Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi

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Jun 26, 2012, 7:47:22 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887-1971)'''
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+Major Gujarati novelist, playwright, essayist and
+social reformer. Worked briefly at Sagar where
+his scripts were a seminal generic influence on
+its reformist socials, esp. Dr Madhurika and
+Vengeance is Mine (both 1935, the latter based
+on his story Ver Ni Vasulat), feeding into
+Mehboob’s historicals. Early writings were
+reformist socials following in the wake of the
+most significant novelist in modern Gujarati,
+Govardhanram Tripathi (1855-1907). Became
+popular with historicals and period fables often
+set in the Solanki period (AD 961-1242): e.g.
+Patanant Prabhuta (1916), Gujarat No Natha
+(1917), Rajadhi Raja (1922). Author of the
+spectacularly successful historical Prithvi
+Vallabh (1920), filmed in the silent era by
+Manilal Joshi (1924) and later by Sohrab
+Modi (1943). In later years better known as a
+lawyer and politician, co-founding the rightwing
+Swatantra Party and briefly as a cabinet
+minister in the Congress.
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+[[Writer]]