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Mangharam Udharam MAlkani
Born December 24, 1896Hyderabad, Sindh
Died December 1, 1980(1980-12-01) (aged 83) Occupation(s) Sindhi scholar, playwright
Mangharam Udharam Malkani , December 24, 1896 – December 1, 1980) was a renowned Sindhi scholar, critic, writer, playwright, literary historian and professor. 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 December 24, 1896 at Hyderabad in the landlord family of Shri Udhavdas 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 the Lecturer of English. He was the president of Sindhi Sahit Mandal (Sindhi literary Society). After the partition of Indian subcontinent , 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.
He founded Sindhi Adabi Sangat .[8]
Death
He died on December 1, 1980.
References
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^ "35th death anniversary of the pioneer of modren Sindhi dramas Mangharam Malkani today" . The Sindh Times . Retrieved May 25, 2016 .
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1968–1980
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)
1981–2000
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)
2001–present
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)
Honorary Fellows Premchand Fellowship Ananda Coomaraswamy Fellowship