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'''Mangesh Vitthal Rajadhyaksha''' (7 June 1913 – 19 April 2010) was a Marathi writer and critic.<br />
He studied at [[Elphinstone College]] in Mumbai, where he won the prestigious Wordsworth Prize for the best student in English literature.<br />
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Rajadhyaksha later taught English literature at Elphinstone College, [[Gujarat College]] (Ahmedabad) and [[Rajaram College]] (Kolhapur).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://rajacollkop.org/Departments.html |title=Rajaram College :: Departments |publisher=Rajacollkop.org |date=24 July 1970 |accessdate=18 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101111057/http://rajacollkop.org/Departments.html |archivedate=1 January 2011 }}</ref><br />
He also served on several prestigious committees, including the [[National Book Trust]] and the Jnanpith Trust that gives the [[Jnanpith Award]].<br />
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He was closely involved with ''Abhiruchi'', a Marathi literary journal that was the launching pad for some of the greatest writers in the post-independence era.<ref name="timesofindia1">{{Cite web|url=http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDEwLzA0LzIxI0FyMDA5MDM=&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232426/http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDEwLzA0LzIxI0FyMDA5MDM=&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 March 2016 |title=Noted critic, writer passes away at 96 |publisher=Epaper.timesofindia.com |date=21 April 2010 |accessdate=18 August 2010}}</ref><br />
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The Times of India reported at the time of his death: "His essays, collected in seven volumes, brought to Marathi literary criticism a rare perspicacity, candour and impatience with cant. His style was economical, precise and always lined with irony. He also coauthored a seminal history of Marathi literature with Kusumavati Deshpande. Panch Kavi, (पाच कवी) a selection of the works of five poets who represented the new and modern in poetry at the turn of the 19th century, became a literary classic. His preface to the volume remains one of the most lucidly argued pieces of literary criticism."<ref name="timesofindia1"/><br />
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The Marathi daily Loksatta, in an editorial, described his death as the death of a पुराणपुरुष, and one who was a scholar in the English critical tradition as well as a Marathi intellectual.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.loksatta.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63848:2010-04-20-15-37-20&catid=29:2009-07-09-02-02-07&Itemid=7|title=Marathi News, Latest Marathi News, Marathi News Paper, Marathi News Paper in Mumbai, Loksatta &#124; मराठी ताज्या बातम्या}}</ref><br />
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He was the husband of the well-known Marathi writer [[Vijaya Rajadhyaksha]].<br />
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He died on 19 April 2010 at the age of 96.<br />
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==Books==<br />
# पाच कवी (संपादित, 1946)<br />
# आकाश्भाशिते (1963)<br />
# खर्डेघाशी (1963)<br />
# अम्लान (1983)<br />
# शालजोडी (1983)<br />
# पंचम (1984)<br />
# पाक्षिकी (1986)<br />
# शब्दयात्रा (1986)<br />
# पुरुषराज अळूरपांडे (with [[P.L. Deshpande]] and R.V. Alurkar, 1988)<br />
# A History of Marathi Literature (with [[Kusumavati Deshpande]], 1988)<br />
# भाषाविवेक (1997)<br />
# स्मरणसावल्या (2001)<br />
# वाद संवाद (with [[Dattatraya Ganesh Godse]], 2003)<br />
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==Essays==<br />
* [http://www.payer.de/kautilya/kautilya02a.htm "Professor R. P. Kangle"], ''Quelle: Perceptions on Kautilîya Artha´sâstra : in commemoration of Prof. R. P. Kangle's birth centenary'', ed. K. P. Jog. Mumbai: Popular Prakashan, 1999. {{ISBN|978-81-7154-652-7}}. 207 – 216<br />
* M.V. Rajadhakshya, "Shakespeare in Marathi", ''Indian Literature'', Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, vol.7 no.1 (1974), p.&nbsp;83<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Criticism/shakespearein/india2.html |title=Shakespeare in India (2) |publisher=Internetshakespeare.uvic.ca |accessdate=18 August 2010}}</ref><br />
* "Marathi Literature from A. D. 1800 to A. D. 1920". Maharashtra State Gazetteers, Government of Maharashtra Language and Literature<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/pdf/gazeetter_reprint/Language%20and%20literature/contributors.pdf |title=Maharashtra State Gazetteers |accessdate=18 August 2010}}</ref><br />
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==Translations==<br />
* Pendse, Shripad Narayan, ''The B.E.S.T. story'', S. N. Pendsay; rendered into English from the Marathi by M. V. Rajadhyaksha, Bombay Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking, Bombay: 1972<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Gbooks-author|Maṅgeśa Viṭṭhala Rājādhyaksha}}<br />
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