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'''Gopi Chand Narang''' (born 11 February 1931) is an Indian theorist, literary critic and scholar who writes in [[Urdu]] and English. His Urdu literary criticism has incorporated a range of modern theoretical frameworks including stylistics, [[structuralism]], [[post-structuralism]] and Eastern [[poetics]].

==Early life==
Narang was born in [[Duki, Pakistan|Dukki]], a small town in [[Balochistan, Pakistan|Balochistan]], British India (now Pakistan) to a [[Saraiki people|Saraiki]] family.<ref name="HT">{{cite news|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/interview-urdu-scholar-and-critic-gopi-chand-narang/story-0Fc5P2FQFYIu4h7D6B7F0J.html|title=Interview: Urdu scholar and critic, Gopi Chand Narang|work=Hindustan Times|date=20 August 2020|access-date=3 December 2020|first=Nawaid|last=Anjum|quote=I was born in the small town of Dukki in Balochistan, which is on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. I fondly remember the intellectually nurturing influence of my father, Dharam Chand Narang, who was a scholar of Sanskrit and Persian. The language that was spoken at home was Saraiki, which is a beautiful mix of Indic and Western Punjabi.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2004/16-31Mar04-Print-Edition/1603200422.htm|title=High priest of Urdu: Gopi Chand Narang|work=Milli Gazette|date=31 March 2004|access-date=3 December 2020|first=Firoz Bakht|last=Ahmed|quote=Having been brought up in the dry, mountainous terrain of Balluchistan and his mother tongue being Saraiki (a blend of western Punjabi, Sindhi and Pushto), his background conspired against him. Even at his school Musa Khail, Pushto was the medium but he held the fort for Urdu.}}</ref> His father Dharam Chand Narang was a litterateur himself, and a scholar of [[Persian language|Persian]] and [[Sanskrit]], who inspired Gopi's interest in literature.<ref name="HT"/>

==Education==
Narang received a master's degree in Urdu from the [[University of Delhi]], and a research fellowship from the Ministry of Education to complete his PhD in 1958.

==Teaching career==
Narang taught [[Urdu literature]] at [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St. Stephen's College]] (1957–58) before joining [[Delhi University]], where he became a reader in 1961. In 1963 and 1968 he was a [[visiting professor]] at the [[University of Wisconsin]], also teaching at the [[University of Minnesota]] and the [[University of Oslo]]. Narang joined [[Jamia Millia Islamia University]] in New Delhi as a professor in 1974, rejoining the University of Delhi from 1986 to 1995. In 2005, the university named him a professor emeritus.

Narang's first book (''Karkhandari Dialect of Delhi Urdu'') was published in 1961, a [[Sociolinguistics|sociolinguistic]] analysis of a neglected dialect spoken by indigenous workers and artisans Delhi. He has published over 60 books in Urdu, English, and [[Hindi]].

==Achievements==
He has produced three studies: ''Hindustani Qisson se Makhooz Urdu Masnaviyan'' (1961), ''Urdu Ghazal aur Hindustani Zehn-o-Tehzeeb'' (2002) ''and Hindustan ki Tehreek-e-Azadi aur Urdu Shairi'' (2003). Narang's related volumes—''[[Amir Khusrow]] ka Hindavi Kalaam'' (1987), ''Saniha-e-Karbala bataur Sheri Isti'ara'' (1986) and ''Urdu Zabaan aur Lisaniyaat'' (2006)—are socio-cultural and historical studies.

In addition to teaching, Narang was vice-chairman of the Delhi Urdu Academy (1996–1999) and the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language – HRD (1998–2004) and vice-president (1998–2002) and president (2003–2007) of the [[Sahitya Akademi]].

==Honours==
Narang has been recognized for his work. He was an Indira Gandhi Memorial Fellow of the [[Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts]] from 2002 to 2004, and a 1997 resident of the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy. Narang received the Mazzini Gold Medal (Italy, 2005), the Amir Khusrow Award (Chicago, 1987), a Canadian Academy of Urdu Language and Literature Award (Toronto, 1987), an Association of Asian Studies (Mid-Atlantic Region) Award (US, 1982), a European Urdu Writers Society Award (London, 2005), an Urdu Markaz International Award (Los Angeles, 1995) and an Alami Farogh-e-Urdu Adab Award ([[Doha]], 1998). He is the only Urdu writer honoured by the presidents of both India and Pakistan. In 1977 Narang received the President's National Gold Medal from Pakistan for his work on Allama Iqbal, and received a [[Padma Bhushan]] (2004) and [[Padma Shri]] (1990) from India.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=2015-07-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=2014-11-15 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> He received honorary [[Doctor of Letters]] degrees from Aligarh Muslim University (2009), Maulana Azad National Urdu University (2008) and the Central University in Hyderabad (2007). Narang received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1995, the Ghalib Award in 1985, Urdu Academy's Bahadur Shah Zafar Award, Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award (both in 2010), Madhya Pradesh Iqbal Samman (2011) and the Bharatiya Jnanpith Moorti Devi Award (2012). The Sahitya Akademi conferred on Narang its highest honour, the Fellowship, in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/fellows/fellows_and_honorary_fellows.jsp|title=Fellows & Honorary Fellows|website=Sahitya Akademi|access-date=2014-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701054145/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/fellows/fellows_and_honorary_fellows.jsp|archive-date=2017-07-01|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Plagiarism and controversies==

