# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/namvar-singh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:53:14.477Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/namvar-singh"
name: "Namvar Singh"
slug: "namvar-singh"
description: "Namvar Singh was an Indian literary critic, linguist, academician and theoretician. He received his doctorate degree from Banaras Hindu University where he also taught for some time. He served as a professor of Hindi literature in several other universities. He was the founder and first chairman of Jawaharlal Nehru University's Centre of Indian Languages and continued to remain as a professor emeritus after his retirement in 1992."
tagline: "Indian literary critic, linguist and academic (1926–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Namvar_Singh.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1927-05-01"
deathDate: "2019-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.571428571428571
  historical:           6.213032
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump