cardiac arrest and died. Posthumous recognitions On 30 September 1987, to mark his 79th birth anniversary, tributes were paid to him by the then President of India, Shankar Dayal Sharma. In 1999, Dinkar was one of the Hindi writers featured on a set of commemorative postal stamps released by Government of India to celebrate the linguistic harmony of India, marking the 50th anniversary since India adopted Hindi as its official language. The government released a book on Dinkar's birth centenary authored by Khagendra Thakur. At the same time a statue of him was unveiled in Patna at the Dinkar Chowk, and a two-day national seminar was organised in Calicut University. The Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, inaugurated an engineering college Rastrakavi Ramdhari Singh Dinkar College of Engineering in the district of Begusarai named after the legendary Hindi poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar. On 22 May 2015 Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated golden jubilee celebrations of Dinkar's notable works and at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. Major poetic works Dinkar's first published work of poetry was (1928). His other works are: (1929) (1935) Hunkar (epic poem) (1938) (1939) (1940) (1946) (1946) (1947) (1947) (1951) (1951) (1951) Rashmirathi (1952) (1954) (1954) (1955) (1954) (1954) (1956) (1957) (1957) (1957) (1961) (1963) (1964) (1964) (1964) (1970) (1970) Anthologies (1960) (1964) (1973) (1973) (1974) (1974) , Lokbharti Prakashan, New Delhi, 2008. , Lokbharti Prakashan, New Delhi, 2008. , Lokbharti Prakashan, New Delhi, 2008. , Lokbharti Prakashan, New Delhi, 2008. , Lokbharti Prakashan, New Delhi, 2008. Major prose works Dinkar's major analytical and other prose works are: (1946) (1948) (1952) (1954) (1954) (1955) (1955) (1956) (1956) (1958) (1958) (1958) (1959) (1961) (1965) (1966) (1968) (1968) (1970) (1971) (1971) (1973) (1973) (1973) (1973) Literary criticism , Lokbharti Prakashan, New Delhi, 2008. , Lokbharti Prakashan, New Delhi, 2008. , Lokbharti Prakashan, New Delhi, 2008. , Lokbharti Prakashan, New Delhi, 2008. , Lokbharti Prakashan, New Delhi, 2008. Biographies Sri Aurobindo: , Lokbharti Prakashan, New Delhi, 2008. , Lokbharti Prakashan, New Delhi, 2008. , Lokbharti Prakashan, New Delhi, 2008. , Dr Diwakar, 2008. Translations translated by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar. In , edited by Asit Kumar Bandopadhyaya, Sahitya Akademi, Delhi. (101 selected poems of Tagore) translated by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar along with Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Hans Kumar Tiwari, and Bhawani Prasad Mishra, Sahitya Akademi, , 2001 (reprint). Translations into Hindi and other languages Dinkar's Urvashi: a saga of human love and Vedanta.