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{{Short description|Indian writer of Hindi language}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Hemlata Mahishwar
| alt = This person
| image = Hemlata_Mahishwar_IMG_1175.JPG
| native_name = हेमलता महिश्वर
| native_name_lang = Hi
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|11|5|df=y}}
| birth_place = Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh, India
| education = B.A., M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D.
| occupation = Author, writer, academician
}}

'''Hemlata Mahishwar''' (born 5 November 1966) is an Indian Hindi writer,<ref>{{Cite web |last=डेस्‍क |first=FP Desk एफपी |date=2020-12-28 |title=मनुस्मृति दहन दिवस की मंगलकामना पर द्विजों को आपत्ति, हेमलता महिश्वर के घर पहुंची पुलिस |url=https://www.forwardpress.in/2020/12/news-manusmriti-hemlata-mahishwar-hindi/ |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=[[Forward Press]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-09 |title=رام چرت ماناس: قدیم ہندو نظم جس نے انڈیا میں سیاسی طوفان برپا کر دیا |url=https://www.bbc.com/urdu/articles/cv2np49e1xmo |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=BBC News اردو |language=ur}}</ref> literary critic, and scholar specializing in [[Dalit]] literature and women's studies.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-03-03 |title=शोषित महिलांनी प्रतिसंस्कृतीची निर्मिती केली पाहिजे : हेमलता महिश्वर |url=https://www.lokmat.com/amravati/exploited-women-should-create-counter-culture-said-ambedkarite-thinker-hemalatha-mahishwar-a736/ |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Lokmat |language=mr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=SC-ST वर्गों में उपवर्गीकरण: सुप्रीम कोर्ट के फैसले से गुस्साए बहुजन बोले- 2 अप्रैल 2018 का आंदोलन याद है ना? |url=https://m.themooknayak.com/article/society/black-day-for-dalit-and-adivasi-communities-activists-and-academics-decry-supreme-court-ruling-on-sc-st-sub-classification/288738c2-c920-41ae-b85a-b079c05693a1 |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=www.themooknayak.com |language=hi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Aruna |first=D. |date=2021 |title=Hindi Evam Marathi Dalit Stree Atmakathaon Mein Stree Asmita Ka Prashn |url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/405712 |journal=University |language=Hindi}}</ref><ref>https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/kervan/article/download/1676/1461</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Hemlata was born on 5 November 1966, in [[Balaghat district|Balaghat]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], India.<ref>{{Cite web |title=گاندھی ہمارا ماضی تھا، گاندھی ہمارا حال اور گاندھی ہمارا مستقبل: تارا گاندھی |url=https://www.urdu.awazthevoice.in/india-news/gandhi-was-our-past-gandhi-our-present-and-gandhi-our-future-tara-gandhi-25713.html |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=urdu.awazthevoice.in |language=ur}}</ref> Her father, Ramprasad Meshram, worked as a food inspector, while her mother, Premlata Meshram, was a homemaker. Due to her father's frequent transfers to small villages and towns,<ref name=":0" /> continuing education in one place was challenging. Hemlata's schooling journey took her across various locations: she studied from first to third grade in [[Raipur]], fourth and fifth in Saraipali,<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-02-09 |title=Ramcharitmanas: The Hindu epic poem causing a political storm in India |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64556116 |access-date=2025-01-25 |language=en-GB}}</ref> sixth and seventh in Balaghat, and eighth and ninth in Bastar.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dalit Literature and Ambedkar: In Conversation with Hemlata Mahishwar |url=https://www.sahapedia.org/dalit-literature-and-ambedkar-conversation-hemlata-mahishwar |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Sahapedia |language=en}}</ref> She completed her higher secondary education in 1983 at the Government Girls' High School,<ref>{{Cite web |title=प्रेस विज्ञप्ति {{!}} 05 फरवरी 2019 {{!}} दलित साहित्य महोत्सव : देश भर से लगभग 15 भाषाओं से आये प्रसिद्द साहित्यकारों, कलाकारों, और सामाजिक कार्यकर्ताओं ने कई महत्वपूर्ण पहलुओं पर किया विमर्श; लक्ष्मण गायकवाड़, बल्ली सिंह चीमा, मोहन दास नैमिशराय, अब्दुल बिस्मिल्लाह, हेमलता महिश्वर, निर्मला पुतुल, चौथीराम यादव, मेधा पाटकर व कई अन्य हुए शामिल – Dalit Literature Festival |url=https://dalitlitfest.org/2019/02/05/press-release-05-feb/ |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=dalitlitfest.org}}</ref> Kalibadi, Bastar. Hemlata pursued her [[Bachelor of Arts|Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)]] and [[Master of Arts]] (M.A.) in [[Hindi literature]] from Durga College, [[Raipur]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=साहित्यकार, लेखक व पत्रकारों की अभिव्यक्ति की आजादी बरकरार रखने साहित्यकारों ने निकाली रैली |url=https://www.bhaskar.com/chh-bil-omc-mat-latest-bilaspur-news-031005-952124-nor.html |work=Dainik Bhaskar}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=लेखक हेमलता महिश्वर का व्यक्तित्व HEMLATA MAHISHWAR |url=https://www.hindisamay.com/writer/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0-HEMLATA-MAHISHWAR.cspx?id=2124 |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=www.hindisamay.com}}</ref> She eventually completed a B.Ed., M.Phil., and Ph.D.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-01-06 |title=हेमलता महिश्वर — साहित्य गंगा |url=https://sahityaganga.com/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0/ |access-date=2025-01-25 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Swayamsiddhaa |title=दलित साहित्य की सशक्त हस्ताक्षर हेमलता महिश्वर |url=https://www.swayamsiddhaa.com/post/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0 |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=swayamsiddha |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sahitya Akademi |url=https://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/pdf/DalitChetana_28-7-2020.pdf |website=sahitya-akademi}}</ref>

