Prajapati Sah retired as Professor of English and Linguistics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 2001. Earlier, he served as Lecturer of English Literature at the University of Allahabad. educated at the University of Allahabad and University College London, he did his Ph.D. at the University of York in Linguistic Theory. He has always been deeply interested in poetry and translation. In the '60. he contributed to Nayi Kavita and also published literary criticism. His English translations incluse two novels, Dhaii Ghar by Giriraj Kishore and Poorvapar by Ramsesh Chandra Shah, and several stories by other Hindi authors.
His Hindi rendering of Jayant Mahapatra's epic poem Relationship has been published by Sahitya Akademi.
