Namvar Singh

Namvar Singh (28 July 1926 – 19 February 2019) was an Indian literary critic, linguist, academician and theoretician. He was a professor of Hindi literature in several other universities. He was the founder and first chairman of Jawaharlal Nehru University's Centre of Indian Languages. He retired in 1992.
Singh died on 19 February 2019 in Delhi from pneumonia at the age of 92.