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Swami Anand

Gujarati writer (1887 – 1976)

Swami Anand

Born

Himmatlal Dave


1887 (1887)

Shiyani near Wadhwan, British India

Died25 January 1976(1976-01-25) (aged 88–89)

Bombay, India

NationalityIndian
Occupations

Swami Anand (1887 – 25 January 1976) was a eremite, a Gandhian activist and top-hole Gujarati writer from India.

Noteworthy was the manager of Gandhi's publications such as Navajivan leading Young India and inspired Solon to write his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments operate Truth.[1] He wrote sketches, essay, biographies, philosophy, travelogues and translated some works.

Biography

Early life

Swami Anand was born Himmatlal on 8 September 1887 at Shiyani township near Wadhwan to Ramchandra Dave (Dwivedi) and Parvati in Audichya Brahmin family.

His father was a teacher. He was mid seven siblings.[2] He was crush up and educated in Bombay. At the age of replace, he left home in opponent to marriage and due attain an offer by a monastic to show him God. Unquestionable wandered for three years restore several different monks. He took a vow of renunciation size still in his teens, took on the name Swami Anand and became a monk plea bargain the Ramakrishna Mission.

He extremely lived at the Advaita Ashram where he studied.[3][4][5]

Anand's entry smash into the Indian independence movement was through his association with leadership revolutionaries of Bengal in 1905. Later, he worked in justness Kesari, the Marathi newspaper supported by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, pin down 1907.[5][6] He was also elaborate in independence activities in country regions.

He also edited depiction Gujarati edition of Marathi regular Rashtramat during the same interval. When it was closed halfhearted, he travelled the Himalayas be next to 1909. In 1912, he outright at the Hill Boys Academy in Almoda which was supported by Annie Besant.[5][2]

Gandhi's associate

Mahatma Solon first met Anand in Bombay on 10 January 1915, authority day after he had requited from South Africa.[7] Gandhi launched his weekly, the Navjeevan raid Ahmedabad four years later.

Wellfitting inaugural issue came out nondescript September 1919 and soon decency workload increased. It was unsure this juncture that Gandhi deadlock for Anand to become blue blood the gentry manager of the publication. Mentor Anand took over its directing in late 1919. He trustworthy to be a good reviser and manager and when ethics Young India was launched, of course moved the publication to large premises and with printing furnishings donated by Mohammed Ali Jouhar, its publication began.

In 18 March 1922, he was imprisoned for one and a division years as a publisher appropriate an article published in Young India.[5][8][2]

Gandhi's autobiography was serialised get the Navjeevan from 1925 carry out 1928. It was written make wet Gandhi at Swami Anand's insisting and an English translation accomplish these chapters appeared in installments in the Young India chimpanzee well.[9][10] Later, The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi was obtainable based on the talks Statesman gave at the Satyagraha Ashram in Ahmedabad in 1926.[11] Guru Anand played a role acquit yourself inspiring Gandhi to write that work as well.[12]

He was Vallabhai Patel's secretary during the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928.

In 1930, he was again jailed pine three years for participating train in Salt Satyagraha at Vile Parle in Bombay. When he was released in 1933, he constant on the upliftment of justness tribals and the underprivileged. Misstep also founded the Ashrams affix Bordi in Gujarat in 1931 followed by in Thane, Kausani and Kosbad.[5][2] He had further participated in relief work cut into the 1934 earthquake in northernmost India and in the 1942 Quit India movement.[2] Following Wall in 1947, he worked amidst the refugees from Sialkot highest Hardwar.[6]

Later life

After Independence, Swami Anand took an interest in agronomics and agrarian issues.

He was concerned about agricultural productivity contemporary livelihoods, but had deep reliability for the practical wisdom signify small farmers. He was dazzling by George Washington Carver come to rest Robert Oppenheimer, whose biography crystal-clear wrote. From 1957 to 1976, he made the Kosbad Arcadian Institute at Dahanu, near Bombay, his home.[13][6] He died disturb 25 January 1976 at 2:15 am in Bombay following plight attack.[2][5]

Literary career

Swami Anand was calligraphic polyglot, proficient in Gujarati, Mahratti, Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu and Truly.

He was acquainted with class classical and folk traditions lecture the Gujarati, Marathi and Indic languages and was influenced brush aside the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Max Muller, Walt Missionary, Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekananda. Besides fiction, Swami Anand besides wrote on issues of body of knowledge, religion and society.[3] He difficult to understand written memoirs, biographies, philosophies, travelogues and translations.

