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Sahitya Akademi, the Glossary

The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India.^[1]

112 relations: Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Agyeya, Aldous Huxley, Amrita Pritam, Assamese language, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Ayyappa Paniker, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali language, Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, Bombay High Court, Boro language (India), Bulleh Shah, C. Rajagopalachari, Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari, Chandrashekhara Kambara, D. V. Gundappa, Delhi, Devanagari, Dogri language, Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India, Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, English language, Girish Karnad, Gopi Chand Narang, Government of India, Gujarati language, Hindi, India, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Indian Literature (journal), Isaiah Berlin, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jean Guéhenno, Jnanpith Award, K. M. Panikkar, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, K. Satchidanandan, Kalidasa, Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, Kannada, Karnataka Sahitya Academy, Kashmiri language, Khushwant Singh, Konkani language, Lalit Kala Akademi, Languages of India, Laxmi Mall Singhvi, Lists of Sahitya Akademi Award winners, Literature, ... Expand index (62 more) »
1954 establishments in India
Arts organisations based in Delhi
Arts organizations established in 1954
Executive branch of the government of India
Indic literature societies

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Adoor Gopalakrishnan (born 3 July 1941) is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer and is regarded as one of the most notable and renowned filmmakers in India.

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Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan (7 March 1911 – 4 April 1987), popularly known by his pen name Agyeya (also transliterated Ajneya, meaning 'the unknowable'), was an Indian writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator and revolutionary in Hindi language.

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher.

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Amrita Pritam

Amrita Pritam (31 August 1919 – 31 October 2005) was an Indian novelist, essayist and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi.

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Assamese language

Assamese or Asamiya (অসমীয়া) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language.

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician and poet who served three terms as the Prime Minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 to 1999, followed by a full term from 1999 to 2004.

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Ayyappa Paniker

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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (anglicized as Chatterjee) (26 or 27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was an Indian novelist, poet, essayist and journalist.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.

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Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya

Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (14 October 1924 – 6 August 1997) was an Indian writer.

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Bombay High Court

The High Court of Bombay is the high court of the states of Maharashtra and Goa in India, and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.

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Boro language (India)

Boro (बर or बड़ो), also rendered Bodo, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Boros of Northeast India and the neighboring nations of Nepal and Bangladesh.

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Bulleh Shah

Sayyid Abdullah Shah Qadri (1680–1757), known popularly as Baba Bulleh Shah and Bulleya, was a 17th and 18th-century Punjabi revolutionary philosopher, reformer and a Sufi poet, universally regarded as the "Father of Punjabi Enlightenment".

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C. Rajagopalachari

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari BR (10 December 1878 – 25 December 1972), popularly known as Rajaji or C.R., also known as Mootharignar Rajaji (Rajaji, the Scholar Emeritus), was an Indian statesman, writer, lawyer, and Indian independence activist.

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Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari

Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari (Dr. C. S. Dharmadhikari) (20 November 1927 – 3 January 2019) was an Indian judge, independence activist, lawyer, author.

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Chandrashekhara Kambara

Chandrashekhara Basavanneppa Kambara (ಚಂದ್ರಶೇಖರ ಕಂಬಾರ; born 2 January 1937) is a prominent Indian poet, playwright, folklorist, film director in Kannada language and the founder-vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi also president of the Sahitya Akademi, country's premier literary institution, after Vinayak Krishna Gokak (1983) and U.R.

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D. V. Gundappa

Devanahalli Venkataramanaiah Gundappa (17 March 1887 – 7 October 1975), popularly known as DVG, was an Indian writer, poet and philosopher in Kannada-language.

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Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.

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Devanagari

Devanagari (देवनागरी) is an Indic script used in the northern Indian subcontinent.

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Dogri language

Dogri (Devanagari: label; Name Dogra Akkhar: 𑠖𑠵𑠌𑠤𑠮|label.

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Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India

The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India lists the languages officially recognized by the Government of India.

