Dolarrai Mankad
Dolarrai Mankad, (Hindi: डोलरराय मांकद Gujarati:
ડોલરરાય માં કડ; 23 January 1902 – 29 August 1970),[1] Dolarrai Mankad
full name Dolarrai Rangildas Mankad,[1] was a Born 23 January 1902
Gujarati critic, researcher and poet who won the 1964 Cutch, British India
Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his Died 29 August 1970 (aged 68)
essay Naivedya.[1][2] He was the first vice-chancellor Occupation Critic
of Saurashtra University. Researcher
Poet
Language Gujarati
Early life and Academic life Nationality Indian
Citizenship Indian
Dolarrai Mankad was born in Kutch on 23 January
Notable works Naivedya
1902.[1] After completing his primary and secondary
Notable awards Sahitya Academy Award
education in Saurashtra, he went to Karachi.[1] There
he joined Bharat Sarasvati Mandir as an assistant
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teacher for 1923–25, after which he became the
principal of the same institution again for a term of 2
years.[3] In 1927 he joined D. J. Science College as a professor for Gujarati language and Sanskrit. He
held this office till the partition of India.[1][3]
Then he came to India and became the principal of Vithalbhai Patel University, again for a 2-year term.[3]
In coming 7 years, he held the same office in Darbar Gopaldas University.[3] Then he became the director
of Haribhai Research Center.[3] Then he went forward to become the first vice-chancellor of Saurashtra
University, and held this position until his death.[3]
See also
List of Gujarati-language writers
References
1. Gadit, Jayanth; Nanawati, Rajendra. "સાહિત્યસર્જક: ડોલરરાય માં કડ" (http://gujaratisahityaparisha
d.com/prakashan/sarjako/savishesh/Savishesh-Dolarrai-Mankad.html) [Writer: Dolarrai
Mankad] (in Gujarati). Gujarati Sahitya Parishad.
2. "Sanskrit Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955–2007" (https://web.archive.org/web/200903312341
09/http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10318.htm#gujarati). Sahitya Akademi
Official website. Archived from the original (http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/a
wa10318.htm#gujarati) on 31 March 2009.
3. "Dr. Dolarrai's Life" (https://web.archive.org/web/20111104135241/http://www.indology.org.i
n/life.html). Jamnagar: Dr. Dolarrai Mankad Center for Indological studies and research.
Archived from the original (http://www.indology.org.in/life.html) on 4 November 2011.
Retrieved 2 November 2011.
External links
Works by Dolararāya Raṃ Māṅkaḍa (https://books.google.com/books?&as_auth=%22Dolar
ar%C4%81ya+Ra%E1%B9%83+M%C4%81%E1%B9%85ka%E1%B8%8Da%22) at
Google Books
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