Waman Gopal Joshi (18 March 1881 – 3 June 1956) (popularly known as Veer Wamanrao Joshi), was a

Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people *Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece See also * * ...

journalist, playwright, and freedom fighter, from

Amravati Amravati (pronunciation (help·info)) is the second largest city in the Vidarbha region and ninth largest city in Maharashtra, India. It is administrative headquarters of Amravati district and Amravati division which includes Akola, Buldha ...

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. He was the editor of Rashtramat and Swatantra Hindustan during the freedom struggle of India. He courted arrest and came to be known as Veer Wamanrao Joshi or Veer Vamanrao Joshi. He wrote the play 'RaNa-dundubhi', whose songs were made famous by Dinanath Mangeshkar. Waman Gopal Joshi should not be confused with the writer

Vaman Malhar Joshi Vaman Malhar Joshi (January 21, 1882 – July 20, 1943) was a Marathi writer from Bombay Presidency, British India. Early life Joshi was born in a Deshastha Brahmin family on January 21, 1882 in the town of Tale in the Konkan region of Mahar ...

. They were contemporaries. He was also involved in Satyagraha and kayde bhang movement in Hyderabad free movement.

Literary work

* ''Rakshasi Mahattvakanksha'' (1914) * ''Ranadundubhi'' (1927)

Notes

Indian independence activists from Maharashtra Marathi-language writers 1881 births 1956 deaths Marathi people {{Playwright-stub