Maithili sharan gupta biography samples

Indian Poet (1886-1964)

Maithili Sharan Gupt^[1] (3 August 1886 – 12 December 1964^[2]) was one of the most important modern Hindi poets.^[3] He is considered one among the pioneers of Khari Boli (plain dialect) poetry and wrote in Khari Boli dialect,^[2] at a time when most Hindi poets favoured the use of Braj Bhasha dialect.

He was a recipient of the third highest (then second highest) Indian civilian honour of Padma Bhushan.^[5] For his book Bharat-Bharati (1912),^[6] widely quoted during India's freedom struggle, he was given the title of Rashtra Kavi^[2] by Mahatma Gandhi.

Early life

He was born in Chirgaon, Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh^[2] in the Kankane clan of the GahoiBaniya community in a family that was once a wealthy zamindar family, but the wealth was lost by the time he was born.^[7] His father was Seth Ramcharan Gupta^[2] and mother's name was Kashiba