page_title: Kishore Jadav
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Kishore Jadav / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Gujarati writer Kishor Jadav with his family
context_page_description: Kishore Kalidas Jadav was a novelist, critic, and short story writer from India. He wrote in Gujarati and was primarily responsible for the development of surreal and experimental Gujarati fiction.
context_section_description: Kishore Jadav was born on 15 April 1938  in Ambaliala village of Dholka Taluka in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat, to Kalidas and Dahiben Jadav.
  He matriculated in 1955 from R.C. Commerce High School, Ahmedabad, and completed a Bachelor of Commerce from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1960. In 1963, he moved to Nagaland.
  In 1972, he completed a Masters of Commerce from Gauhati University and later received a Ph.D. from California International University for his research work American Black Writers.
  He was awarded a Doctor of Letters by Harmony College of Applied Science, California, US. From 1965 to 1982, he worked as a secretary with various departments of the Government of Nagaland. In 1967 he married Kumsangkola, a Naga tribal girl. They had two sons and three daughters.
  Jadav served as a secretary to the Chief Secretary of the Government of Nagaland in 1982 and retired in 1995. He also served as a Registrar of Nagaland University, and later retired as the Special Secretary.
  He served as a chairman of the Northeast Literary Academy from its foundation in 1976 until 1981 and later served as its vice president. He was a fellow and deputy governor of the American Biographical Institute. He lived in Kohima until his retirement in 1995, then moved to Dimapur, Nagaland.
  Kumsangkola died in 2011. Jadav died on 1 March 2018 in Dimapur following kidney failure and a stroke.
caption: Kishore Jadav with his wife and children
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