Suryakant Pawar grew up in an influential family in Baramati, Pune, his brother, Sharad, going on to be President of the Nationalist Congress Party and of the International Cricket Council. Suryakant gained a Bachelor’s degree and qualified as an architect, also taking a Diploma in Town Planning. He enrolled at the Architectural Association, London, in September 1960, listed as attending ‘lectures only’ within the Department of Tropical Architecture’s six-month post-graduate course. Auditing the course in this manner meant that Pawar was not eligible for a Tropical Certificate. Following graduation, Pawar remained an AA member and lived for at least a decade in the Runcorn area of Cheshire. He appears to have set up his own architectural practice in India and by the mid-1990s was operating in Pune under the name of ‘Suryakant Pawar and Associates, Architects & Planners’, and developed multiple business interests, working within the property development field.

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• Architectural Association Student Register, 1960-61. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Membership Register, 1969, 1971
• Architectural Association Journal, Vol. LXXVI, No. 849, February 1961, p215
• Bakshi, S.R., Sharma, S.M., Gajrani, S. Sharad Pawar, the Maratha Legacy. APH Publishing Corporation, 1998, p129