Narmad, the Glossary
Narmadashankar Lalshankar Dave (24 August 1833 – 26 February 1886), popularly known as Narmad, was an Indian Gujarati-language poet, playwright, essayist, orator, lexicographer and reformer under the British Raj.[1]
Table of Contents
72 relations: Adhyatma Ramayana, Arthritis, Arya Samaj, Autobiography, Baroda State, Basava Premanand, Bhagavad Gita, Bhuleshwar, Bombay Presidency, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, British Raj, Buddhi Vardhak Sabha, Chandravadan Mehta, Dalpatram, Dayananda Saraswati, Dayton, Ohio, De facto, Durgaram Mehta, Elphinstone High School, Gujarat, Gujarat University, Gujarati language, Gujarati literature, Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, Gujarati Vishwakosh, Hindustani language, Iliad, India Post, Jai Jai Garavi Gujarat, Jawaharlal Nehru, Karsandas Mulji, Kavi Narmad Central Library, Lexicography, List of Gujarati-language writers, Mahabharata, Maharaj Libel Case, Mahatma Gandhi, Mari Hakikat, Metre (poetry), Mumbai, Nagar Brahmin, Narma Gadya, Narmad Suvarna Chandrak, Narmakosh, Nationalism, Orthodoxy, Patriotism, Philosophy, Plague (disease), Poetics, ... Expand index (22 more) »
- 19th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
- 19th-century Indian essayists
- Activists from Gujarat
- Dramatists and playwrights from Gujarat
- Hindu reformers
- History of Surat
- Indian lexicographers
- Poets from Bombay Presidency
Adhyatma Ramayana
Adhyatma Ramayana (Devanāgarī: अध्यात्म रामायण, IAST: Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa) is a 13th- to 15th-century Sanskrit text that allegorically interprets the story of Hindu epic Ramayana in the Advaita Vedanta framework.
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Arthritis
Arthritis is a term often used to mean any disorder that affects joints.
Arya Samaj
Arya Samaj (lit) is a monotheistic Indian Hindu reform movement that promotes values and practices based on the belief in the infallible authority of the Vedas.
Autobiography
An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life.
Baroda State
Baroda State was a kingdom within the Maratha Confederacy and later a princely state in present-day Gujarat.
Basava Premanand
Basava Premanand (17 February 1930 – 4 October 2009) was an Indian skeptic and rationalist from Kerala, India.
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Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita (translit-std), often referred to as the Gita, is a 700-verse Hindu scripture, which is part of the epic Mahabharata.
Bhuleshwar
Bhuleshwar (Old spelling Bholeśvar) is a neighbourhood in Mumbai.
Bombay Presidency
The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province, also called Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India and later the Dominion of India, with its capital in the city that came up over the seven islands of Bombay.
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Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), or Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) is the governing civic body of Mumbai, the capital city of Maharashtra.
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British Raj
The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.
Buddhi Vardhak Sabha
The Buddhi Vardhak Sabha (Society for Advancement of Knowledge), also known as the Buddhi Vardhak Hindu Sabha, was a socio-religious reform organization in Bombay (now Mumbai), in British India.
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Chandravadan Mehta
Chandravadan Chimanlal Mehta (6 April 1901 – 4 May 1991), popularly known as C. C. Mehta or Chan. Narmad and Chandravadan Mehta are Gujarati people, Gujarati-language poets, Gujarati-language writers and Indian autobiographers.
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Dalpatram
Dalpatram Dahyabhai Travadi (21 January 1820 – 25 March 1898) was a Gujarati language poet during 19th century in India. Narmad and Dalpatram are 19th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Indian male writers, 19th-century Indian poets, Dramatists and playwrights from Gujarat, Gujarati-language poets, Gujarati-language writers and Indian male poets.
Dayananda Saraswati
Dayanand Saraswati (born Mool Shankar Tiwari; 12 February 1824 – 30 October 1883), was a Hindu philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of Hinduism. Narmad and Dayananda Saraswati are Gujarati people, Hindu reformers and Indian autobiographers.
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Dayton, Ohio
Dayton is a city in Montgomery and Greene counties and the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, United States.
De facto
De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.
Durgaram Mehta
Durgaram Manchharam Dave (1809–1876), popularly known as Durgaram Mehta or Durgaram Mehtaji, was a Gujarati social reformer, essayist, diarist and teacher from British India. Narmad and Durgaram Mehta are 19th-century Indian essayists, Gujarati-language writers and people from Surat.
