Kala Nath Shastry
1936
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: India, British Raj, Dominion of India
award received: Sahitya Akademi Award
Devarshi Kala Nath Shastry was born on 15 July 1936. He is a Sanskrit scholar and was honoured by the President of India in 1988. He is an Indologist and a prolific writer in Sanskrit, Hindi and English, and a well-known linguist, who has contributed to the campaign of evolving technical terminology in Indian languages and ensuring a respectable status for Hindi, the official language of his state and the Indian union. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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