Gangadhar Gopal Gadgil, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Indian writer
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Place of Birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
About Gangadhar Gopal Gadgil
- Gangadhar Gopal Gadgil (25 August 1923 – 15 September 2008) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He was born in Mumbai in 1923.
- After receiving a master's degree in economics from the University of Mumbai, he worked as a professor of economics at Sydenham College and also a few other colleges in Mumbai.
- He was the first principal of well known Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics from 1964-71.
- Gadgil served as Vice-president and member of the General Council of the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, from 1988-93.
- He served as the President of the Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh from 1983-1999.
- Gadgil was a prolific and multi-faceted writer, with published work in Economics, Literature, Biography, Literary Criticism and Travel Writing.
- The Library of Congress, South Asian Literary Recordings Project has recordings of his reading from six of his books.
- They have also acquired sixty-five of his books for their collection.
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