Elphinstone High School
Elphinstoners High School was a school established in 1824 in Bombay, India in honour of Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay (1819–1827).
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Gujarat
Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.
Gujarat University
The Gujarat University is a public state university located at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
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Gujarati language
Gujarati (label) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people.
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Gujarati literature
The history of Gujarati literature (ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય) may be traced to 1000 AD, and this literature has flourished since then to the present.
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Gujarati Sahitya Parishad
Gujarati Sahitya Parishad is a literary organisation for the promotion of Gujarati literature located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
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Gujarati Vishwakosh
Gujarati Vishwakosh (ગુજરાતી વિશ્વકોશ) is an encyclopedia in Gujarati, one of the official languages of India, published by Gujarat Vishwakosh Trust, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
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Hindustani language
Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India, Pakistan and the Deccan and used as the official language of India and Pakistan. Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (written in Devanagari script and influenced by Sanskrit) and Urdu (written in Perso-Arabic script and influenced by Persian and Arabic).
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Iliad
The Iliad (Iliás,; " about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.
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India Post
India Post is an Indian government-operated postal system in India, and is the trade name of the Department of Post under the Ministry of Communications.
Jai Jai Garavi Gujarat
Jai Jai Garavi Gujarat ("Victory to Proud Gujarat") is a poem written by Gujarati poet Narmadashankar Dave in 1873.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, author and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century.
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Karsandas Mulji
Karsandas Mulji (25 July 183228 August 1871) was a journalist, social reformer and administrator. Narmad and Karsandas Mulji are 19th-century Indian male writers, Gujarati-language writers and people from Surat.
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Kavi Narmad Central Library
Kavi Narmad Central Library is a public library in Surat.
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Lexicography
Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines.
List of Gujarati-language writers
Well known laureates of Gujarati literature are Hemchandracharya, Narsinh Mehta, Mirabai, Akho, Premanand Bhatt, Shamal Bhatt, Dayaram, Dalpatram, Narmad, Govardhanram Tripathi, Mahatma Gandhi, K. M. Munshi, Umashankar Joshi, Suresh Joshi, Pannalal Patel and Rajendra Keshavlal Shah. Narmad and List of Gujarati-language writers are Gujarati-language writers.
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Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
Maharaj Libel Case
The Maharaj Libel Case was an 1862 trial in the Bombay High Court in the Bombay Presidency, British India.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. Narmad and Mahatma Gandhi are 19th-century Indian male writers, Gujarati people, Gujarati-language writers, Hindu reformers and Indian autobiographers.
Mari Hakikat
Mari Hakikat is the autobiography of Narmadashankar Dave, popularly known as Narmad, a Gujarati author from Surat in 19th century India.
Metre (poetry)
In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Nagar Brahmin
Nagar Brahmin is a Brahmin subcaste from the Indian state of Gujarat.
Narma Gadya
Narma Gadya (Narmad's prose) is a collection of the prose writings of Gujarati writer Narmadashankar Dave (1833–1886), popularly known by his pen-name, Narmad.
Narmad Suvarna Chandrak
Narmad Suvarna Chandrak (Gujarati: નર્મદ સુવર્ણ ચંદ્રક), also known as the Narmad Gold Medal or Narmad Chandrak, is a literary honour in Gujarat, India.
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Narmakosh
Narmakosh, published in 1873, is a monolingual Gujarati dictionary prepared by Narmadashankar Dave (1833–1886), a poet and scholar.
Nationalism
Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.
Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy (from Greek) is adherence to correct or accepted creeds, especially in religion.
Patriotism
Patriotism is the feeling of love, devotion, and a sense of attachment to a country or state.
Philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.
Plague (disease)
Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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Poetics
Poetics is the study or theory of poetry, specifically the study or theory of device, structure, form, type, and effect with regards to poetry, though usage of the term can also refer to literature broadly.
Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.
Presidencies and provinces of British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.
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Pune
Pune, previously spelled in English as Poona (the official name until 1978), is a city in Maharashtra state in the Deccan plateau in Western India.
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Pydhonie
Pydhonie is a neighbourhood in South Mumbai.
Ramayana
The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.
Rander
Rander (also known as Rahe Neer or the City of Mosques) is a town in Surat district in the state of Gujarat, India.
Religious fanaticism
Religious fanaticism, or religious extremism, is a pejorative designation used to indicate uncritical zeal or obsessive enthusiasm that is related to one's own, or one's group's, devotion to a religion – a form of human fanaticism that could otherwise be expressed in one's other involvements and participation, including employment, role, and partisan affinities.
