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"name": "Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi",
"bio": "\nTarkateertha Lakshman Shastri Joshi (27 January 1901 – 27 May 1994) was an Indian scholar, of Sanskrit, Hindu Dharma, and a Marathi literary critic, and supporter of Indian independence. Mahatma Gandhi chose him to be his principal advisor in his campaign against untouchability. Joshi was the first recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award in year 1955. He was also awarded with two of the India's highest civilian honours Padma Bhushan in 1973 and Padma Vibhushan in 1992\nLakshman Shastri was born in a Marathi Deshastha Brahmin family in 1901 to Balaji and Chandrabhaga Joshi, in the village of Pimpalner, tahsil sakri, Dhule district in the present-day state of Maharashtra. He left home at age 14 after studying to be a priest. He finally settled in Wai, a historic temple town on the banks of the Krishna river. In Wai, he studied Sanskrit, Hindu dharma and Indian philosophy at the Pradnya pathshala, a renowned Vedic school. Later in 1923 he earned the degree \"Tarkateertha\", or literally, \"Master of logic\" at the Government Sanskrit \nMahavidyalaya of Calcutta. In 1927, he married Satyawati Mulherkar. They had two sons and two daughters. Their elder son, Madhukar had a distinguished career at IBM in research and management.",
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"name": "Mahadevshastri Joshi",
"bio": "Mahadevshastri Joshi (January 12, 1906 - December 12, 1992) was a Marathi writer.\nJoshi was born on January 12, 1906, in the town of Ambede in Goa. He received the epithets shastri and pandit following his education in a Sanskrit pathshala (पाठशाळा) in Sangli.\nIn his student days, Joshi also frequented the public library in Sangli, and widely read the works of modern Marathi writers of his time like Narayan Sitaram Phadke and Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar. Especially, Khandekar's short stories and novels highly influenced him then to want to be a writer like Khandekar.",
"raw_bio": "Mahadevshastri Joshi (January 12, 1906 - December 12, 1992) was a Marathi writer. Joshi was born on January 12, 1906, in the town of Ambede in Goa. He received the epithets shastri and pandit following his education in a Sanskrit pathshala (पाठशाळा) in Sangli. In his student days, Joshi also frequented the public library in Sangli, and widely read the works of modern Marathi writers of his time like Narayan Sitaram Phadke and Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar. Especially, Khandekar's short stories and novels highly influenced him then to want to be a writer like Khandekar.",
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"name": "Shrikrishna Janardan Joshi",
"bio": "Shrikrishna Janardan Joshi (1915–1989) was a Marathi novelist from Maharashtra, India.\nIn his writings, he harshly depicted Pune, where he lived, as a hub of Brahmin orthodoxy,. He wrote several novels, short stories, and essays, including award-winning novel Anandi Gopal, which is a fictional account of the life of Anandi Gopal Joshi. The novel was later adapted into an award-winning play Anandi Gopal.\nHe also authored a biography of R. D. Karve titled ' Raghunathachi Bakhar '.",
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"name": "Shripad Raghunath Joshi",
"bio": "Shripad Raghunath Joshi (1920 – 2002) was a Marathi author from Maharashtra, India.\nJoshi was born in the Kolhapur district of Maharashtra.\nUnder the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, he participated in the Indian struggle for freedom from the British Raj. For his freedom activities, the British rulers had imprisoned him during 1942 - 1944 at Yerawada prison.",
"raw_bio": "Shripad Raghunath Joshi (1920 – 2002) was a Marathi author from Maharashtra, India. Joshi was born in the Kolhapur district of Maharashtra. Under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, he participated in the Indian struggle for freedom from the British Raj. For his freedom activities, the British rulers had imprisoned him during 1942 - 1944 at Yerawada prison.",
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"name": "Vaman Gopal Joshi",
"bio": "\nWaman Gopal Joshi (18 March 1881 – 3 June 1956) (popularly known as Veer Wamanrao Joshi), was a Marathi journalist, playwright, and freedom fighter, from Amravati Maharashtra, India. He was the editor of Rashtramat and Swatantra Hindustan during the freedom struggle of India. He courted arrest and came to be known as Veer Wamanrao Joshi or Veer Vamanrao Joshi. He wrote the play 'RaNa-dundubhi', whose songs were made famous by Dinanath Mangeshkar.\nWaman Gopal Joshi should not be confused with the writer Vaman Malhar Joshi. They were contemporaries.",
