Bherumal Meharchand Advani

Bherumal Meharchand Advani (1875/76 – 7 July 1950) was an Indian poet and prose writer who wrote in Sindhi. He was also a scholar, educationist, novelist, linguist and historian who authored more than 40 books. He was born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan). The exact date of his birth and even year of birth is not known. It is either 1875 or 1876. His father's name was Meharchand Advani. He studied at Mission School and Union Academy Hyderabad. The Union Academy was founded by Sadhu Navalrai and Heeranand Shaukiram on 28 October 1888. The aim of this school was to impart religious instruction, to spread the knowledge of Sanskrit, and to build up on a sound footing the character of the young generation. At Union Academy he learnt poetry of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai from the renowned scholars Heeranand and Tarachand Shaukiram. He married three times. From first wife, he did not have any child. From his second marriage, he had one son and one daughter. From his third marriage, he had two daughters. He started his career as a Distillery Inspector in the Salt Department at Kotri, Sindh. He served in this department for 28 years. In 1925 he was appointed as a lecturer of Sindhi in D.J. Sindh College, Karachi. Later on, he served as Chairman of Sindhi Department in the same college. He moved to India in 1949 and lived in Pune where he died on 7 July 1950.