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{{Short description|Indian Freedom Fighter and Magahi novelist}}{{Infobox Author
| name = Jayanath Pati
| nationality = Indian
| period =
| birth_date = {{birth year|1890}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1939|1890}}
| occupation = Writer, novelist
| language = [[Magahi]]
}}

'''Jayanath Pati''' (1890–1939) was an [[Indian independence movement|Indian freedom fighter]] and novelist who wrote in [[Magahi language|Magahi]].<ref> [https://archive.org/details/PhulBahadur/page/n1/mode/2up Fool Bahadur] Archives.org 26 April 2018</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K88VAQAAIAAJ&q=Jainath+Pati |title=Jayanatha Pati |year=1930 |access-date=17 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427044649/https://books.google.co.in/books?id=K88VAQAAIAAJ&q=Jainath+Pati&dq=Jainath+Pati&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjM5POmj9baAhUMro8KHaQ4AosQ6AEITjAJ |archive-date=27 April 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> He was a prominent scholar on Indian history and culture. He wrote ''[[Sunita (novel)|Sunita]]'' the first novel in the Magahi language.

==Biography ==
Jayanath Pati was a versatile scholar, writer, editor-publisher and Vedic scholar.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sita Nath Pradhan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DH2BAAAAIAAJ|title=Chronology of Ancient India: From the Times of the Ṛgvedic King Divōdāsa to Chandragupta Maurya, with Glimpses Into the Political History of the Period|publisher=Calcutta Univ.|year=1927}}</ref> He was a serious scholar of language, culture and history. At the same time, he was active and creative on many fronts as a writer on Vedas, history, and language-culture in various journals.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=911BAAAAYAAJ|title=Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society|publisher=Bihar and Orissa Research Society|year=1923}}</ref> He wrote articles and literature in his mother tongue Magahi, and provided leadership to the freedom movement at the local level. Magahi is spoken in the east of India, in the state of Bihar and Jharkhand.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Magahi|url=https://www.omniglot.com/writing/magahi.htm|website=Omniglot}}</ref> Pati then published books in Magahi and took out handwritten newspapers for the freedom struggle. Not only this, being a [[Mukhtar|mokhtar]], he was also fighting legal battles for the rights of mokhtar's from British rule. Jaynath Pati - who became a Mokhtar after studying only up to the 12th standard - also contributed to the field of education, he established the Anglo-Sanskrit School in [[Nawada]] which is still running today.

Pati was a fearless nationalist. He was the only member at the local level of the [[Indian Home Rule movement|Home Rule movement]]. He led the Surajis as the President of the [[Nawada]] [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] Committee during Mahatma Gandhi's Satyagraha movement in 1920. To organize the freedom movement, he started a handwritten newspaper, which he wrote in his house's basement. He then traveled through villages with his wife Shyama Devi to spread it among the readers. Due to his active role in the freedom struggle, he spent nine months in the Central Jail [[Hazaribagh]] in 1930.

==Works==
Jayanath Pati wrote the first Magahi-language novel ''[[Sunita (novel)|Sunita]]'' in late 1927 which was published in 1928.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vwKvpoSMVYEC&q=%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF |title=Jaynath Pati|access-date=17 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427044502/https://books.google.co.in/books?id=vwKvpoSMVYEC&q=%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF&dq=%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2mOTxj9baAhVMro8KHZVXCAUQ6AEIKDAA |archive-date=27 April 2018|url-status=live |last1=Siṃha|first1=Kapiladeva|year=1969}}</ref> This novel was reviewed by the eminent linguist [[Suniti Kumar Chatterji]] in April 1928 issue of ''The Modern Review''. The novel no longer available, but the copy of his second Magahi novel Fool Bahadur ''[[Phool Bahadur]]'' published on 1 April, 1928 has been preserved.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.prabhatkhabar.com/news/nawada/story/377445.html |title=Jaynath Pati|access-date=17 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426213724/https://www.prabhatkhabar.com/news/nawada/story/377445.html |archive-date=26 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> After this, his third novel ''Gadhneet'' was published. In all three of his novels, he has hit hard on social stereotypes and corruption. Apart from this, Jayanath Pati published a Magahi translation of the [[Government of India Act 1935]] under the title 'Swaraj' in 1937. He also formed an organization for the development of modern Magahi literature and wrote many books, most of which remained unpublished.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IDXhAAAAMAAJ&q=%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF |title=Jaynath Pati|year=1960|access-date=17 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427044551/https://books.google.co.in/books?id=IDXhAAAAMAAJ&q=%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF&dq=%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2mOTxj9baAhVMro8KHZVXCAUQ6AEIVzAH |archive-date=27 April 2018|url-status=live }}</ref> A book of [[Magahi culture|Magahi folk literature]] compiled by him was also published.

==References==
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[[Category:1890 births]]
[[Category:1939 deaths]]
[[Category:Indian novelists]]
[[Category:Indian independence activists]]
[[Category:Magahi language]]
[[Category:People from Nawada district]]

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