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Sadr Diwani Adalat
The Ṣadr Dīwānī ʿAdālat (صدر دیوانی عدالت, সদর দেওয়ানি আদালত) (English: Sudder Dewanny Adawlut) was the Supreme Court of Revenue in British India established at Calcutta by Warren Hastings in 1772.
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Saraswati Mandir
Saraswati Mandir, also known as Sarika Sadan or Narmad House, is a writer's house museum in Surat, Gujarat, India.
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Self-governance
Self-governance, self-government, self-sovereignty, or self-rule is the ability of a person or group to exercise all necessary functions of regulation without intervention from an external authority.
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Soliloquy
A soliloquy (from Latin solo "to oneself" + loquor "I talk", plural soliloquies) is a monologue addressed to oneself, thoughts spoken out loud without addressing another character.
Stillbirth
Stillbirth is typically defined as fetal death at or after 20 or 28 weeks of pregnancy, depending on the source.
Surat
Surat (Gujarati) is a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
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The Spectator
The Spectator is a weekly British news magazine focusing on politics, culture, and current affairs.
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1921.
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The Times of India
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.
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Upanayana
Upanayana (lit) is a Hindu educational sacrament, one of the traditional saṃskāras or rites of passage that marked the acceptance of a student by a preceptor, such as a guru or acharya, and an individual's initiation into a school in Hinduism.
Vadodara
Vadodara, also known as Baroda, is a major city in the Indian state of Gujarat.
Varadarāja
Varadarāja was a 17th-century Hindu Sanskrit grammarian.
Veer Narmad South Gujarat University
Veer Narmad South Gujarat University is a public university located in the city of Surat, Gujarat, India.
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Women in Hinduism
Hindu texts present diverse views on the position of women, ranging from feminine leadership as the highest goddess, to limiting gender roles.
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1837 Surat fire
In April 1837, a fire broke out in the Indian city of Surat, then under British East India Company rule. Narmad and 1837 Surat fire are history of Surat.
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See also
19th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
- Abdul Halim Sharar
- Agha Hasan Amanat
- Amrit Keshav Nayak
- Amrita Lal Basu
- Anandabharati Aiyangar
- Annasaheb Kirloskar
- Appachcha Kavi
- Bellary Raghava
- C. V. Raman Pillai
- Chilakamarti Lakshmi Narasimham
- Dalpatram
- Dwijendralal Ray
- Girish Chandra Ghosh
- Gunabhiram Barua
- Gurajada Apparao
- Jyotirindranath Tagore
- Kattakayam Cherian Mappillai
- Kavi Kant
- Kolachalam Srinivasa Rao
- Korada Ramachandra Sastri
- Krishna Mohan Banerjee
- Lal Khadag Bahadur Malla
- M. Gopala Krishna Iyer
- Manilal Dwivedi
- Motilal Ray
- Mulshankar Mulani
- Nabagopal Mitra
- Narmad
- Norah Richards
- Padmanath Gohain Baruah
- Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Tirupati Venkata Kavulu
- Vedam Venkataraya Sastry
- Wazir Khan (Rampur)
19th-century Indian essayists
- Akshay Kumar Datta
- Anandshankar Dhruv
- Bandaru Acchamamba
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
- Brajendra Nath Seal
- C. D. David
- Chandranath Basu
- Durgaram Mehta
- Gangabai Yagnik
- George Mathan
- Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- Gunabhiram Barua
- Hara Prasad Shastri
- Hemendranath Tagore
- Jagadananda Roy
- Kamalakanta Bhattacharya (Assam)
- Kavi Kant
- Krishna Mohan Banerjee
- Mahipatram Rupram Nilkanth
- Nabagopal Mitra
- Nagendranath Basu
- Narmad
