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| author = [[Tribhuvandas Luhar]] 'Sundaram';
| title_orig = અર્વાચીન કવિતા
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| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
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| subject = [[Gujarati literature|Gujarati poetry]]
| genre = [[History of literature]]
| publisher = [[Gujarat Vernacular Society]]
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| pub_date = 1946
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| awards = Mahida Prize (1946)
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'''Arvachin Kavita''' ({{IPA-gu|ərvɑːtʃiːn kʌvɪtɑ|pron|}}) is a 1946 critical work by [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] writer, poet and critic [[Tribhuvandas Luhar]], pen-name 'Sundaram'. The book offers a historical and critical survey of modern [[Gujarati literature|Gujarati poetry]] from 1845 to 1945.<ref name="ShastriLal1974">{{cite book|first1=Prithvinath |last1=Shastri|first2=P.|last2=Lal|title=The Writers Workshop Handbook of Gujarati Literature (A-F.)|volume=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IacuAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Writers Workshop|location=Calcutta|page=23|oclc=2236764}}</ref>

==Publication history==
As mentioned in the preface, Sundaram was asked by [[Gujarat Vernacular Society]] to write a history of Gujarati poetry written during 1845 to 1945.<ref name="Suthar2008">{{cite journal|last=Suthar|first=Babu|author-link=Babu Suthar|date=February 2008|title=સાહિત્યના ઈતિહાસની વિભાવના: 'અર્વાચીન કવિતા'ના આધારે|trans-title=The Concept of History of Literature: On the base of 'Arvācīna Kavitā'|language=gu|journal=Tathapi|editor-last=Bhogayata|editor-first=Jayesh|location=Vadodara|issue=10|pages=62–73}}</ref> Sundaram consulted the works of about 350 poets, and out of these he assessed 250 poets and their work in this book.<ref name="Topiwala1990">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Topiwala|first=Chandrakant|author-link=Chandrakant Topiwala|title=Arvācīna Kavitā|url=http://www.gujaratisahityaparishad.com/prakashan/sarjako/savishesh/Savishesh-Sundaram.html|encyclopedia=ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યકોશ: અર્વાચીનકાળ [Encyclopedia of Gujarati Literature: Modern Era]|editor-last=Topiwala|editor-first=Chandrakant|volume=2|year=1990|edition=1st|publisher=[[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]]|location=Ahmedabad|language=gu|page=11|oclc=164924054}}</ref> The book was first published in 1946. Its third edition was published in 1965 by [[Gujarat Vidhya Sabha]].<ref name="ShastriLal1974"/><ref name="Suthar2008"/>

==Content==
The book presents an outline of the history of modern Gujarati poetry, and deals with the main currents of modern Gujarati poetry as it developed during a period of eighty years (1845–1945).<ref name="ShastriLal1974"/><ref name="Jhaveri1978">{{cite book|last=Jhaveri|first=Mansukhlal Maganlal|authorlink=Mansukhlal Jhaveri|title=History of Gujarati Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DA0RAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|page=196|oclc=462837743}}</ref> The poems evaluated here are divided into two sections: new current and old current.<ref name="Topiwala1990"/>

The appendix includes information about translations from [[Sanskrit]], English, [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Hindi]], [[Urdu]]; and about some collection of [[ghazal]]s, folk-songs and devotional songs, [[Rasa (literary form)|Rasa]], patriotic poems and songs. An index of books and authors is given at the end of the book.<ref name="ShastriLal1974"/>

==Reception==
Since it publication, ''Arvachin Kavita'' remained as the most significant critical landmark of Gujarati literature. It has been described as 'classic' and 'monumental' work.<ref name="Datta1987">{{cite book|editor-first=Amaresh|editor-last=Datta|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&pg=PA786|year=1987|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-260-1803-1|page=786}}</ref><ref name="Lal1992">{{cite book|editor-first=Mohan|editor-last=Lal|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnPoYxrRfc0C&pg=PA4227|year=1992|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-260-1221-3|page=4227}}</ref><ref name="Banerjee2018">{{cite web|last=Banerjee|first=Anurag|title=Sundaram—The Poet by Anuben Ambalal Purani|publisher=Overman Foundation|date=25 July 2018|url=http://overmanfoundation.org/2018/07/25/sundaram-the-poet-by-anuben-ambalal-purani/|access-date=28 December 2018}}</ref> It was awarded Mahida Prize in 1946.<ref name="Lal1992"/>

Gujarati poet and critic [[Mansukhlal Jhaveri]] called it 'unique and unparalleled in Gujarati literature'.<ref name="Jhaveri1978"/> [[Chandrakant Topiwala]] acclaimed the book and wrote that, "...this is a trustworthy historical study of modern Gujarati poetry conducted with [[close reading]] and careful analysis of the texts".<ref name="Topiwala1990"/> [[Babu Suthar]], a critic of new generation, noted in one of his article that ''Arvachin Kavita'' is a kind of history that satisfies the conditions of Encyclopedic history and Narrative history.<ref name="Suthar2008"/>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Internet archive|id=in.ernet.dli.2015.259485}}

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