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List Of Gujarati-language Writers
Well known laureates of Gujarati literature are Hemchandracharya, Narsinh Mehta, Mirabai, Akho, Premanand Bhatt, Shamal Bhatt, Dayaram, Dalpatram, Narmad, Govardhanram Tripathi, Mahatma Gandhi, K. M. Munshi, Umashankar Joshi, Suresh Joshi, Pannalal Patel and Rajendra Keshavlal Shah. List A B C D E F G H I J K L M N P R S T U V Y Z {{List of writers Writers Gujarati Gujarati Gujarati may refer to: * something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India * Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat * Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them * Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gujarati Literature
The history of Gujarati literature ( gu, ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય) may be traced to 1000 AD, and this literature has flourished since then to the present. It is unique in having almost no patronage from a ruling dynasty, other than its composers. Gujarat Vidhya Sabha, Gujarat Sahitya Sabha, Gujarat Sahitya Akademi and Gujarati Sahitya Parishad are Gujarat-based literary institutions promoting the Gujarati literature. History Such factors as the policies of the rulers, the living style of the people, and the worldwide influence on society are important for any literature to flourish. In Gujarat, due to the development of trade and commerce, the religious influence of Jainism as well as Hinduism, and also due to the safety and encouragement of rulers like Chaulukya (Solanki) and Vaghela Rajputs, literary activities were in full force from the 11th century. * Gujarati literature ** Early literature (up to 1450 AD) *** Prāg-Narsinh Yug (1000 AD to 1450 AD) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdulgani Dahiwala
Abdulgani Abdulkarim Dahiwala (1908-1987), popularly known as Gani Dahiwala was a Gujarati poet. Life Abdulgani Dahiwala was born on 17 August 1908 at Surat. He came to Ahmedabad in 1928 but later returned to Surat in 1930 when he started a tailor shop. He established the music group ''Swarsangam'' in Surat. Later he was a founding member of Mahagujarat Gazal Mandal in 1942. He wrote satirical poetry in the ''Gujarat Mitra'' daily published from Surat. He traveled to Pakistan in 1981 under Cultural Exchange Scheme set by Government of India. He died on 5 March 1987. Works ''Gata Zarana'' (1953), ''Mahek'' (1961), ''Madhurap'' (1971), ''Ganimat'' (1971) and ''Nirant ''(1981) are collections of different genres of poetry such as songs, ghazal, ''Muktaka'' (single stanza poetry). ''Jashne Shahadat'' (1957) is Hindi musical play based on Indian Rebellion of 1857. ''Pehle Maale'' is his three act play staged in 1959-60 but never published. All of his poems have published as ''Hoy Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anandshankar Dhruv
Anandshankar Bapubhai Dhruv (25 February 1869 – 7 April 1942) was a Gujarati scholar, writer, educationist and editor from Gujarat, India. His name is revered as 'Acharya' (a learned person) in Gujarat, and hence generally he is known as Acharya Anandshankar Dhruv. Life Dhruv was born in Ahmedabad on 25 February 1869. His father was an officer of Kathiawar Agency and worked as an agent of Baroda State after retirement. He studied in English medium schools and learned Sanskrit at early age. While studying Master of Arts, he started teaching Sanskrit at Gujarat College in 1893. Later he taught at Elphinstone College for some years. He was appointed a Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University in 1920. He performed the opening ceremony of The Modern School at Sicka Nagar, Bombay in 1936 established by Ramanbhai and Pushpaben Vakil. He was also a chairman of Inter University Board. He died on 7 April 1942. Works His pen-names were Mumukshu and ''Hind-hitchintak''. He headed sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anandghan
Anandghan was a 17th-century Jain monk, mystical poet and hymnist. Though very little is known about his life, his collection of hymns about philosophy, devotion and spirituality in vernacular languages are popular and still sung in Jain temples. Life There is no historical information available about life of Anandghan. The majority of information is based in hagiographies and oral history. He was born in Rajputana (now Rajasthan, India). His dates differs according to sources. Generally 1603 or 1604 is accepted but he could have born before 1624 according to some estimation.Bangha and Fynes 2013: xxvii–xxx His childhood name was Labhanand. He was initiated as Jain monk and named Labhavijay. He might belonged to Tapa Gaccha branch of Murtipujaka Svetambara Jainism but Jain monastic hierarchy does not mention him. He might have lived as ascetic not associated with any organized ascetic branches. He stayed in the area of present-day north Gujarat and Rajasthan in India. Legends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amrutlal Yagnik
