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Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya (18 October 1861– 20 April 1938) was a Marathi-language historian and writer from Bombay Presidency, British India. He was Chief Justice of Gwalior State for a period. He was born in a Chitpavan Brahmin family.

In 1908, Vaidya chaired the Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held in Pune. Later, he became involved in the nationalist Congress Democratic Party, which was led by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak.

Works

The following is a list of the titles of his major works:

• Samagra Awalonnati Lekhamālā (1906)
• Mahābhārat — Samālochan (1914)
• Mahābhārat — A Criticism
• Nibandha Aṇi Bhāshaṇẽ (1915)
• Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇ Parīkshaṇ (1920)
• Madhyayugīn Bhārat, Athawā, Hindu Rājyāñchā Udbhav, Utkarsh, Aṇi Uchchhed (1920)
• History of Mediaeval Hindu India, Being a History of India From 600 to 1200 A.D. (in three volumes) (Poona: Oriental Book Supplying Agency, 1921–1926)
• Downfall of Hindu India
• Shrī Kru̥shṇa Charitra (1922)
• Sanskrut Wāngmayāchā Troṭak Itihās (1922)
• Shriman Mahābhāratāche Marāṭhī Suras Bhāshāntar (1922)
• Durdaivī Raṅgū, Athawā, Pānipatachā Shewaṭacha Saṅgrām (1924) - a work of fiction based on the Third Battle of Panipat
• Early History of Rajputs (750 to 1000 A.D.) (Poona, 1924)
• Shrī Rām Charitra (1926)
• History of Sanskrit Literature (1930)
• Hindu Dharmāchi Tatwe, Arthāt, Yāsambandhĩ̄ Niranirāḷyā Wishayānwar Vaidyāni Dileli Wyākhāne Va Lihilele Lekh (1931)
• Vaidyānche Aitihāsik Nibandha (1931)
• Marāṭhā Swarājya Sãsthāpak Shrī Shivājī Mahārāj (1932)
• Shivaji – The Founder of Maratha Swaraj
• Saṅgīt Sãyogitā Nāṭak, Arthāt, Patinishṭhā (1934)
• Epic India, or, India As Described in the Mahabharat and the Ramayan (in two volumes)
• The Riddle of the Rāmāyaṇ
• Marāṭhī Bhāshechi Utpatti

References

Citations

1. Cashman (1975), pp. 176, 187
2. Organiser, Volume 32. Bharat Prakashan. 1980. p. 6. The great Sanskrit scholar C. V. Vaidya, a Chitpavan Brahmin...
3. Cashman (1975), pp. 186–187
4. Das (1995), p. 499

Bibliography

• Cashman, Richard I. (1975), The Myth of the Lokamanya: Tilak and Mass Politics in Maharashtra, University of California Press, ISBN 9780520024076
• Das, Sisir Kumar (1995), History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy (Reprinted ed.), Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989

External links

• Works by or about Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya at the Internet Archive

• Marathi-language writers
• 1861 births
• 1938 deaths
• Chief justices
• Presidents of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
• Writers from British India
• People from Bombay Presidency