Thakur Gadadhar Singh

Thakur Gadadhar Singh (1869 - 1920) was an Indian soldier and author. He wrote several travelogues and commentaries. Singh is considered to be the founder of the Hindi travel literature genre alongside Bharatendu Harishchandra,[1] and his travelogue Chin Me Terah Mas (Thirteen Months in China) is often considered one of the first book-length overseas travel narratives written in Hindi.[2]

  1. ^ Encyclopaedia of Indian literature, vol. 5, Sasay to Zorgot. Indranātha Caudhurī, Amaresh Datta, Mōhanlāl, Param Anand Abichandani, K. C. Dutt, Sahitya Akademi (Revised ed.). New Delhi. 2009–2016. p. 4371. ISBN 978-81-260-2384-4. OCLC 430192715.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ Yang, Anand A. (2017). Thirteen Months in China: A Subaltern Indian and The Colonial World: An Annotated Translation of Thakur Gadadhar Singh's Chīn Me Terah Mās. Oxford series on China-India studies. Translated by Sheel, Kamal; Sheel, Ranjana (1st ed.). New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-19-947646-6.