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	===Literary career===		===Literary career===
	''Allaha Ho Akbar'' was Phadke's first novel. He wrote about 150 books, including 74 novels, 27 collections of short stories, 22 reviews, 7 plays,<ref>{{cite book\|last1=Natarajan\|first1=Nalini (Editor)\|title=Handbook of twentieth century literatures of India\|date=1996\|publisher=Greenwood Press\|location=Westport, Conn, USA\|isbn=9780313287787\|pages=221–223, 246\|edition=1. publ.\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&q=phadke&pg=PA207}}</ref> and the autobiographical ''Maje Jeevan: Ek Kadambari''. His work included fiction as well non-fiction.Although most of his work was in Marathi, he also wrote in English.		''Allaha Ho Akbar'' was Phadke's first novel. He wrote about 150 books, including 74 novels, 27 collections of short stories, 22 reviews, 7 plays,<ref>{{cite book\|last1=Natarajan\|first1=Nalini (Editor)\|title=Handbook of twentieth century literatures of India\|date=1996\|publisher=Greenwood Press\|location=Westport, Conn, USA\|isbn=9780313287787\|pages=221–223, 246\|edition=1. publ.\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&q=phadke&pg=PA207}}</ref> and the autobiographical ''Maje Jeevan: Ek Kadambari''. His work included fiction as well non-fiction. Although most of his work was in Marathi, he also wrote in English.
	For many years he also publicly feuded with another well known Marathi author, Acharya [[Pralhad Keshav Atre]]. Phadke presided over the ''[[Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan\|Marathi Sahitya Sammelan]]'' held in [[Ratnagiri]] in 1940. The Indian government honoured him with the [[Padmabhushan]], India's third-highest civilian award, in 1962 for his literary accomplishments.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web \| url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \| title=Padma Awards \| publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India \| date=2015 \| access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref>		For many years he also publicly feuded with another well known Marathi author, Acharya [[Pralhad Keshav Atre]]. Phadke presided over the ''[[Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan\|Marathi Sahitya Sammelan]]'' held in [[Ratnagiri]] in 1940. The Indian government honoured him with the [[Padmabhushan]], India's third-highest civilian award, in 1962 for his literary accomplishments.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web \| url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \| title=Padma Awards \| publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India \| date=2015 \| access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref>

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	* Maze Jeevan: Ek Kadambari (autobiography) <ref>Satchidanandan, K. “REFLECTIONS: Thinking of Autobiography.” Indian Literature, vol. 45, no. 2 (202), 2001, pp. 5–12. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23344674. Accessed 17 Aug. 2020.</ref>		* Maze Jeevan: Ek Kadambari ((autobiography) <ref>Satchidanandan, K. “REFLECTIONS: Thinking of Autobiography.” Indian Literature, vol. 45, no. 2 (202), 2001, pp. 5–12. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23344674. Accessed 17 Aug. 2020.</ref>
	* ''Sex Problem in India: Being a Plea for a Eugenic Movement in India and a Study of All Theoretical and Practical Questions Pertaining to Eugenics''<ref>Phadke, N.S., 1927. Sex Problem in India: Being a Plea for a Eugenic Movement in India and a Study of All Theoretical and Practical Questions Pertaining to Eugenics. DB Taraporevala Sons & Company.</ref>		* ''Sex Problem in India: Being a Plea for a Eugenic Movement in India and a Study of All Theoretical and Practical Questions Pertaining to Eugenics''<ref>Phadke, N.S., 1927. Sex Problem in India: Being a Plea for a Eugenic Movement in India and a Study of All Theoretical and Practical Questions Pertaining to Eugenics. DB Taraporevala Sons & Company.</ref>
	*Where Angels Sell Eggs, and Other Stories in English <ref>Jain, S.K., 1969. A Select Bibliography of Indian Short Stories and Historical Fiction in English. Indian Literature, pp.76-92.</ref>		*Where Angels Sell Eggs, and Other Stories in English <ref>Jain, S.K., 1969. A Select Bibliography of Indian Short Stories and Historical Fiction in English. Indian Literature, pp.76-92.</ref>
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	* ''Sex Problem in India: Being a Plea for a Eugenic Movement in India and a Study of All Theoretical and Practical Questions Pertaining to Eugenics''<ref>Phadke, N.S., 1927. Sex Problem in India: Being a Plea for a Eugenic Movement in India and a Study of All Theoretical and Practical Questions Pertaining to Eugenics. DB Taraporevala Sons & Company.</ref>		* ''Sex Problem in India: Being a Plea for a Eugenic Movement in India and a Study of All Theoretical and Practical Questions Pertaining to Eugenics''<ref>Phadke, N.S., 1927. Sex Problem in India: Being a Plea for a Eugenic Movement in India and a Study of All Theoretical and Practical Questions Pertaining to Eugenics. DB Taraporevala Sons & Company.</ref>
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'''Narayan Sitaram Phadke''' (1894–1978) was a writer from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]. wrote in his native [[Marathi language|Marathi]] as well as English.

