Acharya Shivpujan Sahay - Education & Career

Education & Career

After his early education and a short stint as a Hindi language Teacher at Ara (1903–1921) he went to Kolkata and joined Matwala as an Editor in 1923. He went to Lucknow in 1924 to join the editorial department of Madhuri where he worked with Hindi author Premchand and edited his Rangbhumi and some of his other stories. After a year he returned to Calcutta and continued editing short-lived journals such as Samanway, Mauji, Golmal,Upanyas Tarang. Finally Sahay moved to Varanasi (Kāśi) to work as a freelance editor. For a short period in 1931, he went to Sultanganj near Bhagalpur to edit Ganga, but returned to Varanasi where he was commissioned to edit Jagaran, a literary fortnightly brought out by Jaishankar Prasad and his circle of friends in 1932. He once again found himself working beside Premchand. He also went on to become a prominent member of the Nagari Pracharini Sabha and similar literary circles in Varanasi.

In 1935, he moved to Laheria Sarai (Darbhanga) to work as editor of Balak and other publications of Pustak Bhandar owned by Acharya Ramlochan Saran. In 1939, he joined Rajendra College, Chhapra as Professor of Hindi Language. In 1946, on a year's leave, he moved to Patna to edit Himalaya, a literary monthly again a publication of Pustak Bhandar owned by Acharya Ramlochan Saran.

In 1949, Sahay finally came to Patna to work as Secretary of Bihar Rashtra Bhasha Parished, a government academy where he edited and published more than 50 volumes of Hindi reference works. Later he became Director of the Parishad and compiled and edited Hindi Sahitya Aur Bihar a literary history.

His own works were compiled and published in 4 volumes of Shipujan Rachanavali (1956–59). Shivpujan Sahay is also remembered for his editing of several literary commemoration volumes, chiefly Dwivedi Abhinandan Granth (1933),Anugrah Abhinandan Granth (1946), Rajendra Abhinandan Granth (1950) and Jayanti Smarak Granth (1942). He also edited Dr. Rajendra Prasad's Atmakatha. He was awarded Padma Bhushan Award in 1960.