[1] As a scholar, he published extensively and authored and edited several books and essays on a variety of subjects, including archaeology, architecture, Buddhism, literature, music, Sanskrit, sculpture, and administration.
Sohoni was honoured with many awards and a festscrift recognised him as one of the founders of the Academy of Indian Numismatics and Sigillography.
[4] Shridhar Vasudev Sohoni was born in a Chitpavan Brahmin family in Agargule in Ratnagiri district.
in Economics at the University of Bombay, and studied Indo-Greek and Gupta history under Father Henry Heras.
in Economics and History and passed the examinations with a Distinction in First Class (having won the Kanade Prize, Bai Dayakonwar Brijbhukhandas scholasrhip, K.T.
[8] He played a very important role in ensuring that the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library was retained in India after partition.
Between 1964 and 1966, he was appointed the Honorary Vice-chancellor of Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University, and was later the chairman of the World Buddhist Conference in Bodhgaya in 1972.
[14] His second son Shrinivas Sohoni entered the Indian Administrative Service in 1970, was the Secretary-General of the Rajya Sabha and retired as Secretary to the President of India.