Anant Viththal Keer

Anant Viththal Keer (Devanagari: अनंत विठ्ठल कीर) (1913–1984) was a biographer from Maharashtra, India. He wrote biographies in English and Marathi under the pen name Dhananajay Keer (धनंजय कीर).

Keer was born on April 23, 1913 in Ratnagiri. After finishing his elementary education, he worked for a few years with his father in the father's profession of carpentry, and then finished his high school education in 1935 at age 22. He took a few clerical jobs after that, and in 1943 started writing articles in English newspapers.

Biographical works

In English:

• Savarakar and His Times (1950)
• Dr. Ambedkar : Life and Mission (1954)
• Lokamanya Tilak : Father of Our Freedom Struggle (1959)
• Mahatma Jyotirao Phule : Father of Our Social Revolution (1964)
• Mahatma Gandhi : Political Saint and Unarmed Prophet (1973)
• Shahu Chhatrapati : A Royal Revolutionary (1976)

In Marathi:

• Mahatma Phule : Samagra Wangmay (1969) (Coeditor S. G. Malshe)
• Lokamanya Tilak Ani Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj : Ek Mulyamapan (1971)
• Teen Mahan Saraswat (1979)
• Hyani Itihas Ghadawila (1980)