Amrutlal Bhagwanji Yagnik was Gujarati critic, biographer, essayist, editor and translator. Life Amrutlal was born on 8 August 1913 at Dhrangadhra. He completed his education until matriculation from Dhrangadhra. He completed B. A. in 1936 and Masters in Arts in 1939 in English and Gujarati from Samaldas College. He worked as a part-time lecturer in Ramnarayan Ruiya College from 1939 to 1940 and later as a full-time lecturer of Gujarati from 1940 to 1960. He also served as the founder principal of K. J. Somaiya College, Ghatkopar, Mumbai from 1960 to 1961. He later served as the principal of Mithibai College. Works His works are chiefly associated with education, literature and social culture. His critical writing is collected in ''Chidghosh'' (1971). ''Mukhad Kya Dekho Darpan Mein'' (1979) is work on education and society. He wrote short biographies of Kishorelal Mashruwala (1980) and Gulabdas Broker (1983) under ''Gujarati Granthkar Shreni''. ''Jagagangana Vehta Neer'' (1970), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amrut Ghayal
Amrutlal Laljee Bhatt (1916–2002), better known by his pen name Amrut Ghayal, was a Gujarati language poet from India. Life Amrutlal Bhatt was born in Sardhar near Rajkot on 19 August 1916 to Lalji Bhatt and Santokben. He studied up to seventh standard in Sardhar. He served as a personal secretary of prince of Pajod state, a small princely state of Saurashtra, Khan Imamuddin Babi aka Ruswa Mazlumi, from 1938 to 1948. He passed matriculation in 1949 and joined Bachelor of Arts from Dharmendrasinhji Arts College, Rajkot but left studies after first year. He joined public works department of Rajkot in 1949 as an accountant and was retired in 1973. He settled in Rajkot following his retirement. He died on 25 December 2002 at Rajkot. Works His pen name ''Ghayal'' literally means ''wounded''. Already being a good scholar of Urdu and Persian poetry, Amrit Ghayal flourished into an outstanding Ghazal poet of Gujarati by 1940 once he started writing the Gujarati poetry. His poetry is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amritlal Vegad
Amritlal Vegad (3 October 1928 – 6 July 2018) was a noted Gujarati and Hindi language writer and painter living in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. Biography Amritlal was born to Govamal Jivan Vegad, who was a railway contractor hailing from village Kumbhariya in Kutch belonging to a small but enterprising Mestri community of Kutch. Govamal Jivan settled in Jabalpur, while working as railway contractor for Bengal Nagpur Railway laying railway lines in Gondia – Jabalpur section in year 1906 with fellow Mistri contractors. Education Amritlal Vegad did his studies from Visva Bharati University at Shantiniketan and was trained under able teachers like Nandalal Bose, during the years 1948 to 1953, from whom he learned to appreciate nature & its beauty. He was trained in water colours but he painted also in oil colours. After coming back to Jabalpur, he joined as teacher at Institute of Fine Arts in Jabalpur. His story written as a students project, while studying at Shantin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amrit Keshav Nayak
Amrit Keshav Nayak (14 April 1877 – 18 July 1907) was a Parsi theatre actor-director, lyricist and Gujarati author. He joined theatre at early age and later directed several plays including adaptations of plays of Shakespeare. He wrote plays and novels also. Biography Early life Nayak was born in Ahmedabad on 14 April 1877 (Vaishakh Shukla 1 Vikram Samvat 1933) to Nayak family. He lived in Mata ni Pol in Kalupur area of the city. He studied only four grades and two grades in Urdu. Nayak moved to Bombay with his father. Theatre and lyricist career In 1888, he joined Alfred Company at the age of eleven at the salary of forty rupees a month. After his successful roles of Baheram Irani and Pumba in Bamanji Kabraji's ''Gamde ni Gori'' (Village Nymph, 1890) and ''Bimar-e-Bulbul'' respectively, he went to Lucknow to study theatre under Bindadin Maharaj. He learned music there. After his return in 1891, he directed ''Allauddin'' and played Laila himself whose success elevated him to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambulal Purani
