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| name = Ganesh Trimbak Deshpande<br />
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| birth_date ={{Birth date|1910|08|14}}<br />
| birth_place = Wadnergangai, [[Amravati district]], [[Bombay Presidency]] (now part of [[Maharashtra]])<br />
| death_date ={{Death date and age|1989|11|18|1910|08|14}}<br />
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| nationality = Indian<br />
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| occupation = scholar, academic, poet, literary critic, professor<br />
| workplaces = [[Nagpur University]], [[Nagpur]]<br />
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| main_interests =[[Vedas]], [[Vedanta]], [[Hindu philosophy]]<br />
|alma_mater= [[Nagpur University]]<br />
| awards = 1959: [[Sahitya Akademi Award]]<br />
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'''Ganesh Trimbak Deshpande''' (14 August 1910 - 18 November 1989), was an Indian writer, scholar and critic from [[Maharashtra]]. Deshpande has authored more than 12 classical works. He has attained international renown and recognition by his scholarly contribution to literary treasure. His ''Bharatiya Sahitya Shastra'' work published in 1958, brought him the highest national literary distinction of [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1959.<ref>{{cite book|title=Sahitya Akademi awards: books and writers : 1955-1978|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FkkOAQAAMAAJ|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|year=1990|page=294|isbn = 9788172010140}}</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
G. T. Deshpande was born in <br />
a [[Deshastha Brahmin]] family on 14 August 1910 in Wadnergangai,a village in [[Amravati district]] of [[Maharashtra]]. Deshpande studied law after his graduation with Sanskrit as one of the subjects for [[Bachelor of Arts]] in 1934 and [[Master of Arts]] in Sanskrit in 1940 from [[Nagpur University]]. Deshpande started his career as an advocate. Deshpande taught Sanskrit and Law in Shivaji Arts College, Amravati from (1946 - 1958). He later joined Department of Sanskrit in [[Nagpur University]] as professor and worked from (1959 - 1972) and was the Head of the Department of Humanities from (1968 - 1972).<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopaedic dictionary of Marathi literature| <br />
url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nrR9D_ydGwoC&pg=PA139|author=Sunita Deshpande|publisher=Global Vision Publishing House|year=2007|page=139|isbn = 9788182202214}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
Deshpande has authored more than 12 classical works om Vedas, Alankarashastra, Grammar and Indian Philosophy.<br />
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*{{Cite book|title=Bharatiya Sahitya Shastra|publisher=Popular Prakashan|year=1958}}<br />
*Alankar Pradeep<br />
*Sankhya Karika<br />
*{{Cite book|title=Indological papers|publisher=Vidarbha Samshodhan Mandal|year=1971}}<br />
*{{Cite book|title=Abhinavagupta|publisher=Sahitya Akademi Publications|year=1989}}<br />
*{{Cite book|title=Pre-Paninian Grammar|publisher=Popular Prakashan|year=2011|isbn=978-8171548934}}<br />
*{{Cite book|title=Indian Poetics|publisher=Popular Prakashan|year=2009|isbn=978-8179912850}}<br />
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==Awards and honours==<br />
*1959 : [[Sahitya Akademi Award]]<br />
* D.Litt., 1960: [[Nagpur University]], [[Nagpur]], India<br />
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===Bibliography===<br />
*{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Indian philosophies. 1, Bibliography : Section 1, Volumes 1-2|first=Karl H.|last=Potter|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publications|year=1995 |isbn=978-8120803084}}<br />
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