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Place of Birth: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
About Namvar Singh
- Namvar Singh (28 July 1926 – 19 February 2019) was an Indian literary critic, linguist, academician and theoretician.
- He received his doctorate degree from Banaras Hindu University where he also taught for some time.
- He served as a professor of Hindi literature in several other universities.
- He was the founder and first chairman of Jawaharlal Nehru University's Centre of Indian Languages and continued to remain as a professor emeritus after his retirement in 1992.
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