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contains the works of the following writers (no females) :
	Amarkant (1925, Ballia District, UP),
	Ramesh Bakshi (1936, Indore),
	Gyanranjan (1936, Allahbad, UP),
	Shekkhar Joshi (1934, Almora),
	Kamleshwar (1932, Manipuri, UP),
	Giriraj Kishore (1936, Muzaffarnagar, UP),
	Ram Kumar (1924, Simla),
	Mohan Rakesh (1925, Amritsar, Punjab),
	Phanishwarnath "Renu" (1921, Bihar),
	Awadh Narain Singh (1933),
	Dudnath Singh (1936),
	Krishna Baldev Vaid (Dunga, Punjab),
	Shrikant Verma (1931, Bilaspur, MP),
	Nirmal Verma (1926, Simla),
	Rajendra Yadav (1929, Agra, UP)

author bio

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Gordon Roadarmel was born in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India on February 2,
1932 of missionary parents. He died in Berkeley on June 15, 1972 shortly
after returning from a period of research in India.

Gordon Roadarmel's early life and experiences in India, where he
graduated from Woodstock School in Mussoorie in 1948, formed the basis of his
later interests and gave him a deep understanding of Indian culture. It was
only after his graduation that he came to the United States... After one year
of study at the Chicago Theological Seminary, he decided against a career in
the ministry and moved to the University of California, Berkeley. He was a
teaching assistant in the Department of English here for two years and
received an M.A. degree in 1957.

After receiving an M.A. in Asian studies (Berkeley) in 1962, he left for
India on a Fulbright fellowship and studied Hindi and Hindi literature at
Allahabad University. It was at Allahabad that he had the opportunity to
become personally acquainted with a number of leading Hindi writers and
critics and form contacts and friendships which he maintained throughout his
academic career. At that time he also began translating Premchand's novel
Godaan under a commission from UNESCO. This major work of modern Hindi
fiction later appeared with the title Gift of a Cow in the UNESCO Collection
of Representative Works, India Series.

Returning to the United States, he became a Carnegie teaching intern in
Indian civilization at the University of Chicago where he remained from 1963
to 1965. In 1965 he returned to Berkeley as an acting assistant professor to
teach Hindi, Indian literature, and civilization. He received his Ph.D. in
Hindi literature in 1969 in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and was
then regularized as assistant professor.
   In July 1971 he again left for India on a Fulbright faculty fellowship to
continue his study of the Hindi short story and the theme of alienation in
modern Hindi writing. In July 1972 he would have received his promotion to
associate professor.

   Gordon Roadarmel was a gifted and innovative teacher who was universally
liked and admired by his students.  The quality of his teaching was
recognized in June 1967 when he was among the first three faculty members at
Berkeley to be given the ASUC Award for Teaching.
   It is perhaps significant that his last scholarly work was on alienation,
although we do not know what pressures--personal, political,
academic--contributed to Gordon's breakdown and death. His death leaves a
great void in American scholarship on India and a sense of personal loss to
family and friends, colleagues, and students.  - William M. Brinner John
J. Gumperz Bruce R. Pray