Vaman Malhar Joshi

Vaman Malhar Joshi was a Marathi writer from Bombay Presidency, British India.

Early life

Joshi was born in a Deshastha Brahmin family on 21 January 1882, in the town of Tale in the Konkan region of Maharashtra. After finishing his high school education in 1900, he studied at Deccan College in Pune to receive his bachelor's and master's degrees in Philosophy in 1904 and 1906, respectively.

Joshi served thereafter for a few years as a teacher in a nationalistic high school. beginning in 1908, he also served as the editor of a nationalistic monthly Wishwa Wrutta. Soon after 1908, British authorities imposed a three-year imprisonment with hard labor on him for the “crime" of publishing in Wishwa Wrutta some "inflammatory" articles suggesting overthrow of the British rule.
After release from the prison, Joshi worked for two years as the editor of Lokamanya Tilak's daily Kesari. In 1918, he joined the teaching staff of the Women's University which Bharat Ratna Dhondo Keshav Karve had founded two years earlier,. He taught philosophy, psychology, and English and Marathi literature at the university. Later he became the principal of the university.
Joshi presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Margao, Goa in 1930.

Ragini Ashramharini Nalini Indu Kale Va Sarala Bhole Sushilecha Dev Smruti-Lahari

Waman Malhar Joshi Va. Ma. Joshi Sahitya-Darshan