Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar (1909–2001) was an Indologist and Vedic scholar from Maharashtra, India.
He joined Fergusson College in Pune in 1933 as a professor of Sanskrit and Ancient Indian Culture.
In 1936, he went to Germany for further studies and received his doctoral degree from Heidelberg University in 1938 for his thesis Der Vedish Mensh.
In 1964, he became the Director of the Center of Advanced Study in Sanskrit at the University of Poona, and served in that capacity until 1974.
Dandekar received many honors and awards, including the Padmabhushan title in 1962 from the President of India,[1] and a Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2000.