Narayan Sitaram Phadke
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Narayan Sitaram Phadke(1894–1978) was a writer fromMaharashtra,India.wrote in his nativeMarathias well as English.
Early life and family[edit]
Narayan Phadke was born to Sitaram Phadke and his wife in the town ofKarjat, Ahmadnagar districtin 1894. He had a Master of Arts degree fromBombay University.In later years as a writer, Phadke was commonly known by his first and middle initials in Marathi, 'Na si'. Phadke married twice. With his first wife, he had four children. Later he married one of his students, Kamala, who became a prolific writer. The couple had three children. After separation from his first wife, he continued to support her and their children. A daughter from the first marriage later wrote about the silent but terrible suffering of her mother who being relatively uneducated could not articulate herself and having been brought up in conservative value system chose to suffer in silence.
Career[edit]
He worked from 1919 to 1920 as an assistant editor of theMarathanewspaper.
He was a professor of Philosophy and Psychology atRajaram CollegeinKolhapurfrom 1926 to 1951. For many years in that period, he also editedRatnakar,Zhankar,andAnjalimagazines. After his retirement, he settled in the city ofPunein Maharashtra, continuing to write.
Literary career[edit]
Allaha Ho Akbarwas Phadke's first novel. He wrote about 150 books, including 74 novels, 27 collections of short stories, 22 reviews, 7 plays,[1]and the autobiographicalMaje Jeevan: Ek Kadambari.His work included fiction as well non-fiction. Although most of his work was in Marathi, he also wrote in English. For many years he also publicly feuded with another well known Marathi author, AcharyaPralhad Keshav Atre.Phadke presided over theMarathi Sahitya Sammelanheld inRatnagiriin 1940. The Indian government honoured him with thePadmabhushan,India's third-highest civilian award, in 1962 for his literary accomplishments.[2]
Advocate of birth control and eugenics[edit]
In the 1920s, Phadke strongly advocated birth control, andEugenicsto control population in India. He hadMargaret Sanger,an American birth control advocate, write the foreword for his book published in 1927 on the subject called, Sex problem in India.[3]He contributed to the journalBirth Control Review.[4]
A partial list of books[edit]
- Kalankshobha
- Allaha Ho Akbar(1917) - Marathi translation of the novel, temporal power byMarie Corelli[5]
- Daulat
- Jadugar
- Uddhar
- Akherache Band
- Pravasi
- Shonan
- Asman
- Toofan
- Majha Dhram
- Indradhanushya
- Sarita Sagar
- hak
- Niranjan
- Atakepaar
- Ved Vaare
- Zanzavat
- Jeddamal
- Uujadle pn surya kothe aahe?
- Maze Jeevan: Ek Kadambari (autobiography)[6]
- Sex Problem in India: Being a Plea for a Eugenic Movement in India and a Study of All Theoretical and Practical Questions Pertaining to Eugenics[7]
- Where Angels Sell Eggs, and Other Stories in English[8]
References[edit]
- ^Natarajan, Nalini, ed. (1996).Handbook of twentieth century literatures of India(1. publ. ed.). Westport, Conn, USA: Greenwood Press. pp. 221–223, 246.ISBN9780313287787.
- ^"Padma Awards"(PDF).Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015.Retrieved21 July2015.
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- Phadke, N.S., 1927. Sex Problem in India: Being a Plea for a Eugenic Movement in India and a Study of All Theoretical and Practical Questions Pertaining to Eugenics. DB Taraporevala Sons & Company.
- Ahluwalia, Sanjam (2008).Reproductive restraints: birth control in India, 1877-1947.Ranikhet: Permanent Black. pp. 33–34.ISBN9788178242293.
- ^James H. Mills; Satadru Sen; Acting Assistant Professor of South Asian History Satadru Sen (2004).Confronting the Body: The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-colonial India.CONFERENCE Representing The Body in Col. Anthem Press. p. 200.ISBN978-1-84331-032-7.
- ^Shafquat Towheed (1 October 2007).New Readings in the Literature of British India, c. 1780-1947.Lightning Source. p. 239.ISBN978-3-89821-673-9.
- ^Satchidanandan, K. “REFLECTIONS: Thinking of Autobiography.” Indian Literature, vol. 45, no. 2 (202), 2001, pp. 5–12. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23344674. Accessed 17 Aug. 2020.
- ^Phadke, N.S., 1927. Sex Problem in India: Being a Plea for a Eugenic Movement in India and a Study of All Theoretical and Practical Questions Pertaining to Eugenics. DB Taraporevala Sons & Company.
- ^Jain, S.K., 1969. A Select Bibliography of Indian Short Stories and Historical Fiction in English. Indian Literature, pp.76-92.
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