There have been allegations of [[plagiarism]] against Gopi Chand Narang for copying and translating from secondary sources major portions of his Sahitya Akademi award-winning book ''Sakhtiyat, Pas-Sakhtiyat aur Mashriqui Sheriyat'' (Structuralism, Post-Structuralism and Eastern Poetics).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/Plagiarize-And-Prosper/260108 |title=Plagiarize And Prosper | C.M. Naim |publisher=Outlookindia.com |access-date=2014-08-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/The-Emperors-New-Clothes/261517 |title=The Emperor's New Clothes | C.M. Naim |publisher=Outlookindia.com |access-date=2014-08-20}}</ref> There have also been allegations of corruption and controversial appointments under his Presidency of [[Sahitya Akademi]], which he headed from 2003 to 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/War-And-No-Peace/231485 |title=War And No Peace | Sugata Srinivasaraju |publisher=Outlookindia.com |access-date=2014-08-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/Bibliofile/223217 |title=Bibliofile |publisher=Outlookindia.com |access-date=2014-08-20}}</ref> He has denied these allegations of corruption.<ref name="kitaab">{{cite web|url=https://kitaab.org/2018/10/05/writing-matters-in-conversation-with-dr-gopi-chand-narang/|title=Writing Matters: In conversation with Dr Gopi Chand Narang|website=kitaab|access-date=2020-06-15}}</ref>

However, the said malicious charges have been refuted in a recent article ‘How author and critic Gopi Chand Narang survived a maligning campaign’. The author has clearly stated that Gopi Chand Narang was targeted for his criticism of unrealistic Modernism in Urdu. It was mere propaganda against him that cannot stand the literary scrutiny or any serious debate, those who tried to malign him had no understanding of his work or literary motifs. <ref>https://cafedissensusblog.com/2018/04/25/how-author-and-critic-gopi-chand-narang-survived-a-maligning-campaign/</ref>

==Bibliography==
Narang has published more than 60 scholarly and critical books on language, literature, poetics and cultural studies; many have been translated into other Indian languages.

===Urdu===
* ''Hindustani Qisson Se Makhuz Urdu Masnawiyan'' (1961)
* ''Iqbal Ka Fann'' (ed. 1983)
* ''Usloobiyat- e-Mir'' (1985)
* ''Urdu Afsana, Riwayat Aur Masail'' (ed. 1986)
* ''Saniha-e-Karbala Bataur Sheri Isti’ara'' (1986)
* ''Amir Khusrau Ka Hindavi Kalaam'' (1987)
* ''Adbi Tanqeed Aur Usloobiyat'' (1989)
* ''Sakhtiyat, Pas-Sakhtiyat aur Mashriqui Sheriyat'' (1993)
* ''Urdu Ghazal aur Hindustani Zehn-o Tahzeeb'' (2002)
* ''Hindustan ki Tehreek-e-Azadi aur Urdu Shairi'' (2003)
* ''Taraqqi Pasandi, Jadidiat, Maba’d-e-Jadidiat'' (2004)
* ''Jadidiat ke baad'' (2005)
* ''Urdu Zaban aur Lisaniyat'' (2006)
* ''Dekhna Taqreer ki Lazzat'' (2009)
* ''Fiction Sheriyat'' (2009)
* ''Kaghaz-e Atish Zadah'' (2011)
* ''Tapish Nama-e Tamanna'' (2012)
* ''Aaj ki Kahaniyan'' (2013)
* ''Ghalib : Ma'ni-Afrini, Jadliyaati Waza', Shunyata aur Sheriyaat (Ghalib : Meaning, Mind, Dialectical Thought & Poetics)'' (2013)

===English===
* ''Karkhandari Dialect of Delhi Urdu'' (1961)
* ''Urdu Language and Literature: Critical Perspectives'' (1991)
* ''Readings in Literary Urdu Prose'' (ed. 1965)
* ''Rajinder Singh Bedi: Selected Short Stories'' (ed. 1989)
* ''Krishan Chander: Selected Short Stories'' (ed. 1990)
* ''Balwant Singh: Selected Short Stories'' (ed. 1996)
* ''Let's Learn Urdu'' (2000)

===Hindi===
* ''Amir Khusro ka Hindavi Kalam'' (1987)
* ''Urdu Par Khulta Dareecha'' (2004)
* ''Samrachnavad, Uttar-Samrachnavad evam Prachya Kavyashastra'' (2000)
* ''Urdu Kaise Likhen'' (2001)

==See also==
*[[Ralph Russell]]
*[[David Matthews (academic)]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.gopichandnarang.com Official website]
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/multimedia/2012/07/120728_gopi_chand_narang_iv.shtml?s 2012 BBC interview] {{in lang|ur}}
*[http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2004/16-31Mar04-Print-Edition/1603200422.htm High priest of Urdu: Gopi Chand Narang by Feroze Bakht Ahmed (''Milli Gazette'')]
*[http://www.facenfacts.com/NewsDetails/7663/gopi-chand-narang--versatile-scholar--writer.htm Gopi Chand Narang - Versatile Scholar & Writer] (FacenFacts)

==Further reading==
*Narang, Gopi Chand in ''[[Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature]]'', Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 1989, {{ISBN|81-260-1804-6}}.
*''Jadeed Adabi Theory aur Gopi Chand Narang'' by Maula Bakhsh, New Delhi, 2009, {{ISBN|978-81-8223-536-6}}.
*''Deedawar Naqqad'' by Shahzad Anjum, New Delhi, 2002, {{ISBN|8187667648}}.
*Insha Special number on Gopi Chand Narang, ed. by F. S. Ejaz, Kolkata, 2005, {{ISBN|8186346198}}.
*''Gopi Chand Narang: Bainul Aqwami Urdu Shakhsiyat'', ed. by Nand Kishore Vikram, New Delhi 2008, {{ISBN|9788188298020}}.
*''Kaarwan-e Adab''{{'}}s special issue on Gopi Chand Narang, ed. by Javed Yazdani and Kausar Siddiqui, Bhopal, March 2012. RNI No.: MPURD/2005/16563.

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