27-657: The Jnanpith Award is the oldest and the highest Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature". Instituted in 1961, the award is bestowed only on Indian writers writing in Indian languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India and English, with no posthumous conferral. From 1965 till 1981,
54-587: A college for a graduate degree, receiving first a B.A. degree from Jammu and Kashmir University , Srinagar , and subsequently an M.A. degree in Political Science and a PhD from University of Delhi . In 1950, the 19-year-old Karan Singh was married to 13-year-old Yasho Rajya Lakshmi, granddaughter of Mohan Shumsher Rana, Maharajah of Nepal , belonging to the Rana dynasty of Nepal . Her father, General Maharajkumar Sharada Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana,
81-549: A literary and research organization, based in New Delhi, India, was founded on February 18, 1944 by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain of the Sahu Jain family and his wife Rama Jain to undertake systematic research and publication of Sanskrit , Prakrit , Pali and Apabhramsha texts and covering subjects like religion, philosophy, logic, ethics, grammar, astrology, poetics, etc. Its research and publication programme started with
108-570: Is constituted for each of the languages. The language of the most recent recipient's work is not eligible for consideration for the next two years. Each committee consists of three literary critics and scholars of their respective languages. All the nominations are scrutinised by the committee and their recommendations are submitted to the Jnanpith Award Selection Board. The Selection Board consists of between seven and eleven members of "high repute and integrity". Each member
135-595: Is known for switching his loyalties from one political party to another quite frequently. He has served as Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University , Jammu and Kashmir University, Jawaharlal Nehru University , and NIIT University. He has been engaged by Sansad TV (a merged Global TV Channel of Lok Sabha TV and Rajya Sabha TV ) as a Guest Anchor along with some other senior celebrated experts from diverse fields such as Bibek Debroy , Amitabh Kant , Shashi Tharoor , Hemant Batra , Maroof Raza and Sanjeev Sanyal to present some flagship programmes. Karan Singh served as
162-538: Is part of the committee for a term of three years which can also be extended further for two more terms. The recommendations of all language advisory committees are evaluated by the board based on complete or partial translations of the selected writings of the proposed writers into Hindi or English. The recipient for a particular year is announced by the Selection Board, which has final authority in selection. Bharatiya Jnanpith Bharatiya Jnanpith
189-790: The Jnanpith Awards and the Moortidevi Award . Karan Singh Independent (1984) Karan Singh (born 9 March 1931) is an Indian politician and philosopher. He is the titular Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir . From 1952 to 1965 he was the Sadr-i-Riyasat (President) of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. He is the chairperson trustee of the Dharmarth Trust of Jammu and Kashmir which maintains 175 temples in north India and works in other areas such as historical preservation. Singh
216-799: The Sahu Jain family , conceived an idea in May 1961 to start a scheme "commanding national prestige and of international standard" to "select the best book out of the publications in Indian languages". Later in November, Rama Jain, the Founder President of the Bharatiya Jnanpith, invited a few literary experts to discuss various aspects of the scheme. Jain along with Kaka Kalelkar , Harivansh Rai Bachchan , Ramdhari Singh Dinkar , Jainendra Kumar , Jagdish Chandra Mathur , Prabhakar Machwe, Akshaya Kumar Jain, and Lakshmi Chandra Jain presented
243-892: The Government of India, of which Karan Singh was a Union cabinet minister, abolished all official symbols of princely India , including titles, privileges, and remuneration ( privy purses ). During the conclusion of the Cold War , he was India's ambassador to the USA . Singh received the Padma Vibhushan in 2005. In 1971, he was sent as an envoy to the Eastern Bloc nations to explain India's position with regard to East Pakistan, then engaged in civil war with West Pakistan. He attempted to resign following an aircraft crash in 1973, but
270-581: The award was given to the authors for their "most outstanding work" and consisted of a citation plaque, a cash prize and a bronze replica of Saraswati , the Hindu goddess of knowledge and wisdom. The first recipient of the award was the Malayalam writer G. Sankara Kurup who received the award in 1965 for his collection of poems, Odakkuzhal ( The Bamboo Flute ), published in 1950. The rules were revised in subsequent years to consider only works published during
297-611: The chancellor of Banaras Hindu University for three terms up until 2018. In 2008, he awarded an honorary doctorate to the then prime minister Manmohan Singh , and in 2016, he was asked by university administration to award an honorary doctorate to prime minister Narendra Modi , that the prime minister declined. [REDACTED] India : "In 1974, I led the Indian delegation to the World Population Conference in Bucharest, where my statement that 'development
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#1732772589240324-522: The draft was finalised and later presented to Prasad. The first award selection committee meeting was scheduled on 16 March 1963 and Prasad was appointed as its president. However, Prasad died on 28 February 1963 and thus the scheduled meeting was chaired by Kalelkar and Sampurnanand acted as president of the committee. The first Selection Board consisted of Kalelkar, Niharranjan Ray , Karan Singh , R. R. Diwakar , V. Raghavan , B. Gopal Reddy , Harekrushna Mahatab , Rama Jain, and Lakshmi Chandra Jain and
351-504: The fall of Janata Party government headed by Morarji Desai. And Charan Singh himself resigned without facing Parliament even for a day as he was not sure of having a confidence motion passed in his favour. Karan Singh contested the 1980 Lok Sabha election on a Congress(U) ticket and won. In 1989–1990, he served as Indian Ambassador to the US, and this experience became the subject of a book he wrote, "Brief Sojourn". From 1967 to 1984, Karan Singh
378-599: The first governor of the state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1965 to 1967. On 8 August 1953 as the President ( Sadr-i-Riyasat ) of Jammu and Kashmir, Karan Singh backed a coup d'etat against the elected Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah , allegedly for harboring independent ambitions for Kashmir, which led to the imprisonment of Abdullah for eleven years following the Kashmir Conspiracy Case . In 1967, he resigned as Governor of Jammu and Kashmir , and became
