Abhinav-Bhoj Kavi-Kul-Chandra Sahitya-Saroj Raja Kamlanand Singh

Raja Kamlanand Singh

Kumar Ganganand Singh,Raja Kamlanand Singh and Badki Daijee

Abhinav-Bhoj Kavi-Kul-Chandra Sahitya-Saroj Raja Kamlanand Singh

Raja Kamlanand Singh (Otiginal Photograph)

Abhinav-Bhoj Kavi-Kul-Chandra Sahitya-Saroj Raja Kamlanand Singh

Raja Kamlanand Singh and his Durbari

Raja Kamlanand Singh

Raja Kamlanand Singh was born on 27th May 1876. From the very childhood, his interest in Hindi Literature was very high. He also translated the ANAND MATH into Hindi. He was decorated with the title of Abhinav {Dwitiya} Bhoj by the contemporary Kavi Samaj. He received a similar title of Kavi-kul-chandra from Bharat Dharma Mahamandal but the most widely known was Sahitya-Saroj(which means the lotus of literature) which was conferred upon him by the Rasik-kavi-Sabha of Kanpur. He also used ‘Saroj’ as his name in his works. He along with his younger brother Raja Kalikanand Singh built the Palace of Srinagar which caught fire in 1932. And in this fire, the entire library which contained priceless works of his were brought to ashes. And at last at the age of 35 on "14th April 1910", he died due to dysentery.