the Natya Academy, Bombay, before studying stagecraft at the Bristol Old Vic in England. He has designed sets and lights for Parsi, Marathi, and Gujarati theatre. As an archivist, he has documented the folk arts of western India, established the Indian National Theatre`s Research Centre for Performing Arts in Gujarat, and collected an exhaustive corpus of video and audio recordings. Mansukh Prabhulal Joshi died in 2000.

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