405-427: The first woman to win the award and was honoured for the 1965 novel Prothom Protishruti ( The First Promise ), the first in a trilogy. The most recent recipients of the award are Sanskrit scholar Rambhadracharya and Urdu writer, Bollywood lyricist Gulzar jointly awarded for the year of 2023. The Bharatiya Jnanpith , a research and cultural institute founded in 1944 by industrialist Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain of
432-580: The initial draft to the then President of India Rajendra Prasad who had shown interest in the scheme's implementation. The idea was also discussed at the 1962 annual sessions of the All India Gujarati Sahitya Parishad and the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad. On 2 April 1962, around 300 writers of various Indian languages were invited to Delhi for the two sessions conducted by Dharamvir Bharati in which
459-829: The preceding twenty years, excluding the year for which the award was to be given and the cash prize was increased to ₹ 1.5 lakh (equivalent to ₹ 31 lakh or US$ 37,000 in 2023) from 1981. As of 2015, the cash prize has been revised to ₹ 11 lakh (equivalent to ₹ 17 lakh or US$ 20,000 in 2023) and out of twenty-three eligible languages the award has been presented for works in sixteen languages: Hindi (eleven), Kannada (eight), Bengali and Malayalam (six each), Urdu (five) Gujarati , Marathi , Odia (four each), Assamese and Telugu (three each), Punjabi , Tamil , Konkani and Sanskrit (two each), English, Kashmiri and (one each). The award has been conferred upon fifty-eight writers including eight women authors. In 1976, Bengali novelist Ashapoorna Devi became
486-770: The publication of the Dhavala texts. A Jain temple at Moodabidri in Karnataka , southern India, had stored for centuries its manuscript of palm-leaves. It was a 9th-century commentary in Prakrit and Sanskrit, of a 2nd-century CE work, Satkhandagama , in Prakrit on the Jain doctrine of karma . It has published two series of texts: It annually publishes hundreds of books in Hindi (both original and translated works) and other languages, and also presents India's highest literary awards,
513-753: The resignation was not accepted. The same year, he became the Minister for Health and Family planning, serving in this post until 1977. Following the Emergency, Karan Singh was elected to the Lok Sabha from Udhampur in 1977 on a Congress ticket [the party had not split into Congress(I) and Congress(U) factions till then], and became Minister of Education and Culture in 1979 in Charan Singh's cabinet, representing Congress(U), which had split from Indira's Congress. Notably, Charan Singh became Prime Minister after
540-529: The youngest-ever member of the Union Cabinet, holding the portfolios of Tourism and Civil Aviation between 1967 and 1973. Two years later, he voluntarily surrendered his privy purse, which he had been entitled to since the death of his father in 1961. He placed the entire sum into a charitable trust named after his parents. In the 26th amendment to the Constitution of India promulgated in 1971,
567-683: Was a member of India's Upper House of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha , representing the national capital territory of Delhi . He is a senior member of the Indian National Congress party who served successively as President ( Sadr-i-Riyasat ) and Governor of the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir . He was a life trustee and president of India International Centre . He was elected chancellor of Banaras Hindu University for three terms until 2018 when he
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#1732772589240594-513: Was a member of the Lok Sabha. In 1984, he contested the Lok Sabha polls as an independent candidate from Jammu but lost the election. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 30 November 1996 to 12 August 1999, representing National Conference , a Muslim dominated party active in Jammu and Kashmir . Later, he was a Rajya Sabha member from 28 January 2000 to 27 January 2018 representing INC . He
621-538: Was a son of Mohan Shumsher. The match, arranged by their families in the usual Indian way, lasted all their lives. The couple had three children: In 1949, at age of eighteen, Singh was appointed as the Prince Regent of Jammu and Kashmir state after his father stepped down as the ruler, following the state's accession to India. From that point, he served successively as regent, the Sadr-i-Riyasat , and
648-419: Was educated at Doon School , Dehradun , a boarding school, which represented a departure from the usual practise of princes being educated by tutors at home. The school was very elite, but it nevertheless meant that Karan Singh shared the classroom (though not the hostel) with boys from non-royal backgrounds, and received a standard education. Unusually for the scion of an Indian royal family, he then enrolled in
675-450: Was headed by Sampurnanand. Works that were published between 1921 and 1951 were considered for the first award. The nine language committees that were formed were to submit to the board nominations along with translations of the work into Hindi or English. The final round had four authors; Kazi Nazrul Islam (Bengali), D. V. Gundappa (Kannada), Viswanatha Satyanarayana (Telugu), and G. Sankara Kurup (Malayalam). On 19 November 1966, Kurup
702-570: Was presented with the citation, statue of Saraswati , and a cheque for prize of ₹ 1 lakh (equivalent to ₹ 60 lakh or US$ 72,000 in 2023) at a ceremony held at Vigyan Bhavan , Delhi. In his acceptance speech, Kurup appreciated the concept of the new award and thanked it for bringing "integration of the diverse people of this land on a spiritual plane". The nominations for the award are received from various literary experts, teachers, critics, universities, and numerous literary and language associations. Every three years, an advisory committee
729-680: Was succeeded by Giridhar Malaviya . He has been a prospective presidential candidate over the years. Yuvraj Karan Singh was born at the Martinez Hotel , Cannes , France , into the Dogra dynasty . He was the only son of Sir Hari Singh , Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir . His mother, Maharani Tara Devi , who was the fourth wife of his father, was the daughter of a landowning Katoch Rajput family and came from (Vijaypur near Bilaspur ) in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh . Singh
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