Ayodhya Singh Upadhyay
1865–1947
Biography
Ayodhya Singh Upadhyay, who wrote as Hariaudh (हरिऔध), was a Hindi poet, essayist and editor. He was born on 15 April 1865 and died on 16 March 1947. He served as chairman of the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, a leading body in Hindi letters, and was given the title Vidyavachaspati in honour of his scholarship.
He worked in Khari Boli, the form of Hindi that became the standard for modern prose and verse, at a time when much poetry was still written in Braj. His long poem Priya Pravas is described as the first epic in Khari Boli Hindi, and it was awarded the Mangla Prasad prize.
His book on this site, वेनिस का बाँका (1888, shown in its 1928 edition), is a Hindi retelling, by way of an Urdu version, of a European tale about the bandit Abellino in Venice. Recasting a foreign story in Hindi was part of his generation's wider effort to bring European writing into the language, so the book shows him as an adapter as well as a poet.
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Books
वेनिस का बाँका
by अयोध्या सिंह उपाध्याय 'हरिऔध' (translated by अयोध्या सिंह उपाध्याय 'हरिऔध')
A romance of Venice and its secret council, written in 1888 by the poet Ayodhya Singh Upadhyay Hariaudh as a recasting, by way of an Urdu version, of an English tale. This is the 1928 edition, in twenty-four chapters after the author's prefaces.
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.