Namvar Singh
Indian literary critic, linguist and academic (1926-2019) · India · On the map · Writers · Lived 1927 to 2019 · aged 91
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.
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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.
Country
India
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1927 to 2019 · aged 91
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