==Early life and family==
Narayan Phadke was born to Sitaram Phadke and his wife in the town of [[Karjat, Ahmednagar|Karjat, Ahmadnagar district]] in 1894. He had a Master of Arts degree from [[Bombay University]]. In later years as a writer, Phadke was commonly known by his first and middle initials in Marathi, 'Na si'. Phadke married twice. With his first wife, he had four children. Later he married one of his students, Kamala, who became a prolific writer. The couple had three children. After separation from his first wife, he continued to support her and their children. A daughter from the first marriage later wrote about the silent but terrible suffering of her mother who being relatively uneducated could not articulate herself and having been brought up in conservative value system chose to suffer in silence.

==Career==
He worked from 1919 to 1920 as an assistant editor of the ''Maratha'' newspaper.

He was a professor of Philosophy and Psychology at [[Rajaram College]] in [[Kolhapur]] from 1926 to 1951. For many years in that period, he also edited ''Ratnakar'', ''Zhankar'', and ''Anjali'' magazines. After his retirement, he settled in the city of [[Pune]] in Maharashtra, continuing to write.

===Literary career===
''Allaha Ho Akbar'' was Phadke's first novel. He wrote about 150 books, including 74 novels, 27 collections of short stories, 22 reviews, 7 plays,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Natarajan|first1=Nalini (Editor)|title=Handbook of twentieth century literatures of India|date=1996|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Conn, USA|isbn=9780313287787|pages=221–223, 246|edition=1. publ.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&q=phadke&pg=PA207}}</ref> and the autobiographical ''Maje Jeevan: Ek Kadambari''. His work included fiction as well non-fiction.Although most of his work was in Marathi, he also wrote in English.
For many years he also publicly feuded with another well known Marathi author, Acharya [[Pralhad Keshav Atre]]. Phadke presided over the ''[[Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan|Marathi Sahitya Sammelan]]'' held in [[Ratnagiri]] in 1940. The Indian government honoured him with the [[Padmabhushan]], India's third-highest civilian award, in 1962 for his literary accomplishments.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref>

==Advocate of birth control and eugenics==
In the 1920s, Phadke strongly advocated birth control, and [[Eugenics]] to control population in India. He had [[Margaret Sanger]], an American birth control advocate, write the foreword for his book published in 1927 on the subject called, Sex problem in India .<ref>
*Phadke, N.S., 1927. Sex Problem in India: Being a Plea for a Eugenic Movement in India and a Study of All Theoretical and Practical Questions Pertaining to Eugenics. DB Taraporevala Sons & Company.
*{{cite book|last1=Ahluwalia|first1=Sanjam|title=Reproductive restraints : birth control in India, 1877-1947|date=2008|publisher=Permanent Black|location=Ranikhet|isbn=9788178242293|pages=33–34|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VzGfwLXEt8AC&q=phadke+eugenics&pg=PP2}}</ref> He contributed to the journal ''Birth Control Review''.<ref name="MillsSen2004">{{cite book |author1=James H. Mills |author2= Satadru Sen |author3=Acting Assistant Professor of South Asian History Satadru Sen |others=CONFERENCE Representing The Body in Col |title=Confronting the Body: The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-colonial India |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=33SRnFRdyMQC&pg=PA183|year=2004 |publisher= Anthem Press |isbn=978-1-84331-032-7 |page= 200}}</ref>

==A partial list of books==
* ''Kalankshobha''
* ''Allaha Ho Akbar'' (1917) - Marathi translation of the novel, temporal power by [[Marie Corelli]]<ref name="Towheed2007">{{cite book|author=Shafquat Towheed|title=New Readings in the Literature of British India, c. 1780-1947|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W2EZBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA219|date=1 October 2007|publisher=Lightning Source|isbn=978-3-89821-673-9|page=239}}</ref>
* ''Daulat''
* ''Jadugar''
* ''Uddhar''
* ''Akherache Band''
* ''Pravasi''
* ''Shonan''
* ''Asman''
* ''Toofan''
* ''Majha Dhram''
* ''Indradhanushya''
* ''Sarita Sagar''
* ''hak''
* ''Niranjan''
* ''Atakepaar''
* ''Ved Vaare''
* ''Zanzavat''
* ''Jeddamal''
* ''Uujadle pn surya kothe aahe?''
* Maze Jeevan: Ek Kadambari ((autobiography) <ref>Satchidanandan, K. “REFLECTIONS: Thinking of Autobiography.” Indian Literature, vol. 45, no. 2 (202), 2001, pp. 5–12. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23344674. Accessed 17 Aug. 2020.</ref>
* ''Sex Problem in India: Being a Plea for a Eugenic Movement in India and a Study of All Theoretical and Practical Questions Pertaining to Eugenics''<ref>Phadke, N.S., 1927. Sex Problem in India: Being a Plea for a Eugenic Movement in India and a Study of All Theoretical and Practical Questions Pertaining to Eugenics. DB Taraporevala Sons & Company.</ref>
*Where Angels Sell Eggs, and Other Stories in English <ref>Jain, S.K., 1969. A Select Bibliography of Indian Short Stories and Historical Fiction in English. Indian Literature, pp.76-92.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100327035348/http://www.naasiphadke.com/defaultc.htm

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[[Category:Writers from Mumbai]]
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