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{{Infobox writer
| name = Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi
| image = Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi 1978 stamp of India.jpg
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| caption = Nanalal on a 1978 stamp of India
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1877|3|16}}
| birth_place = [[Ahmedabad]], [[British Raj]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1946|1|9|1877|3|16}}
| death_place = Ahmedabad, [[India]]
| occupation = {{flatlist|
* Poet
* novelist
* playwright
* biographer
* translator
}}
| nationality = [[India]]n
| period = [[Gujarati literature#Modern literature (1850 AD – present)|Pandit Yuga]]
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| notableworks =
| relatives = [[Dalpatram]] (father)
| signature = Nhanalal Autograph.jpg
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}}

'''Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi''' (16 March 1877 – 9 January 1946) was an Indian writer and poet in [[Gujarati language]].<ref>Siba Pada Sen (1972) ''Dictionary of National Biography''. Institute of Historical Studies. p. 217.</ref> of [[Gujarati literature]]. His name is sometimes spelled as Nhanalal.

== Biography ==
Nanalal was born on 16 March 1877 in [[Ahmedabad]] as the fourth son of [[Dalpatram]], who settled there since 1848 after migrating from [[Wadhwan]]. Dalpatram was popular and admired as poet that his ancestral surname Tarvadi ([[Trivedi]]) was gradually dropped and he came to be generally known as Kavi (poet). Nanalal and his descendants then adopted permanently Kavi as their surname.<ref name="Maniar1977">{{cite book|last=Maniar|first=Umedbhai M.|title=Nanalal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7OoPAAAAMAAJ|edition=1st|series=Makers of Indian Literature|year=1977|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|oclc=4497196|pages=2–3}}</ref>

Nanalal passed his [[matriculation examination]] in 1893. He took his college education in various colleges at [[Bombay]], [[Poona]] and Ahmedabad, and received his Master of Arts degree from the [[University of Bombay]] in 1901.<ref name="Maniar1977"/>

He died on 9 January 1946 in Ahmedabad.<ref name="Maniar1977"/>

== Works ==
While studying at the college, Nanalal started writing poetry. ''Vasantotsava'' (''Festival of Spring''), a poem, was his first literary composition.<ref name="Maniar1977"/>

''Vasantotsava'' and ''Oaj ane Agar'' are his ''Khandakavyas'' (narrative lyrics). He unsuccessfully attempted to write an epic entitle ''Kurukshetra''.<ref name="Thaker2007">{{cite book|title=Gujarat: A Panorama of the Heritage of Gujarat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g4oMAQAAMAAJ|publisher=[[Gujarati Vishwakosh|Gujarat Vishwakosh Trust]]|year=2007|oclc=180581353|editor-last=Thaker|editor-first=Dhirubhai|editor-link=Dhirubhai Thaker|edition=1st|location=Ahmedabad|pages=360–361|editor-last2=Desai|editor-first2=Kumarpal|editor-link2=Kumarpal Desai|series=Dhanya Gurjari Kendra Prakashan-2}}</ref> His last work ''Harisanhita'', an epic poem, was published posthumously in three parts during 1959–1960.<ref>{{cite book|last=George|first=K. M.|author-link=K. M. George (writer)|title=Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology|year=1992|chapter=Gujarati Poetry|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m1R2Pa3f7r0C&q=Nanalal+Dalpatram+Kavi&pg=PA129|publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]]|location=New Delhi|page=129|isbn=81-7201-324-8}}</ref> ''Harisanhita'', composed in [[Anuṣṭubh]] metre, is considered to be 'a [[Sublime (literary)|sublime]] piece of poetry'.<ref name="Thaker2007"/> [[Umashankar Joshi]] called his lyrics 'Gujarat's paragon in melody in words'.<ref name="Datta1989">{{cite book|last=Trivedi|first=Yashvant|editor-last=Datta|editor-first=Amaresh|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: K to Navalram|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124515|volume=III|year=1989|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1804-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124515/page/n987 2872]–1873}}</ref>

Among the play that Nanalal has written, the main are ''Indukumar'', ''Jaya ane Jayant'', ''Shahenshah Akbarshah'', ''Vishvageeta'' and ''Jahangir–Noorjahan''. In his social plays, he has discussed the problems of marital love and love-marriage. His plays have thin plot and characters, and their stageability is also limites. These plays are written in ''Dolanshaili'', a sort of [[blank verse]] based on rhythm, employed by the Nanalal himself.<ref name="Thaker2007"/>

''Pankhadio'' is a collection of his short stories. He wrote two novels entitled ''Usha'' and ''Sarathi'' (''Charioteer'').<ref name="Thaker2007"/> ''Usha'' is a story of a poet turned lover. In ''Sarathi'', he discusses contemporary politics and prophesies that India will one day be the charioteer (leader) of the world.<ref name="Jhaveri1978">{{cite book|last=Jhaveri|first=Mansukhlal Maganlal|authorlink=Mansukhlal Jhaveri|title=History of Gujarati Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DA0RAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|pages=128–137|oclc=639128528}}</ref>

He wrote a biography of his father, [[Dalpatram]], in three volumes entitles ''Kavishwar Dalpatram''. The critic [[Mansukhlal Jhaveri]] consider it 'remarkable' for the valuable information it provides about the life in Gujarat some time before and during the life time of Dalpatram. Jhaveri also criticised it for its excessive exaggeration in presentation and the total lack of balance in judging the subject.<ref name="Jhaveri1978"/> ''Apana Saksharratno'' (part I & II) and ''Gurudakshina'' are the collection of biographical sketches.<ref name="Thaker2007"/>

He translated several works into Gujarati from [[Sanskrit]] including [[Kālidāsa]]'s ''[[Shakuntala (play)|Abhijñānaśākuntalam]]'' and ''[[Meghadūta]]''; ''[[Bhagavad Gita]]'', ''[[Shikshapatri]]'' and 5 ''[[Upanishads]]''.<ref name="Jhaveri1978"/>

==Reception==
The [[Government of India]] issued a postage stamp on him in his honour on 16 March 1978.<ref>[http://www.indianpost.com/viewstamp.php/Alpha/N/NANALAL%20DALPATRAM%20KAVI Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi – Postage stamp – 1978] ''[[India Post]]''</ref>

Gujarati critic and historian Mansukhlal Jhaveri notes, in ''History of Gujarati Literature'', that "few poets in Gujarat have reached as high a zenith in esteem as Nanalal, who during his own life time was acknowledged as the greatest lyrical poet of Gujarat.<ref name="Jhaveri1978"/>

==See also==
* [[List of Gujarati-language writers]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book|last=Jhaveri|first=Mansukhlal|author-link=Mansukhlal Jhaveri|title=Nhānālāla : Dasa Vivecanalekho|script-title=gu:ન્હાનાલાલ : દસ વિવેચનલેખો|trans-title=Nhanalal : 10 Critical Articles|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.537690|year=1967|edition=1st|publisher=Vora & Co.|location=Mumbai|oclc=20376716|language=gu}}

==External links==
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