Born at Chhachhrauli in District Yamuna Nagar on 30th September 1931, he did his M.A. in Hindi from Punjab University in 1955 in First Division and got his doctoral degree from the same University in 1964. With experience of teaching and guiding research of more than of Hindi at Kurukshetra Universities, Professor and Chairman of…
As founder President of ‘Haryana Hindi Sahitya Parishad’ in 1966 he had boosted literary activities in the State of Haryana in the early years of its establishment as a separate state. After the creation of Haryana in 1966, it was with the strenuous efforts of Dr. Goyal that Hindi was given the status of official…
Dr. Goyal, for the first time rediscovered for the Hindi and Punjabi literary world a 19th century distinguished and celebrated poet, Bhai Santokh Singh. He was a Scholar poet who composed two monumental epics namely ‘Guru Nanak Prakash’ and ‘Guru Pratap Suraj’; wrote a commentary on ‘Japu Ji’ and translated ‘Valmiki Ramayana’ in Braj Bhasha…
Besides the compositions of Guru Nanak Dev, Guru Arjun Dev, Guru Teg Bahadur, Dr. Goyal has done extensive work on the writings of Guru Gobind Singh and the literature produced under his patronage at Anandpur Sahib. While dealing with the contributions of Anandpur to literature by court poets of Guru Gobind Singh, Dr. Goyal has…
In the past five decades Dr. Goyal has published 30 books and about 200 hundred research papers covering a vast range of manuscripts and old publications. Dr. Goyal has explored and studied a large number of manuscripts on various subjects available in Sikh Reference library, ‘Guru Ramdas Library’, ‘Khalsa College Library’, Amritsar, ‘Public library’, ‘Motibagh…
A rich treasure of Hindi literary works in Gurmukhi script- manuscripts on various subjects- languished in dark and dusty corners of some libraries, forgotten and unsung. No scholars worked to discover the literary genius of these works. Till Dr. J.B. Goyal discovered them that is. He uncovered this literary wealth and cultural heritage of the…