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Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature

The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature is a multi-volume English language encyclopedia of Indian literature published by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Girish Karnad

Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films.

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Gopi Chand Narang

Gopi Chand Narang (11 February 1931 – 15 June 2022) was an Indian theorist, literary critic, and scholar who wrote in Urdu and English.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.

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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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Hindi

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Council for Cultural Relations

The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), is an autonomous organisation of the Government of India, involved in India's global cultural relations, through cultural exchange with other countries and their people.

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Indian Literature (journal)

Indian Literature is an English language literary journal published bi-monthly by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.

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Isaiah Berlin

Sir Isaiah Berlin (24 May/6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas.

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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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Jean Guéhenno

Jean Guéhenno born Marcel-Jules-Marie Guéhenno (25 March 1890 – 22 September 1978) was a French essayist, writer and literary critic.

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Jnanpith Award

The Jnanpith Award is the oldest and the highest Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature".

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K. M. Panikkar

Kavalam Madhava Panikkar (3 June 1895 – 10 December 1963), popularly known as Sardar K. M. Panikkar, was an Indian statesman and diplomat.

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K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar

Kodaganallur Ramaswami Srinivasa Iyengar (1908–1999), popularly known as K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, was an Indian writer in English, former vice-chancellor of Andhra University.

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K. Satchidanandan

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Kalidasa

Kālidāsa (कालिदास, "Servant of Kali"; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright.

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Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi

Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (30 December 1887 – 8 February 1971), popularly known by his pen name Ghanshyam Vyas, was an Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer from Gujarat state.

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Kannada

Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), formerly also known as Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states.

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Karnataka Sahitya Academy

Karnataka Sahitya Academy is an autonomous organization set up by the government of Karnataka to promote Kannada literature and recognize literary merit by giving awards. Sahitya Akademi and Karnataka Sahitya Academy are Indic literature societies.

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Kashmiri language

Kashmiri or Koshur (Kashmiri) is a Dardic Indo-Aryan language spoken by around 7 million Kashmiris of the Kashmir region, primarily in the Kashmir Valley of the Indian-administrated union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, over half the population of that territory.

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Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh FKC (born Khushal Singh, 2 February 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician.

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Konkani language

Konkani (Devanagari: sc, Romi: sc, Kannada: sc, Malayalam: sc, Perso-Arabic: sc, IAST) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Konkani people, primarily in the Konkan region, along the western coast of India.

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Lalit Kala Akademi

The Lalit Kala Akademi or National Academy of Art (LKA) is India's national academy of fine arts. Sahitya Akademi and Lalit Kala Akademi are 1954 establishments in India, arts organisations based in Delhi, arts organizations established in 1954 and executive branch of the government of India.

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Languages of India

Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians; both families together are sometimes known as Indic languages.

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Laxmi Mall Singhvi

Laxmi Mall Singhvi (9 November 1931 – 6 October 2007) was an Indian jurist, parliamentarian, scholar, writer and diplomat.

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Lists of Sahitya Akademi Award winners

Lists of Sahitya Akademi Award winners cover winners of the Sahitya Akademi Award, a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the twenty-four major Indian languages.

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Literature

Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.

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Lok Sabha

The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha.

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Louis Untermeyer

Louis Untermeyer (October 1, 1885 – December 18, 1977) was an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor.

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M. T. Vasudevan Nair

Madath Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair (born 15 July 1933), popularly known as M.T., is an Indian author, screenplay writer and film director.

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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.

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Mahadevi Varma

Mahadevi Verma (26 March 1906 – 11 September 1987) was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, sketch story writer and an eminent personality of Hindi literature.

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Mahasweta Devi

Mahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 – 28 July 2016) Ramon Magsaysay Award.

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Maithili language

Maithili is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in parts of India and Nepal.

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Makers of Indian Literature

Makers of Indian Literature is a series of biographical monographs published by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.

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Malayalam

Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people.

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Mandi House

Mandi House is a locality in Delhi, India.

