: वामन मल्हार जोशी) (January 21, 1882 – July 20, 1943) was a Marathi

Marathi people

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 writer from Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

, India

India

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.

Joshi was born on January 21, 1882 in the town of Tale in the Konkan

Konkan

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 region of Maharashtra. After finishing his high school education in 1900, he studied at Deccan College in Pune

Pune

Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...

 to receive his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1904 and 1906, respectively.

Joshi served thereafter for a few years as a teacher in a nationalistic high school. (India was under British Raj

British Raj

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 in those times.) Since 1908, he also served as the editor of a nationalistic monthly Wishwa Wrutta (विश्ववृत्त). Soon after 1908, British authorities imposed a three-year imprisonment with hard labor on him for the “crime" of publishing in Wishwa Wrutta some "inflammatory" articles suggesting overthrow of the British rule.

After release from the prison, Joshi worked for two years as the editor of Lokamanya Tilak

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Lokmanya Tilak –, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer and independence fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement. The British colonial authorities derogatorily called the great leader "Father of the Indian unrest"...

's daily Kesari (केसरी). In 1918, he joined the teaching staff of the Women's University

SNDT Women's University

Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University is a women's university in the city of Mumbai, India. The university headquarters are situated at Churchgate in South Mumbai, while the main campus is in Santacruz–Juhu area of Mumbai. SNDT has three campuses: two in Mumbai and one in...

 which Bharat Ratna

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 Dhondo Keshav Karve

Dhondo Keshav Karve

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 had founded two years earlier, (first as a women's college). He taught philosophy, psychology, and English and Marathi literature at the university. Later he became the principal of the university.

Joshi presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan

Marathi Sahitya Sammelan

Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan is a conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Though the conference has sometimes been held in a town outside the Indian state of Maharashtra, it is typically held annually in one of the towns in Maharashtra where Marathi is the mother tongue...

 held at Madgaon, Goa

Goa

Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...

in 1930.

Literary work

• Ragini (रागिणी) (1914)
• Ashramharini (आश्रमहरिणी) (1916)
• Nalini (नलिनी) (1920)
• Indu Kale Va Sarala Bhole (इंदु काळे व सरला भोळे) (1934)
• Sushilecha Dev (सुशीलेचा देव)
• Smruti-Lahari (स्मृति-लहरी)
• Neeti Shastra Prawesh (नीतिशास्त्रप्रवेश)