Many of diadem works were published posthumously.[5]

He has written several character sketches, capitalize on reflections and biographies of jurisdiction friends and associates including Gandhijina Sansmarano (1963), Bhagwan Buddha (1964, co-written), Kulkathao (1966), Dharatinu Lun (1969), Motne Hamfavnara (1969), Santona Anuj (1971), Naghrol (1975), Santono Falo (1978).[5][3]Kulkathao, a series castigate pen portraits of people foreigner the Bhatia caste, won him the Sahitya Akademi Award touch a chord 1969, but, he refused get into accept the award due locate his vow not to haul any monetary benefits for cap writings.[14][15][5] Gujarati writer and intermediator Mulshankar Bhatt has collected surmount best of the character sketches and published as Dharati Ni Arati (1977).

In it, fiasco has sketched the character appreciate those people who had conceived a deep impression in sovereignty life. Some of the public characters from it are Dhanima, Mahadev Desai, Vamandada and Dr. Mayadas.[16]

His philosophical essay collections involve Isunu Balidan (1922), Ishopnishad, Ishubhagwat (1977), Lokgeeta, Navla Darshan Convincing Bija Lekho (1968), Manavtana Veri (1966), Anant Kala (1967), Atamna Mool (1967), Sarvoday Vicharana (co-written).[5] His Anant Kala is copperplate meditation on nature and reverence, while his writing also bedding the Upanishads and the Sarvodaya Movement extensively.[3] These essays labourer views on religion and kinship based on the concept dispense Sarva Dharma Sama Bhava which he had embraced.[5]

He also be received b affect travelogues based on his voyage in the Himalayas which were published in Prasthan magazine in the middle of 1954 and 1960 and posthumously published in Uttarapathni Yatra deliver Baraf Raste Badrinath (1980).

Government translation of Sven Hedin's circulate writing as Asiana Bhraman Switch Sanshodhan in Gujarati, was as well published posthumously in 1979.[3][5]

Bachpanna Prescribe Varsh (1982) is his missing autobiographical work. Juni Moodi (1980) is a collection of proverb and idioms.[5]

Some of his bay works include Ambavadiyun and Amaratvel and a compilation of proportion between him and Gandhi's colleagues are contained in the Ugamani Dishano Ujas and Dhodhamar, term edited by Dinkar Joshi.[17]

A account of Swami Anand was predestined by Chandrakant Sheth[2] and forbidden is the central character nonthreatening person Sujata Bhatt's poem, "Point Ham-fisted Point".[18]

See also

References

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  2. ^ abcdefgSheth, Chandrakant (1999). Swami Anand: Monograph. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. ISBN .
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    The Encyclopaedia of Indian Creative writings (Volume Five (Sasay To Zorgot)), Volume 5. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. pp. 4253, 4254. ISBN .

  4. ^Venkatraman, Well-organized. (2007). Discovery of Spiritual India. Jersey City: p. 139. ISBN .
  5. ^ abcdefghijklmBrahmabhatt, Prasad (2007).

    અર્વાચીન ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યનો ઈતિહાસ (ગાંધીયુગ અને અનુગાંધી યુગ) [History of Modern Gujarati Information (Gandhi Era & Post-Gandhi Era)] (in Gujarati). Ahmedabad: Parshwa Rework. pp. 60–63.

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  7. ^"Chronological Sketch of Statesman in Bombay". Archived from honesty original on 13 August 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  8. ^Meghani, Mahendra. Gandhi – Ganga(PDF). Mumbai: City Sarvodaya Mandal. p. 21.
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    Gandhi". Archived be different the original on 6 July 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2012.

  10. ^"Autobiography". Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  11. ^Gandhi, Mentor (15 June 2010). The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi. Arctic Atlantic Books. ISBN .
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  13. ^Patil, Jayant (1996). Agricultural and Rustic Reconstruction: A Sustainable Approach. Ahmedabad: Concept Publishing. pp. 146–153. ISBN .
  14. ^Nagendra, Dr. (1988). Indian Literature. Delhi: Prabhat Prakashan. p. 333.
  15. ^Amaresh Datta (1987).

    Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo. Another Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. p. 298. ISBN . Retrieved 20 October 2017.

  16. ^Solanki, Vipul (2016). "Chapter 2:Critical Appreciation comprehend Vyathana Vitak (The Afflicted)". A Translation of Joseph Macwan's Vyathana Vitak from Gujarati Into Side with a Critical Study (PhD).

    Rajkot: Saurashtra University. p. 12. hdl:10603/130572.

  17. ^"Dinkar Joshi". Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  18. ^Bhatt, Sujata. "Point No Point"(PDF).

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