Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya (18 October 1861– 20 April 1938) was a Marathi-language historian and writer from Bombay Presidency, British India. He was Chief Justice of Gwalior State for a period.[1] He was born in a Chitpavan Brahmin family.[2]
In 1908, Vaidya chaired the Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held in Pune. Later, he became involved in the nationalist Congress Democratic Party, which was led by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak.[3]
Works
[edit]The following is a list of the titles of his major works:
- Samagra Awalonnati Lekhamālā (1906)
- Mahābhārat — Samālochan (1914)
- Mahābhārat — A Criticism
- Nibandha Aṇi Bhāshaṇẽ (1915)
- Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇ Parīkshaṇ (1920)
- Madhyayugīn Bhārat, Athawā, Hindu Rājyāñchā Udbhav, Utkarsh, Aṇi Uchchhed (1920)
- History of Mediaeval Hindu India, Being a History of India From 600 to 1200 A.D. (in three volumes) (Poona: Oriental Book Supplying Agency, 1921–1926)
- Downfall of Hindu India
- Shrī Kru̥shṇa Charitra (1922)
- Sanskrut Wāngmayāchā Troṭak Itihās (1922)
- Shriman Mahābhāratāche Marāṭhī Suras Bhāshāntar (1922)
- Durdaivī Raṅgū, Athawā, Pānipatachā Shewaṭacha Saṅgrām (1924) - a work of fiction based on the Third Battle of Panipat[4]
- Early History of Rajputs (750 to 1000 A.D.) (Poona, 1924)
- Shrī Rām Charitra (1926)
- History of Sanskrit Literature (1930)
- Hindu Dharmāchi Tatwe, Arthāt, Yāsambandhĩ̄ Niranirāḷyā Wishayānwar Vaidyāni Dileli Wyākhāne Va Lihilele Lekh (1931)
- Vaidyānche Aitihāsik Nibandha (1931)
- Marāṭhā Swarājya Sãsthāpak Shrī Shivājī Mahārāj (1932)
- Shivaji – The Founder of Maratha Swaraj
- Saṅgīt Sãyogitā Nāṭak, Arthāt, Patinishṭhā (1934)
- Epic India, or, India As Described in the Mahabharat and the Ramayan (in two volumes)
- The Riddle of the Rāmāyaṇ
- Marāṭhī Bhāshechi Utpatti
References
[edit]Citations
- ^ Cashman (1975), pp. 176, 187
- ^ Organiser, Volume 32. Bharat Prakashan. 1980. p. 6.
The great Sanskrit scholar C. V. Vaidya, a Chitpavan Brahmin...
- ^ Cashman (1975), pp. 186–187
- ^ Das (1995), p. 499
Bibliography
- Cashman, Richard I. (1975), The Myth of the Lokamanya: Tilak and Mass Politics in Maharashtra, University of California Press, ISBN 9780520024076
- Das, Sisir Kumar (1995), History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy (Reprinted ed.), Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989