Shravan Kumar Goswami was a prominent writer and scholar of

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of North India, northern, Central India, centr ...

and

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. He was professor of Hindi at

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. He was awarded Radhakrishna Award for his Hindi novel ''Jangal Tantram''.

Life

Early life

He was born on 19 January 1938 in

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. He completed graduation from Bihar University in 1958. He completed Master of Arts from

in 1961.

Career

He was Lower Divisional clerk in

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. He started his teaching career at

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in Ranchi in 1962. He completed his Ph.D. in Ranchi University by publishing ''Nagpuri aur uska shist Sahitya'' in 1970. He was the first person to do research on Nagpuri literature and get Ph.D. He wanted to establish career in nagpuri but he didn't given much important so started teaching Hindi. After Doronda College, he started teaching Hindi in Ranchi University from 1985. He had written many books including ''Jangal Tantram'', ''Chakravihyu'', ''Mere Marne Ke Bad'', ''Bharat banam India'', ''Hastkhep Kendra aur Paridhi'', ''Ek tukda Sach'', ''Setu'', ''Rahu Ketu'', ''Darpan Jhut Na Bole'', ''Kahani ek Netaji ki wa Pariksha'' etc. For ''Jangal Tantram" he received Radhakrishna Award. His written Nagpuri grammar book ''Nagpuri Vyakran'' taught in Ranchi University. He was writer of Nagpuri drama ''Teteir kar Chhaon'' which was broadcast on

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Ranchi from July to December 1958. He wrote ''Ek chhoti si nagri ki lambi kahani'', the history of Ranchi in a serial. He also wrote book about

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. In 1992, he translated drama of Abhigyan Sakuntalam in nagpuri in workshop of

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was given responsibility to give tune of nagpuri. He edited

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Smriti Granth and

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. He retired in 1996 from teaching.

Last days and Death

He was attended a program in

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. Then he felt I'll and came to Ranchi. He lost his memory. After taking precautions he recovered but he was ill. He died on 11 April 2020 in Ranchi.

Award and recognition

He was awarded Radhakrishna Award for his first Hindi novel ''Jangal Tantram''.

References

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