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After the partition, in
multilingual country India, this was a long struggle
to get recognition for Sindhi language as here
Sindhis were fighting for resettlement of life and
that too in isolated and dispersed population.
Thanks to efforts taken by Sindhi Sahitya Mandal one
of the pioneer literary body of Sindhis in India,
Sindhi language was taken in consideration as the
recognized language for the program on All India
Radio & Sindhi literature for the Sahitya Academy
Award highest literary award of the country in the
year 1957. Tirth Basant was the first to receive
this award only in 1959 for the biography of Bhagat
Kanwarram another significant thing about this award
is that between 1960 - 1963 and in the years 1965,
1967, 1975, 1977 and 1992 no one was honored with
this prestigious award. Year wise list of Academy
Awards with name and
publication title is as given follow. |
