literary critic, linguist and academic (1926–2019)

Namvar Singh

1927–2019, born Varanasi, writes in Hindi, writer

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.

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