1. Navalram Laxmiram Pandya was a Gujarati critic, playwright, poet, essayist, editor, educationist and a social reformer.
12 Facts About Navalram Pandya
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Navalram Pandya is considered to be a most important figure in modern Gujarati literature.
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The first humourist, the first historical dramatist, the first critic and a leading scholar of his age, Navalram was the first to herald the new generation of writers like Manilal Dwivedi, Govardhanram Tripathi and Narsinhrao Divetia.
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Navalram Pandya's son, Dhimatram, was born in 1867, while his daughter, Kamla, in 1871.
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Navalram Pandya started his writing career with a report on the Maharaj Libel Case.
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Navalram Pandya wrote the historical play Veermati in 1869, based on the story of Jagdev Parmar, published in Alexander Kinloch Forbes' Ras Mala.
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Navalram Pandya reviewed the first Gujarati novel, Karan Ghelo in Gujarat Mitra daily in 1867, pioneering the criticism of Gujarati literature.
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Navalram Pandya was an editor of Gujarat Shala Patra, a periodical on education.
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Navalram Pandya wrote serial commentary on poetry with humour titled Akbarshah ane Birbal Nimitte Hindi Hasyatarang in the periodical from 1860 to 1870.
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Navalram Pandya's other serialized writing in periodical Engrej Lok no Sankshipt Itihas was later edited and published by Balwantray Thakore in 1924.
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Navalram Pandya translated Kalidasa's Meghaduta in Gujarati and discussed the methodology of translation in it.
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Navalram Pandya's Vyutpattipatha was a pioneer essay on philology in Gujarati while Nibandh-riti was an essay on writing essays.