Mangesh Vitthal Rajadhyaksha (Marathi: मंगेश विठ्ठल राजाध्यक्ष) (7 June 1913 – 19 April 2010) was a Marathi writer and critic. He studied at Elphinstone College in Mumbai, where he won the prestigious Wordsworth Prize for the best student in English literature.
Rajadhyaksha later taught English literature at Elphinstone College, Gujarat College (Ahmedabad) and Rajaram College (Kolhapur).[1] He also served on several prestigious committees, including the National Book Trust and the Jnanpith Trust that gives the Jnanpith Award.
He was closely involved with Abhiruchi, a Marathi literary journal that was the launching pad for some of the greatest writers in the post-independence era.[2]
The Times of India reported at the time of his death: "His essays, collected in seven volumes, brought to Marathi literary criticism a rare perspicacity, candour and impatience with cant. His style was economical, precise and always lined with irony. He also coauthored a seminal history of Marathi literature with Kusumavati Deshpande. Panch Kavi, (पाच कवी) a selection of the works of five poets who represented the new and modern in poetry at the turn of the 19th century, became a literary classic. His preface to the volume remains one of the most lucidly argued pieces of literary criticism."[2]
The Marathi daily Loksatta, in an editorial, described his death as the death of a पुराणपुरुष, and one who was a scholar in the English critical tradition as well as a Marathi intellectual.[3]
"Professor R. P. Kangle", Quelle: Perceptions on Kautilîya Artha´sâstra : in commemoration of Prof. R. P. Kangle's birth centenary, ed. K. P. Jog. Mumbai: Popular Prakashan, 1999. ISBN978-81-7154-652-7. 207 – 216
M.V. Rajadhakshya, "Shakespeare in Marathi", Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, vol.7 no.1 (1974), p. 83[4]
"Marathi Literature from A. D. 1800 to A. D. 1920". Maharashtra State Gazetteers, Government of Maharashtra Language and Literature[5]
Translations
Pendse, Shripad Narayan, The B.E.S.T. story, S. N. Pendsay ; rendered into English from the Marathi by M. V. Rajadhyaksha, Bombay Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking, Bombay: 1972
References
^. Rajacollkop.org. 24 July 1970. Archived from the original on 1 January 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
^ ab"Noted critic, writer passes away at 96". Epaper.timesofindia.com. 21 April 2010. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
^"Marathi News, Latest Marathi News, Marathi News Paper, Marathi News Paper in Mumbai, Loksatta | मराठी ताज्या बातम्या".
^"Shakespeare in India (2)". Internetshakespeare.uvic.ca. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
^"Maharashtra State Gazetteers" (PDF). Retrieved 18 August 2010.
External link
Works by Maṅgeśa Viṭṭhala Rājādhyaksha at Google Books
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