Sarojini Shankar Vaidya (

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: सरोजिनी शंकर वैद्य) (15 June 1933 – 3 August 2007) was a

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writer and specialist in the society and culture of 19th and 20th-century

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Academic career

Vaidya received her PhD from the

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, submitting a thesis on the Marathi writer Natyachhatakar Diwakar. She later became a professor and head of the University's department of Marathi.

Works

Her works traversed the boundaries of the forms of criticism, the personal essay, short story, biography and autobiography. They include ''Pahatapani'' (1975), a collection of literary essays; ''Mati ani murti'' (1976), a collection of articles on Marathi literature; and a biography of the social thinker Gopalrao Hari, written in 1975. Also in 1975, she edited and completed ''Atmacharitra, ani charitra'', the autobiography of the Marathi writer Kashibai Kanitkar. She later published ''Shabdayan'' (1980), a collection of personal essays; and ''Sankramana'' (1985), a volume of essays on figures including the social reformer

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, the physician Anandi Gopal Joshi. She was also the coauthor of the biographies ''Natavarya Nanasaheb Phatak vyatki ani kala'' (1982), about a

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performer; and ''Shrimati Ramabai Ranade vyatki ani karya'' (1989), about the social worker

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. Volumes edited by Vaidya include ''Sanjeevani'' (1958), ''Jara javoon yeto (Selected stories of D. B. Mokashi)'' (1987), ''Vangamayeen mahatta'' (1990), '' T. S. Eliot and Modern

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and Literary Criticism'' (1990), ''Streejivan vatchal ani vikas'' (1992), and ''Samagra Divakar'' (1992).

Bibliography

As author

* ''Pahatapani'' (1975) * ''Mati ani murti'' (1976) * ''Shabdayan'' (1980) * ''Natavarya Nanasaheb Phatak vyatki ani kala'' (1982, coauthored with Vasant Phatak) * ''Sankramana'' (1985) * ''Shrimati Ramabai Ranade vyatki ani karya'' (1989, coauthored with M. S. Vidhvansa) *''Kahāṇī Laṇḍanacyā Ājībāīñcī'' (2001)

As editor

* ''Sanjeevani'' (1958) * ''Jara javoon yeto (Selected stories of D. B. Mokashi)'' (1987) * ''Vangamayeen mahatta'' (1990) * '' T. S. Eliot and Modern

and Literary Criticism'' (1990) * ''Streejivan vatchal ani vikas'' (1992) * ''Samagra Divakar'' (1992)

References

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