Dattatraya Ganesh Godse

Dattatraya Ganesh Godse, an Indian historian, writer, critic, art director, theatre and costume designer, and illustrator, was born on July 3, 1914. In 1988, he was honoured with a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. He mostly only wrote in Marathi. He was born in the British Indian territory of Bombay Presidency's Vadhode hamlet in the Jalgaon district. His education was completed at Saoner Nagpur. He studied at Wilson College in Mumbai and Morris College in Nagpur. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in both English and Marathi. At the Slade School of Fine Art, he received more training in the arts. In his writing, Godse covered a broad range of topics, including historical personalities like Shivaji, Mastani, and Ramdas; literature; drama; architecture; sculpture; and art, especially Buddhist art.

He composed a piece of writing on Thomas Daniell's 1790 depiction of the Peshwa court at Pune.Godse wrote nearly entirely in Marathi, much like the historians and critics Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade and Madhukar Vasudev Dhond.Godse's work is "a corpus of important, though contentious, works in art history from the vitalist point of view," according to Ashok R. Kelkar, a historian of languages, literature, and semiotics.He continued by stating that it was "good in so much as it was essential in bringing art history home to the Marathi reader" because Godse chose to write in Marathi. Many books and publications have Godse's illustrations. He worked as a stage designer on more than 107 plays. He has served as the art director for two Hindi and three Marathi movies.