Hajimahamad Allarakha

Hajimahamad Allarakha Shivaji (13 December 1878 — 21 January 1921) was a Gujarati literary journalist and author.

Life

Allarakha was born on 13 December 1878 in Bombay. He was a native of Kutch. He studied Gujarati initially at home, and later studied up to the sixth grade at Fort Highschool in Bombay. After 1895, he studied Hindi, English and Marathi. In order to bring magazine like The Strand Magazine in Gujarati, he founded Visami Sadi (the twentieth century), a pictorial periodical in 1914 and published it from 1916 to 1920.[1][2] He was a connoisseur of art. He died on 21 January 1921.[3]

Works

Cover of 1916 issue of Visami Sadi. Cover Art by M. V. Dhurandhar.

Allarakha is best known for his periodical Visami Sadi. He wrote and translated several works under pen name, Salim. Mogal Rang Mahel and Shish Mahel are his stories. Meharunnisa athwa Shahenshah Jahangir ane Noorjahan no Prem (1904) is his play with Urdu shayaris. Rashida (1908) is his novel.[3]


Suchet Singh established Oriental Film Manufacturing Company of Bombay with help of Allarakha in 1919.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Smt. Hiralaxmi Navanitbhai Shah Dhanya Gurjari Kendra (2007). Gujarat. Gujarat Vishvakosh Trust. p. 457.
  2. ↑ Mansukhlal Maganlal Jhaveri; Sahitya Akademi (1978). History of Gujarati Literature. Sahitya Akademi. p. 153.
  3. 1 2 "હાજી અલારખિયા" (in Gujarati). Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
  4. ↑ K. Moti Gokulsing; Wimal Dissanayake (17 April 2013). Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas. Routledge. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-136-77284-9.

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