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Sindhi Sahitya Academy
Awards
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. |