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{{Short description|Indian historian (1836–1893)}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = [[Kaviraj]]<br>[[Mahamahopadhyaya]]<br>[[Kaisar-i-Hind]]
| name = Shyamaldas
| image = Kaviraja Shyamaldas portrait at Government of Rajasthan Museum, Udaipur.png
| caption = Kaviraja Shyamaldas portrait at Government of Rajasthan Museum, [[Udaipur]]
| birth_date = 1836
| birth_place = Udaipur, Mewar
| death_date = 1893
| death_place = [[Udaipur]]
| occupation = Historian, Prime Minister of Mewar
| notable_works = Vir Vinod
| title = Mahamahopadhyaya
| spouse = 2
| children = 4
| mother = Aijan Kanwar
| father = Kamji Dadhwadiya
| honours = Kesar-e-Hind (Lion of India)
}}

'''Mahamahopadhayaya''' '''Kaviraja Shyamaldas Dadhivadia''' (1836-1893), popularly referred to as ''Kaviraja'' ([[Hindi]]: king of poets) was one of the early writers involved in documenting the history and culture of what is now [[Rajasthan]] region of [[India]].<ref>[[Sharma, Dasharatha]] (1970) Lectures on Rajput history and culture p1 Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi</ref>

==Authorship==

Shyamaldas co-wrote ( with his father Kayamadana Dadhivadia ) the ''Dipanga Kul Prakash'', an extended narrative poem on the Dodia [[Rajputs]] of Mewar.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dadhivāṛiyā |first=Kāyamadāna |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=96903370&searchType=1&permalink=y |title=Dīpaṅga-kula-prakāśa: Saradāragaṛha ke Ḍoḍiyoṃ kā itihāsa |last2=Śyāmaladāsa |last3=Jāvaliyā |first3=Brajamohana |last4=Jāvaliyā |first4=Śarada |date=1995 |publisher=Pratāpa Śodha Pratishṭhāna, Bhūpāla Nobalsa Saṃsthāna, Udayapura |others=Pratāpa Śodha Pratishṭhāna |edition=1. saṃskaraṇa |series=Rājasthāna gaurava granthamālā |location=Udayapura |language=raj, hi}}</ref> Maharana Sajjan Singh, ruler of [[Udaipur]] ([[princely state]]), assigned Shyamaldas the task of compiling an authentic history of [[Mewar]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Śrivastava |first=Vijai Shankar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nKJiBUFrmfoC&pg=PA37 |title=Cultural Contours of India: Dr. Satya Prakash Felicitation Volume |date=1981 |publisher=Abhinav Publications |isbn=978-0-391-02358-1 |language=en}}</ref> Titled ''Vir Vinod'' ( Hindi: Heroes' Delight ), this is the earliest known comprehensive history written in Mewar.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gupta |first=R. K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S7dCkiyLJ6EC&pg=PA247 |title=Rajasthan Through the Ages |last2=Bakshi |first2=S. R. |date=2008 |publisher=Sarup & Sons |isbn=978-81-7625-841-8 |language=en}}</ref> It reached the public only in 1930 as Maharana Fateh Singh ( Maharana Sajjan Singh's successor) was averse to its publication.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gupta |first=R. K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S7dCkiyLJ6EC&pg=PA255 |title=Rajasthan Through the Ages |last2=Bakshi |first2=S. R. |date=2008 |publisher=Sarup & Sons |isbn=978-81-7625-841-8 |language=en}}</ref>

[[File:Maharana Sajjan Singh of Udaipur with Sirdars, circa 1882.jpg|thumb| Maharana Sajjan Singh of Udaipur with Sirdars. Kaviraja Shyamaldas: sitting, second from the left {{circa}} 1882.]]

==Negotiator and mentor==

Shyamaldas was also a confidant of Maharana Sajjan Singh and was entrusted with the delicate negotiations which resulted in a quick end to the Bhil rebellion of 1881.<ref>Pati, Biswamoy Editor (2000) Issues in modern Indian history p88 Popular Prakashan Pvt Ltd [[Mumbai]] {{ISBN|978-81-7154-658-9}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=S2Yn4LlujqsC&dq=SHYAMALDAS&pg=PA88]</ref> Later, Shyamaldas' pupil, [[Gaurishankar Hirachand Ojha]] also became a famed historian and writer.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

==Honors and awards==

Shyamaldas was honored with the degree of ''Mahamahopadhayaya'' and conferred with the ''Kesar-e-Hind'' ( Lion of India) by the British Government.<ref>Cultural contours of India p37</ref>

==References==
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== Further reading ==

* {{Cite book|last1=Sharma|first1=Nina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1AgOswEACAAJ|title=Becoming a Modern Historian in Princely India: An Intellectual History of Shyamal Das and His Vir Vinod|last2=Shekhar|first2=Indu|publisher=Olympia Publishers|year=2015|isbn=978-1848973213}}

==External links==
*Permalink to Vir Vinod listing in Library of Congress catalog [http://lccn.loc.gov/2007342511]
*University of Chicago Library Catalog [https://libcat.uchicago.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1J685212838R6.15318&profile=ucpublic&uri=link=3100006~!678172~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab13&menu=search&ri=1&source=~!horizon&term=%C5%9Ay%C4%81malad%C4%81sa&index=AUTHORP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717112247/https://libcat.uchicago.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1J685212838R6.15318&profile=ucpublic&uri=link=3100006~!678172~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab13&menu=search&ri=1&source=~!horizon&term=%C5%9Ay%C4%81malad%C4%81sa&index=AUTHORP |date=17 July 2011 }}
*''Mewar ke gaurav-Kaviraj Shyamaldas'' in Hindi [http://pratahkal.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/मेवाड़-के-गौरव-234/ मेवाड़ के गौरव - कविराजा श्यामल दास]

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