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Sahitya Akademi Award for Marathi Award for contributions to Marathi literature Awarded for Literary award in India Sponsored by Sahitya Akademi, Government of India Reward(s) ₹ 1 lakh (US$1,200) First awarded 1955 Last awarded 2022 Highlights Total awarded 68 First winner Lakshman Shastri Joshi Most Recent winner Praveen Dashrath Bandekar Website Official website Part of a series on Sahitya ...
Shabdasrishti (Gujarati: શબ્દસૃષ્ટિ, romanized: Śabdasr̥ṣṭi, lit. 'World of Words'), the journal of the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi, is a Gujarati literary magazine, published on the fifth of every month.
Deshmukh (IAST:Dēśamukh) is a historical title conferred to the rulers of a Dēśamukhi. It is used as a surname in certain regions of India, especially in the states of Maharashtra , Karnataka and Telangana and also in Andhra Pradesh and northern parts of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat , Goa whose family received it as a title.
In 1912, Deshmukh passed the Matriculation Examination of the University of Bombay with record marks and secured the first Jagannath Shankarseth Scholarship in Sanskrit. [9] In 1915 he went to England and graduated with a degree in Natural Sciences Tripos from Jesus College, Cambridge in 1917. He was awarded the Frank Smart Prize in Botany and ...
John Zephaniah Holwell, who from 1732 onwards spent 30 years in India and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767, described the Puranas as "18 books of divine words". [106] British officials and researchers such as Holwell, states Urs App, were orientalist scholars who introduced a distorted picture of Indian literature and Puranas as ...
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi paying floral tributes to Nanaji Deshmukh, on the Birth Centenary Celebrations of Nanaji Deshmukh, at IARI, New Delhi on 11 October 2017 Nanaji was born on 11 October 1916 into a Marathi -speaking Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin family [ 3 ] [ 4 ] at Kadoli , which is a small town in the Hingoli district ...
Divya Deshmukh (born 9 December 2005) is an Indian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster and International Master. [2] She is a three-time gold medalist at the Olympiad . Deshmukh has also won multiple golds at the Asian Championship , the World Junior Championship as well as the World Youth Championship .
Durgabai Deshmukh was then elected to the Constituent Assembly from the Madras Province. She was the only woman in the panel of chairmen in the Constituent Assembly. She proposed Hindustani (Hindi+Urdu) as the national language of India but also expressed fear about the forceful campaign for Hindi in South India. [ 16 ]