Anant Kakba Priolkar was an Indian polemicist, author and political activist. Born in 1895, he started writing while he was in school and his writing stopped only with his death. He was also elected as the President of the
Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (All India Marathi Literary Conference) is an annual conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra State. The first Marathi Sahitya Sammelan was he ...
held in 1951 at
Karwar
Karwar is a seaside city, ''taluka'', and administrative headquarters of Uttara Kannada district lying at the mouth of the Kali river on the Kanara coast of Karnataka state, India.
Karwar is a popular tourist destination and with a city urba ...
.
His book ''
The Goa Inquisition'' remains his bestselling work on account of it being pro-Hindu. He also considered
Konkani as a dialect of
Marathi language
Marathi (; ''Marāṭhī'', ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the official language of Maharashtra, and additional official language in the state o ...
. He died in
Maharashtra
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in 1973.
Bibliography
* ''The Printing Press in India: Its Beginnings and Early Development being a quatercentenary commemoration study of the advent of printing in India in 1556''. Bombay: Marathi Samshodhana Mandala, 1958.
* ''
The Goa Inquisition (A Quatercentenary Commemoration Study of the Inquisition in India'', printed by V. G. Moghe at Mumbai University Press, Mumbai) (1961)
*''Granthik Marathi Bhashya Ani Kokani Boli'' (ग्रान्थिक मराठी भाषा आणि कोकणी बोली).
*"French Author of a Marathi Purana, Fr. Etienne de la Croix." Journal of the University of Bombay n.s. 29/2 (1959) 122–149.
*''Goa Re-discovered''. Bhakta Books International, 1967.
* Priya Ani Apriya (प्रिय आणि अप्रिय)
References
*Tadkodkar, S.M.
h.D. on A.K. Priolkar submitted to the Goa University.*Ludo Rocher, The Puranas. A History of Indian Literature, vol. 2, fasc. 3. (Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 1986) 75.
*Preface by J.S. Sukhtankar and Subhash Bhende to A.K. Priolkar's "Hindustanche Don Darwaje", published by 'The Goa Hindu Association' (
Mumbai
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) in 1974.
20th-century Indian historians
Marathi people
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