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Manglesh Dabral

Manglesh Dabral (16 May 19489 December 2020) was an Indian Hindi poet and journalist.

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Manipuri Sahitya Parishad

The Manipuri Sahitya Parishad (ꯃꯅꯤꯄꯨꯔꯤ ꯁꯥꯍꯤꯇ꯭ꯌ ꯄꯔꯤꯁꯗ||Manipuri Literary Council) is a literary council dedicated to the active promotion and the development of literary works in the Meitei language in India. Sahitya Akademi and Manipuri Sahitya Parishad are book publishing companies of India and Indic literature societies.

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Marathi language

Marathi (मराठी) is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Martin Wickramasinghe

Lama Hewage Don Martin Wickramasinghe, (commonly known as Martin Wickramasinghe) (මාර්ටින් වික්‍රමසිංහ) (29 May 1890 – 23 July 1976) was a Sri Lankan journalist and author.

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Maulana Azad

Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al-Hussaini Azad (11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958) was an Indian independence activist, writer and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress.

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Meitei language

Meitei, also known as Manipuri, is a Tibeto-Burman language of northeast India.

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Ministry of Culture (India)

The Ministry of Culture is the Indian government ministry charged with preservation and promotion of art and culture of India.

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Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (Ministry of I&B) is a ministerial level agency of the Government of India responsible for the formulation and administration of rules, regulations and laws in the areas of information, broadcasting, the press and the Cinema of India.

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Nabakanta Barua

Nabakanta Barua (29 December 1926 – 14 July 2002) was a prominent Assamese novelist and poet.

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National Book Trust

National Book Trust (NBT) is an Indian publishing house, which was founded in 1957 as an autonomous body under the Ministry of Education of the Government of India. Sahitya Akademi and National Book Trust are book publishing companies of India and executive branch of the government of India.

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Nepali language

Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia.

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New Delhi

New Delhi (ISO: Naī Dillī), is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT).

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Ninety-second Amendment of the Constitution of India

The Ninety-second Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Ninety-second Amendment) Act, 2003, amended the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution so as to include Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santali languages, thereby raising the total number of languages listed in the schedule to 22.

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Odia language

Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ, ISO:,; formerly rendered as Oriya) is an Indo-Aryan classical language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha.

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P. N. Haksar

Parmeshwar Narayan Haksar (4 September 1913 – 25 November 1998) was an Indian bureaucrat and diplomat, best known for his two-year stint as Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's principal secretary (1971–73).

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Parliament of India

The Parliament of India (IAST) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India.

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Pratibha Ray

Pratibha Ray (born 21 January 1944) is an Indian academic and writer of Odia-language novels and stories.

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Premchand

Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known as Munshi Premchand based on his pen name Premchand, was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature.

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Premendra Mitra

Premendra Mitra (4 September 1904 – 3 May 1988)Samsad Bengali Charitabhidhan Vol.II edited Anjali Bose, Published by Sagitta Samsad, Kolkata, Edition January,2019,Page-240 was an Indian poet, writer and film director in the Bengali language.

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Punjabi language

Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance.

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Rajasthani languages

Rajasthani languages are a branch of Western Indo-Aryan languages.

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Ramakanta Rath

Ramakanta Rath (born 13 December 1934) is one of the most renowned modernist poets in the Odia literature.

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Ramdhari Singh Dinkar

Ramdhari Singh (23 September 1908 – 24 April 1974), known by his pen name Dinkar, was an Indian Hindi language poet, essayist, freedom fighter, patriot and academic.

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Sahitya Akademi Award

The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the 8th Schedule to the Indian constitution as well as in English and Rajasthani language. Sahitya Akademi and Sahitya Akademi Award are 1954 establishments in India.

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Sahitya Akademi Fellowship

The Sahitya Akademi Fellowship is a literary honour in India bestowed by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.