"raw_bio": "Waman Gopal Joshi (18 March 1881 – 3 June 1956) (popularly known as Veer Wamanrao Joshi), was a Marathi journalist, playwright, and freedom fighter, from Amravati Maharashtra, India. He was the editor of Rashtramat and Swatantra Hindustan during the freedom struggle of India. He courted arrest and came to be known as Veer Wamanrao Joshi or Veer Vamanrao Joshi. He wrote the play 'RaNa-dundubhi', whose songs were made famous by Dinanath Mangeshkar. Waman Gopal Joshi should not be confused with the writer Vaman Malhar Joshi. They were contemporaries.",
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"name": "Vaman Malhar Joshi",
"bio": "\nVaman Malhar Joshi (January 21, 1882 – July 20, 1943) was a Marathi writer from Bombay Presidency, British India.\nJoshi was born in a Deshastha Brahmin family on January 21, 1882, in the town of Tale in the Konkan region of Maharashtra. After finishing his high school education in 1900, he studied at Deccan College in Pune to receive his bachelor's and master's degrees in Philosophy in 1904 and 1906, respectively.",
"raw_bio": "Vaman Malhar Joshi (January 21, 1882 – July 20, 1943) was a Marathi writer from Bombay Presidency, British India. Joshi was born in a Deshastha Brahmin family on January 21, 1882, in the town of Tale in the Konkan region of Maharashtra. After finishing his high school education in 1900, he studied at Deccan College in Pune to receive his bachelor's and master's degrees in Philosophy in 1904 and 1906, respectively.",
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"name": "Baba Kadam",
"bio": "\nVeersen Aanandrao alias Baba Kadam was a Marathi novelist famous for his detective novels. During his career his wrote over 50 novels, most notably, Bhalu, Panch, and Najuk Bote.\nBorn in Kolhapur he did his schooling from Vidyapeeth High School, Kolhapur and after graduation from the Chhatrapati Rajaram College he studied law.",
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"name": "Vasant Purushottam Kale",
"bio": "\nVasant Purushottam Kale, popularly known as Va Pu, was a Marathi writer. He wrote more than 60 books. His well-known works include Partner, Vapurza, Hi Waat Ekatichi, and Thikri. He was a famous story-teller and had over 1600 stage-shows (कथाकथन) in the theatres. He was the first writer to come in form of audio cassettes.\nHe has also written so many story collection books which include \"Sakhi\" , \"Taptapadi\" , \"One for the road\" etc. which are praised by the readers for being relatable.",
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"name": "Dattatreya Balkrushna Kalelkar",
"bio": "\nDattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar (1 December 1885 – 21 August 1981), popularly known as Kaka Kalelkar, was an Indian independence activist, social reformer, journalist and an eminent follower of the philosophy and methods of Mahatma Gandhi.\nKalelkar was born in Satara on 1 December 1885. His family's ancestral village of Kaleli, near Sawantwadi in Maharashtra, gave him his surname Kalelkar. He matriculated in 1903 and completed B.A. in Philosophy from Fergusson College, Pune in 1907. He appeared in the first year examination of LL.B. and joined Ganesh Vidyalaya in Belgaum in 1908. He worked for a while on the editorial staff of a nationalistic Marathi daily named Rashtramat, and then as a teacher at a school named Ganganath Vidyalaya in Baroda in 1910. In 1912, the British government forcibly closed down the school because of its nationalistic spirit. He traveled to the Himalayas by foot and later joined Acharya Kripalani on a visit to Burma (Myanmar) in 1913. He first met Mahatma Gandhi in 1915.",
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"name": "Narayan Govind Kalelkar",
"bio": "\nNarayan Govind Kalelkar (Devanagari: नारायण गोविंद कालेलकर) (11 December 1909 - 1989) was a linguist from Maharashtra, India.\nHe was born in the village of Bambuli in Ratnagiri District. He received his early college education in Baroda and Mumbai with specialization in French language, and a D.Lit. Degree from a university in Paris.",
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"name": "Pandurang Vaman Kane",
"bio": "\nPandurang Vaman Kane (pronounced Kaa-nay) (7 May 1880 – 18 April 1972) was a notable Indologist and Sanskrit scholar. He received India's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in 1963 for his scholarly work that spanned more than 40 years of active academic research that resulted in 6,500 pages of History of Dharmaśāstra. The historian Ram Sharan Sharma says: \"Pandurang Vaman Kane, a great Sanskritist wedded to social reform, continued the earlier tradition of scholarship. His monumental work entitled the \"History of the Dharmasastra\", published in five volumes in the twentieth century, is an encyclopedia of ancient social laws and customs. This enables us to study the social processes in ancient India.\"\nHe was born in a village called Parasuram near Chiplun in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra on 7 May 1880 in a Chitpavan Brahmin family",
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"name": "Anant Kanekar",
"bio": "\nAnant Atmaram Kanekar (1905–1980) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.\nHe was born in Bombay on 2 December 1905.",
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