Madhavrao Sapre
1871–1926
Biography
Madhavrao Sapre (1871–1926) was an Indian writer, journalist and editor who worked in Hindi. He spent much of his working life in the Central Provinces, where he edited newspapers and took a leading part in the national movement for independence. Later readers count him among the founders of modern Hindi prose, and his work as an editor and reformer is remembered alongside his fiction.
He is best known for Ek Tokri Bhar Mitti, a short story generally regarded as the first short story in Hindi, and that single work secures his place in the history of the language. His other contributions were just as practical. In 1902 he edited a science dictionary for the Kashi Nagari Pracharini Sabha in Varanasi, and he helped to build the Hindi vocabulary of economics. Some scholars also treat him as one of the earliest Hindi literary critics.
The site holds his stories in a collection titled माधवराव सप्रे की कहानियाँ (The Stories of Madhavrao Sapre). It is the most direct way to read the fiction behind his reputation, and it lets readers judge the stories for themselves.
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Books
माधवराव सप्रे की कहानियाँ
by माधवराव सप्रे
Four short pieces of fiction by Madhavrao Sapre, among them Ek Tokri Bhar Mitti (1901), often named as the first short story in Hindi. A small, historically important collection from the very beginning of the Hindi story.
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