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The early Marathi literature emerged during the Seuna (Yadava) rule, because of which some scholars have theorized that it was produced with support from the Yadava rulers. [4] The Yadavas did regard Marathi as a significant language for connecting with the general public, [ 5 ] and Marathi replaced Kannada and Sanskrit as the dominant language ...
Bakhar is a form of historical narrative written in Marathi prose. Bakhars are one of the earliest genres of medieval Marathi literature. [1] More than 200 bakhars were written in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, the most important of them chronicling the deeds of the Maratha ruler Shivaji.
GA, who bought new strength and vitality to the Marathi short story, is admittedly the most distinguished exponent of that genre. A contemporary of Gangadhar Gadgil, Arvind Gokhale and Vyankatesh Madgulkar, he did not subscribe to the cause of modernism in literature. He charted his own separate course and cultivated new acuity and taste for a ...
As an author of Leela Charitra, Mhaimbhat is considered to be the first known prose writer in the Marathi language. [1] The language of Leela Charitra invokes some academic interest as it documents the language spoken by common Marathi people of the 13th century.
[citation needed] The Encyclopedia of Indian Literature considers it as Marathi's first representative literary body. The Parishad arranges annual conferences [ 1 ] runs Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika a Marathi quarterly, provides a reference library, conducts qualifying examinations in Marathi language and literature and classes for non-Marathi ...
His Marathi poems of the 1950s and 1960s are written "in the Bombay argot of the migrant working classes and the underworld, part Hindi, part Marathi, which the Hindi film industry would make proper use of only decades later". [5] For instance, consider the following, which intersperses Hindi dialect into the Marathi:
Trimbak Bapuji Thombre (IAST:Trimbak Bāpūji Thombare; 13 August 1890 – 5 May 1918), (known popularly as Balkavi or Balkavi Thombre), was a Marathi language poet from Jalgaon district of Maharashtra, India. [1]
Yadav was one of the early writers of Marathi Gramin Sahitya (literature pertaining to rural life in Maharashtra). His novel "Zombi" (झोंबी) (meaning "fight against all odds") won a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1990. The novel is an autobiographical story of a young boy, his loving mother, his life of utter poverty, and his eagerness to ...