Ambulal Balkrishna Purani (26 May 1894 – 11 December 1965) was an Indian writer. He was a prominent disciple and biographer of Sri Aurobindo. Life and work Purani was born on 26 May 1894 in Surat (now in Gujarat, India). A nationalist activist as a young man, in 1923 he joined Sri Aurobindo Ashram on being convinced by Sri Aurobindo that he need not worry about the freedom of India as it was sure to come in time. He was a personal attendant to Sri Aurobindo from 1938 to 1950. His work, most notably ''The Life of Sri Aurobindo'' and ''Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo'', constitutes one of the main sources on the life and sayings of this guru. He travelled extensively to give lectures on the yogic teaching of Sri Aurobindo, visiting the United States in 1962. Some of the lectures are available in book form which include major works like ''Savitri'' and the ''Life Divine''. His ''Evening Talks'' throws a major light on the personality of the great master Sri Aurobindo and his mult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambalal Sakarlal Desai
Ambalal Sakarlal Desai (25 March 1844 – 12 September 1914) was a Gujarati writer, translator, lexicographer, and judge from British India. Desai was born in Alina near Nadiad in Kheda district and was one of the first Gujarati students to graduate from Bombay University, receiving an MA and LLB (1870) after which he worked as a teacher. In 1876 he became a judge at Baroda and in his spare time he edited a periodical against child marriage called ''Bal-Lagna Nishedh Patrika''. In 1889 he became chief justice and was decorated Diwan Bahadur in 1900. He worked for Indian industrialists, supporting the Swadeshi movement, and supported women's education. He wrote what has been considered as the first original Gujarati short story ''Shantidas'' (1900). See also * List of Gujarati-language writers Well known laureates of Gujarati literature are Hemchandracharya, Narsinh Mehta, Mirabai, Akho, Premanand Bhatt, Shamal Bhatt, Dayaram, Dalpatram, Narmad, Govardhanram Tripathi, Mahatma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Kinloch Forbes
Alexander Kinloch Forbes (7 July 1821 – 31 August 1865) was a colonial administrator in British India. Early life Forbes was born in London on 7 July 1821 to John Forbes-Mitchell (1786-1822) of Thainston and Ann Powell (m. 1809 d. 1861). He was the youngest among six siblings. He was christened on 9 August 1821 at St. Mary, St. Marylebone, London. He was educated at a school in Finchley. He articled to George Basevi, an architect, for eight months but later joined a college Haileybury as he was appointed to Bombay Civil Service by Sir Charles Forbes in 1840. He left it in 1842 and arrived in Bombay, India in November 1843. Administrative career Forbes was appointed in 1842 to the Civil Service of the East India Company, later moved to Bombay in 1843. He spent his initial two and half years as Assistant Collector of Ahmednagar and Khandesh. Later he was appointed as Assistant Judge in Ahmedabad in November 1846 where he noted the absence of literary society. He served in diff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akshay Ramanlal Desai
Akshay Ramanlal Desai (26 April 1915 – 12 November 1994) was an Indian sociologist, Marxist and a social activist. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology in University of Bombay in 1967. He is particularly known for his work ''Social Background of Indian Nationalism'' in which he offered a Marxist analysis of the genesis of Indian nationalism making use of history, which set a path to build socialism in India. Biography Desai was born in Nadiad (now in Gujarat). His father Ramanlal Desai was a Gujarati writer, novelist and civil servant of the Baroda State who inspired him to study and explore facts of human society. While still a teenager, Desai took part in the student movements in Surat, Baroda and Bombay. He was active in farmers' and labor movements and became the editor of bulletins and newspapers of the All India Kisan Sabha (1932–1937). As a political activist, he joined the Communist Party of India (1934) and Trotskyist Revolutionary Socialist P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
