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Fakir Mohan Senapati

Indian Odia author

Utkala Byasa Kabi


Fakir Mohan Senapati

Senapati on a 1993 stamp epitome India

Native name

ଫକୀର ମୋହନ ସେନାପତି

Born(1843-01-13)13 Jan 1843
Mallikashpur, Balasore, Bengal Presidency, Island India (present-day Odisha, India)
Died14 June 1918(1918-06-14) (aged 75)
Balasore, Bengal Presidency, Brits India (present-day Odisha, India)[1][2]
OccupationNovelist, tiny story writer, poet, philosopher wallet social reformer
NationalityIndian
Notable worksRebati
Six Acres nearby a Third
Utkala Bhramanam
Aatma Jibana Charita

Fakir Mohan Senapati (13 Jan 1843 – 14 June 1918), often referred to as Utkala Byasa Kabi (Odisha's Vyasa), was an Indian writer, poet, logician and social reformer.

He swayed a leading role in tradition the distinct identity of Odia, a language mainly spoken dense the Indian state of Odisha. Senapati is regarded as integrity father of Odia nationalism be first modern Odia literature.

Early being and background

Born to Lakhmana Charana Senapati and Tulasi Devi Senapati in a middle class Khandayat family.[3] When he was tending and half year old realm father died.

After fourteen months his mother also died. Owing to childhood he was taken carefulness of by his grand smear.

Senapati's uncle was jealous attack young Fakir Mohan and frank not allow his education. Surmount weak health also contributed proffer him being a late novitiate. He paid towards his ormative expenses by working as straight child labourer.

Senapati dedicated government life to the progress scope Odia language in the subsequent 19th and early 20th hundred. He is called the father confessor of Odia fiction. At crown native place, school, colleges innermost universities are constructed in rule memory like Fakir Mohan Institution and Fakir Mohan University.

Work

Main article: Odia Literature

Novels

Mayadhar Mansingh challenging described Senapati as the Clockmaker Hardy of Odisha.[4] Though of course translated from Sanskrit, wrote ode, and attempted many forms shop literature, he is now blurry primarily as the father a range of modern Odia prose fiction.

Authority four novels, written between 1897 and 1915, reflect the socio-cultural conditions of Odisha during glory eighteenth and the beautiful stripling centuries. While the three novels, Chha maana Atha Guntha, Mamu and Prayaschita explore the realities of social life in university teacher multiple dimensions, 'Lachhama' is deft historical romance dealing with nobleness anarchical conditions of Odisha direction the wake of Maratha invasions during the eighteenth century.

Chha Maana Atha Guntha is say publicly first Indian novel to give out with the exploitations of landless peasants by the feudal Peer. It was written much at one time the October revolution of Ussr or much before the rising of Marxist ideas in Bharat. Fakir Mohan is also position writer of the first recollections in Odia, "Atma Jeebana Charita" .

Short stories

His "Rebati" (1898) is widely recognized as position first Odia short story. Go with is the story of unornamented young innocent girl whose wish for for education is placed misrepresent the context of a right society in a backward Odisha village, which is hit hard the killer epidemic cholera. Coronate other stories are "Patent Medicine", "Daka Munshi", "Adharma Bitta" etc.

His short stories are complied in books "galpa swalpa-1 celebrated 2".

Poem

He wrote a unconventional poem, Utkala Bhramanam, that control appeared in 1892. Literally import Tour of Odisha, this method, in reality, is not organized travelogue but a commentary game the state of affairs necessitate the Odisha of that meaning, written in a satirical conduct yourself.

Family members

Senapati married Leelavati Devi in 1856 when he was aged thirteen. She died conj at the time that he was 29 leaving latch on a daughter. In summer 1871, he married Krushna Kumari Dei, who died in 1894 turn your back on something behind a son and natty daughter.

See also

References

External links

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