== Career ==
Since 2010, she has served as a [[professor]] in the department of Hindi at [[Jamia Millia Islamia]], [[New Delhi]], India. Prior to this, she was the head of the department of Hindi at [[Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya]], [[Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh|Bilaspur]], Chhattisgarh, where she contributed from 1989 to 2010.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UzElAQAAIAAJ&q=Hemlata+Mahishwar |title=Commonwealth Universities Yearbook |date=1997 |publisher=Association of Commonwealth Universities. |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=चाकू समय में हथेलियां: लोकतांत्रिक स्‍पेस तलाशती स्त्रियों की कहानियां {{!}} न्यूज़क्लिक |url=https://hindi.newsclick.in/Chaku-samay-mein-Hatheliyan-Stories-of-Women-Searching-for-Democratic-Space |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240830101918/https://hindi.newsclick.in/Chaku-samay-mein-Hatheliyan-Stories-of-Women-Searching-for-Democratic-Space |archive-date=2024-08-30 |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=न्यूज़क्लिक |language=en |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Khan |first=Imran |title=सिरपुर में अंतर्राष्ट्रीय बौद्ध महोत्सव का आगाज Babuaa.com, Digital Platform of Sumup Magazine and Sumupmail |url=https://babuaa.com/news/view/26293 |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=babuaa.com}}</ref>

== Selected works ==
* {{Cite book |last=Mahishwar |first=Hemlata |title=Samkaleen Sahitya Aur Vimarsh |date=1 January 2019 |publisher=GPS Books |isbn=978-8193899502 |edition=1st |location=India |publication-date=2019 |language=Hi}}
* {{Cite book |last=Mahishwar |first=Hemlata |title=Stri Lekhan Aur Samay Ke Sarokar |date=2008 |publisher=Shilpayan, Delhi |isbn=978-8188080083 |edition=1st |location=Delhi |publication-date=2008 |language=Hi}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=हेमलता माहीश्‍वर |url=http://library.cutn.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=13931 |title=स्त्री लेखन और समय के सरोकार: Stri Lekhan Aur Samay Ke Sarokar | publisher=Shilpayan, Delhi |isbn=978-81-88080-08-3}}</ref>
* {{Cite book |last=महिश्वर |first=प्रो. हेमलता |title=Dalit Sahitya Ki Charchit Prem Kahaniya |date=1 January 2019 |publisher=GPS Books |isbn=978-8193899502 |edition=1st |location=Delhi |publication-date=2019 |language=Hi}}
* {{Cite book |last=Mahishwar |first=Hemlata |url=https://samkaleenjanmat.in/the-question-of-communalism-and-dalit-women-poetry-by-bajrang-bihari-tiwari/ |title=Neel Neele Rang Ke |date=2015 |edition=1st |location=India |publication-date=2015 |language=Hi}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-12-26 |title=साहित्य इस बरस |url=https://www.jansatta.com/sunday-column/literature-authorship-year-2015/57217/ |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Jansatta |language=hi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=दलित साहित्य का समकालीन परिदृश्य/Dalit Sahitya ka Samkaleen Paridrishya/ |url=https://www.sahapedia.org/%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4-%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF-%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A8-%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AFdalit-sahitya-ka-samkaleen-paridrishya |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Sahapedia |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=भारती |first=Kanwal bharti कंवल |date=2023-04-24 |title=हेमलता महिश्वर की दलित चेतना पर प्रश्न चिन्ह लगातीं उनकी कविताएं |url=https://www.forwardpress.in/2023/04/dalit-literature-hemlata-mahishwar/ |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Forward Press |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=युद्धरत आम आदमी |url=https://dbutec5fghzah.cloudfront.net/Images/preview/4052_preview.pdf}}</ref>
* {{Cite book |last=Mahishwar |first=Hemlata |url=https://srapcollege.co.in/unki-jijivisha-dangarsha |title=Unki Jijivisha Dangarsha |date=2008 |publisher=Samiksha Publication |isbn=978-8190378413 |edition=1st |location=Delhi |publication-date=2008 |language=Hi}}

== Publications ==
* Rashtriya Asmita: Ek Bhartiy Drishtikon Rashtriy Asmita: Ek Bhartiy Drishtikon Anytha, Editor: Krishn Kishor. 1 Jun 2008{{fact|date=July 2025}}
* Bhasha Aur BhashaheentaBhasha Aur Bhashaheenta Kriti Sanskriti SANDHAN. 1 Jan 2005{{fact|date=July 2025}}

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{Cite news |last=वाल्मीकि |first=राज |date=10 July 2022 |title="देश की जनता अभी भी प्रजा बनी हुई है, उसने नागरिक बनना नहीं सीखा" |url=https://hindi.newsclick.in/The-people-of-the-country-still-remain-subjects-they-have-not-learned-to-be-citizens |work=[[Newsclick]]}}
* [https://www.forwardpress.in/author/hemlata-maheshwar/ Hemlata Mahishwar] author at [[Forward Press]]

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Mokx71 at 06:46, 14 March 2026