- P. K. Narayana Pillai
- Pratap Narayan Mishra
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Raghupathi Venkataratnam Naidu
- Rajendralal Mitra
- Rajnarayan Basu
- Ram Chandra Bose
- Ramananda Chatterjee
- Ramanbhai Neelkanth
- Ramendra Sundar Tribedi
- Ranchhodbhai Dave
- Sanaullah Panipati
- Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Satish Chandra Vidyabhusan
- Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury
- Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar
Activists from Gujarat
- A. B. Shah
- Aakar Patel
- Akshay Ramanlal Desai
- Alpesh Thakor
- Dina Pathak
- Hansa Jivraj Mehta
- Janki Vasant
- Jignesh Mevani
- Khandubhai Kasanji Desai
- Madhukar Rao Bhagwat
- Makanji Kuber Makwana
- Mallika Sarabhai
- Maneckji Limji Hataria
- Manibhai Desai
- Martin Macwan
- Morarji Desai
- Narmad
- Pravin Togadia
- Ranchhodlal Chhotalal
- Reema Nanavaty
- Saroop Dhruv
- Satyam Patel
Dramatists and playwrights from Gujarat
- Adil Mansuri
- Amrit Keshav Nayak
- Ankit Trivedi
- Bapulal Nayak
- Bhanuprasad Trivedi
- Bharat Dave
- Chhotalal Rukhdev Sharma
- Chinu Modi
- Chunilal Shah
- Dalpatram
- Dhansukhlal Mehta
- Dhiruben Patel
- Dhwanil Parekh
- Hardwar Goswami
- Jaishankar Bhojak
- Janak Dave
- Jashwant Thaker
- Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
- Kavi Kant
- Krishnalal Shridharani
- Labhshankar Thakar
- Madhu Rye
- Mafat Oza
- Mahendrasinh Parmar
- Manilal Dwivedi
- Mohanlal Chunilal Dhami
- Muljibhai Nayak
- Mulshankar Mulani
- Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi
- Narmad
- Pransukh Nayak
- Raghuveer Chaudhari
- Ramanbhai Neelkanth
- Ramanlal Desai
- Ranchhodbhai Dave
- Ravindra Parekh
- Shanta Gandhi
- Shivkumar Joshi
- Shrikant Shah
- Usha Upadhyay
- Vibhut Shah
Hindu reformers
- Adbhutananda
- Adi Shankara
- Arya Samajis
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
- Bhaktivinoda Thakur
- Bholanath Divetia
- Bijoy Krishna Goswami
- Dada Bhagwan
- Datta Tamhane
- Dayananda Saraswati
- Gangadhar Nilkanth Sahasrabuddhe
- Gaudapada
- Gedong Bagus Oka
- Govindapada
- Govindgiri
- Lakulisha
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Malayala Swamy
- Moroba Kanhoba
- Motilal Roy
- N. G. Chandavarkar
- Narmad
- Odhavram
- R. G. Bhandarkar
- Ramakrishna
- Ramalinga Swamigal
- Ramanuja
- Sadhguru
- Shankar Ramchandra Bhise
- Sri Aurobindo
- Surendranath Tipnis
- Swami Swarupdas
- Swami Vivekananda
- Swaminarayan
History of Surat
- 1837 Surat fire
- 1994 plague in India
- 2006 Surat flood
- 2019 Surat fire
- Anglican Church, Surat
- Banian Hospital
- Battle of Swally
- Bhimjee Parikh
- British Cemetery of Surat
- Cable Bridge (Surat, India)
- Dumas Beach
- Dutch Suratte
- English overseas possessions in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
- Gopi Talav
- Heritage Square (Surat, Gujarat)
- History of Surat
- J.J. Training College
- Narmad
- Sack of Surat
- Surat Castle
- Surat Presidency
- Suvali Beach
- Timeline of Surat
- Treaty of Surat
- Umbharat Beach
Indian lexicographers
- Ambalal Sakarlal Desai
- Arvind Kumar (lexicographer)
- Ashutosh Deb
- Budhindranath Delihial Bhattacharya
- G. Venkatasubbiah
- Gopala Chandra Praharaj
- Hardev Bahri
- Khudiram Das
- Kurissery Gopala Pillai
- M. Mariappa Bhat
- Narmad
- Ningthoukhongjam Khelchandra
- Njattyela Sreedharan
- Pitambari Debi
- R. Narayana Panickar
- Rajshekhar Basu
- Ram Chandra Vidyabagish
- Satvasheela Samant
- Siddheshwar Shastri Chitrav
- Siraj-ud-Din Ali Khan Arzu
- Sitaram Lalas
- Sooranad Kunjan Pillai
- Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai
- Sumitra Mangesh Katre
- Vaman Shivram Apte
- Vishwanath Bhatt
Poets from Bombay Presidency
- Balashankar Kantharia
- Bhaskar Ramchandra Tambe
- Damodar Botadkar
- Innocent Sousa
- Narayan Hemchandra
- Narmad
- Vishnu Moreshwar Mahajani
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narmad
Also known as Narmadashankar Dave, Narmadashankar Lalshankar Dave, Veer Narmad.
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