Narmadashankar Dave ('Narmad')

Recently, Prime Minister paid tributes to Narmadashankar Dave on his 187th birth anniversary.

  • He was born on 24th August 1833 in Surat.
  • He was a Gujarati poet, playwright and social reformer.

Contribution/Initiative

  • He is considered to be the founder of modern Gujarati literature.
  • His famous literary work includes magazine, Dandio.

Contemporaries

  • Ramanbhai Neelkanth (1868-1928): He was a Gujarati novelist, essayist, literary critic and politician from India. The Ramanlal Nilkanth Hasya Paritoshik is named after him. He was famous for his humour novel Bhadrambhadra (1900), which was a satire on language and social puritans. It is influenced by The Pickwick Papers and ....
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