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Sahitya Kala Parishad

Sahitya Kala Parishad (साहित्य कला परिषद) (Academy of Performing and Fine Arts) is the Cultural wing of the Govt. Sahitya Akademi and Sahitya Kala Parishad are Indic literature societies.

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Sangeet Natak Akademi

Sangeet Natak Akademi (The National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama in English) is the national level academy for performing arts set up by the Government of India. Sahitya Akademi and Sangeet Natak Akademi are arts organisations based in Delhi.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Santali language

Santali (Ol Chiki:, Bengali:, Odia:, Devanagari), also known as Santal or Santhali, is the most widely-spoken language of the Munda subfamily of the Austroasiatic languages, related to Ho and Mundari, spoken mainly in the Indian states of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Odisha, Tripura and West Bengal by Santals.

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (5 September 188817 April 1975; natively Radhakrishnayya) was an Indian politician, philosopher and statesman who served as the second president of India from 1962 to 1967.

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Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer.

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Seventy-first Amendment of the Constitution of India

The Seventy-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Seventy-first Amendment) Act, 1992, amended the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution so as to include Konkani, Meitei (officially called "Manipuri") and Nepali languages, thereby raising the total number of languages listed in the schedule to eighteen.

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Sindhi language

Sindhi (or सिन्धी) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 30 million people in the Pakistani province of Sindh, where it has official status.

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Sitaram Yechury

Sitaram Yechury (born 12 August 1952) is an Indian Marxist politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and a member of the Politburo of the CPI(M) since 1992.

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Societies Registration Act, 1860

The Societies Registration Act, 1860 is a legislation in British India which allows the registration of entities generally involved in the benefit of society – education, health, employment etc.

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Subramania Bharati

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Suniti Kumar Chatterji

Suniti Kumar Chatterjee (26 November 1890 – 29 May 1977) was an Indian linguist, educationist and litterateur.

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Tamil language

Tamil (தமிழ்) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia.

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Telugu language

Telugu (తెలుగు|) is a Dravidian language native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where it is also the official language.

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India

The Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Twenty-first Amendment) Act, 1967, amended the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution so as to include Sindhi as one of the languages, thereby raising the total number of languages listed in the schedule to fifteen.

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U. R. Ananthamurthy

Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy (21 December 1932 – 22 August 2014) was an Indian contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language.

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Umashankar Joshi

Umashankar Jethalal Joshi (21 July 1911 – 19 December 1988) was an Indian poet, scholar and writer known for his contributions to Gujarati literature.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahitya_Akademi

Also known as India's Academy of Letters, Sahithya Akademi, Sahitya Academy, Sahitya Akademy.

, Lok Sabha, Louis Untermeyer, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Mahabharata, Mahadevi Varma, Mahasweta Devi, Maithili language, Makers of Indian Literature, Malayalam, Mandi House, Manglesh Dabral, Manipuri Sahitya Parishad, Marathi language, Martin Wickramasinghe, Maulana Azad, Meitei language, Ministry of Culture (India), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Nabakanta Barua, National Book Trust, Nepali language, New Delhi, Ninety-second Amendment of the Constitution of India, Odia language, P. N. Haksar, Parliament of India, Pratibha Ray, Premchand, Premendra Mitra, Punjabi language, Rabindranath Tagore, Rajasthani languages, Ramakanta Rath, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Sahitya Akademi Award, Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, Sahitya Kala Parishad, Sangeet Natak Akademi, Sanskrit, Santali language, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Satyajit Ray, Seventy-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, Sindhi language, Sitaram Yechury, Societies Registration Act, 1860, Subramania Bharati, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Tamil language, Telugu language, The Hindu, Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, U. R. Ananthamurthy, Umashankar Joshi, UNESCO, Urdu, Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, Vinda Karandikar, Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari, Yuva Puraskar, Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Zakir Husain.

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1954 establishments in India

Arts organisations based in Delhi

Arts organizations established in 1954

Executive branch of the government of India

Indic literature societies

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