Mangharam Udharam Malkani
Mangharam Udharam Malkani | |
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Born | (1896-12-24)24 December 1896 Hyderabad, Bombay Presidency, British India |
Died | 1 December 1980(1980-12-01) (aged 83) Pune, India |
Occupation(s) | Sindhi scholar, playwright |
Mangharam Udharam Malkani (24 December 1896 – 1 December 1980) was an Indian scholar, critic, writer, playwright, literary historian and professor in the Sindhi language. He was the pioneer of modern Sindhi dramas. He was recognized as the "Grand old man of Sindhi literature".[1][2][3][4]
Early life and education
He was born on 24 December 1896 at Hyderabad in the landlord family of Raisahab Udharam Malkani. Prof Malkani led a delegation of Sindhi writers for Asian Writers’ Conference held in 1956 in New Delhi.
Career
He joined D. J. Sindh College, Karachi as lecturer of English. He was the president of Sindhi Sahit Mandal (Sindhi literary Society). After the partition of India, he migrated to India where he joined Jai Hind College, Mumbai.[5]
He wrote more than 22 books.[6][7]
He wrote Sindhi Nasar Ji Tarikh (History of Sindhi Prose) for which he received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1969.[citation needed]
He founded Sindhi Adabi Sangat.[8]
Death
He died on 1 December 1980 in Bombay, India.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "M U Malkani". The Sindhu World. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ "35th death anniversary of the pioneer of modern Sindhi dramas Mangharam Malkani today". The Sindh Times. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ "A few Eminent Sindhi Litterateurs". Muse India. Archived from the original on 17 March 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ Lal, Ananda (2004). "Malkani, Mangharam Udharam". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195644463.001.0001. ISBN 9780195644463. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ "Promoters & Preservers of Sindhyat". Sindhi Sangat. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ "SINDHI" (PDF). Sahitya Akademi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ "Mangharam Udharam Malkani 1896 -". Open Library. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ "HYDERABAD: Dissidents to boycott SAS golden jubilee". DAWN. 15 December 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
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- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1968)
- D. R. Bendre, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Sumitranandan Pant, C. Rajagopalachari (1969)
- Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, Viswanatha Satyanarayana (1970)
- Kaka Kalelkar, Gopinath Kaviraj, Gurbaksh Singh, Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1971)
- Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Mangharam Udharam Malkani, Nilmoni Phukan, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, Sukumar Sen, V. R. Trivedi (1973)
- T. P. Meenakshisundaram (1975)
- Atmaram Ravaji Deshpande, Jainendra Kumar, Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa 'Kuvempu', V. Raghavan, Mahadevi Varma (1979)
- Umashankar Joshi, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, K. Shivaram Karanth (1985)
- Mulk Raj Anand, Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi, Amritlal Nagar, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, Annada Shankar Ray (1989)
- Nagarjun, Balamani Amma, Ashapurna Devi, Qurratulain Hyder, Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte, Kanhu Charan Mohanty, P. T. Narasimhachar, R. K. Narayan, Harbhajan Singh (1994)
- Jayakanthan, Vinda Karandikar, Vidya Niwas Mishra, Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Raja Rao, Sachidananda Routray, Krishna Sobti (1996)
- Syed Abdul Malik, K. S. Narasimhaswamy, Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Rajendra Shah, Ram Vilas Sharma, N. Khelchandra Singh (1999)
- Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar, Rehman Rahi (2000)
- Ram Nath Shastri (2001)
- Kaifi Azmi, Govind Chandra Pande, Nilamani Phookan, Bhisham Sahni (2002)
- Kovilan, U. R. Ananthamurthy, Vijaydan Detha, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, Amrita Pritam, Shankha Ghosh, Nirmal Verma (2004)
- Manoj Das, Vishnu Prabhakar (2006)
- Anita Desai, Kartar Singh Duggal, Ravindra Kelekar (2007)
- Gopi Chand Narang, Ramakanta Rath (2009)
- Chandranath Mishra Amar, Kunwar Narayan, Bholabhai Patel, Kedarnath Singh, Khushwant Singh (2010)
- Raghuveer Chaudhari, Arjan Hasid, Sitakant Mahapatra, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Asit Rai, Satya Vrat Shastri (2013)
- Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa, C. Narayana Reddy (2014)
- Nirendranath Chakravarty, Gurdial Singh (2016)
- Léopold Sédar Senghor (1974)
- Edward C. Dimock, Jr., Daniel H. H. Ingalls Sr., Kamil Zvelebil, Ji Xianlin (1996)
- Vassilis Vitsaxis, Eugene Chelyshev (2002)
- Ronald E. Asher (2007)
- Abhimanyu Unnuth (2013)
- Intizar Hussain (2005), Kishwar Naheed (2016)
- Senake Bandaranayake, Chie Nakane, Azad N. Shamatov (1996)