Vaman Malhar Joshi

Vaman Malhar Joshi (Devanagari: वामन मल्हार जोशी) (January 21, 1882 – July 20, 1943) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.

Vaman Malhar Joshi should not be confused with the playwright Waman Gopal (Veer Wamanrao) Joshi. They were contemporaries.

Joshi was born on January 21, 1882 in the town of Tale in the Konkan region of Maharashtra. After finishing his high school education in 1900, he studied at Deccan College in Pune to receive his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1904 and 1906, respectively.

Joshi served thereafter for a few years as a teacher in a nationalistic high school. (India was under British Raj in those times.) Since 1908, he also served as the editor of a nationalistic monthly Wishwa Wrutta (विश्ववृत्त). Soon after 1908, British authorities imposed a three-year imprisonment with hard labor on him for the “crime" of publishing in Wishwa Wrutta some "inflammatory" articles suggesting overthrow of the British rule.

After release from the prison, Joshi worked for two years as the editor of Lokamanya Tilak's daily Kesari (केसरी). In 1918, he joined the teaching staff of the Women's University which Bharat Ratna Dhondo Keshav Karve had founded two years earlier, (first as a women's college). He taught philosophy, psychology, and English and Marathi literature at the university. Later he became the principal of the university.

Joshi presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Margao, Goa in 1930.

Literary work

• Ragini (रागिणी) (1914)
• Ashramharini (आश्रमहरिणी) (1916)
• Nalini (नलिनी) (1920)
• Indu Kale Va Sarala Bhole (इंदु काळे व सरला भोळे) (1934)
• Sushilecha Dev (सुशीलेचा देव)
• Smruti-Lahari (स्मृति-लहरी)
• Neeti-Shastra-Pravesh (नीतिशास्त्रप्रवेश)

References

• Waman Malhar Joshi (Book by Govind Malhar Kulkarni)
• Va. Ma. Joshi Sahitya-Darshan (Book edited by Waman Lakshman Kulkarni and Govind Malhar Kulkarni)