Anant Priolkar

Anant Kakba Priolkar (1895 – 1973) was an Indian polemicist, writer and political activist. He was elected as the President of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held in 1951 at Karwar, Karnataka, India. His book The Goa Inquisition remains his bestselling work. He died in Maharashtra in 1973.

Early life Anant Kakba Priolkar was born in 1895.

Literary career Priolkar was active in the field of Marathi literature and served as secretary of the Marathi Sahitya Parishad, a research organisation sponsored by the government of Bombay. He worked as a writer, editor, and translator, and played a role in building literary institutions in Maharashtra. He was also associated with the Bombay-based publishing house D B Taraporevala Sons and Co., where he helped produce works across multiple disciplines.

He strongly advocated for the merger of Goa into Maharashtra, even though the majority of Goans rejected the idea in the 1967 Goa status referendum. He also considered Konkani as a dialect of Marathi language.