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Maithili Sharan Gupt

1886 - 1964

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Maithili Sharan Gupt (3 August 1886 – 12 December 1964) was one of the most important modern Hindi poets. He is considered one among the pioneers of Khari Boli (plain dialect) poetry and wrote in Khari Boli dialect, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maithili Sharan Gupt has received more than 615,193 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Maithili Sharan Gupt is the 3,006th most popular writer (down from 2,500th in 2019), the 384th most popular biography from India (down from 304th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maithili Sharan Gupt ranks 3,006 out of 7,302. Before him are John Perkins, Richard Dehmel, Lytton Strachey, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Roy Medvedev, and Gasparo Contarini. After him are Vincent Voiture, Lars Norén, Nathan Alterman, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Caroline Graham, and Anšlavs Eglītis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Maithili Sharan Gupt ranks 142. Before him are Delmira Agustini, Robert Hennet, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Al Jolson, Edgar Rubin, and Ty Cobb. After him are Chester Barnard, Kurt Hahn, Saburō Kurusu, Hella Wuolijoki, Ernst May, and Radhabinod Pal. Among people deceased in 1964, Maithili Sharan Gupt ranks 89. Before him are Carel Godin de Beaufort, Ben Hecht, Aleksander Zawadzki, Heinrich von Brentano, Otto Ciliax, and Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg. After him are Francisco Canaro, Charilaos Vasilakos, Bodil Ipsen, Abbās al-Aqqād, Sofoklis Venizelos, and Bernhard Goetzke.

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In India

Among people born in India, Maithili Sharan Gupt ranks 384 out of 1,861. Before him are Bhikaiji Cama (1861), Orde Wingate (1903), Mad Mike Hoare (1919), Rani Padmini (null), The Great Khali (1972), and Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863). After him are Ramananda (1400), Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858), Nitish Kumar (1951), Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892), Sumitranandan Pant (1900), and Iskander Mirza (1899).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Maithili Sharan Gupt ranks 56. Before him are Bhavabhuti (null), Zeb-un-Nissa (1638), U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932), Ram Prasad Bismil (1897), Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (1911), and K. Shivaram Karanth (1902). After him are Sumitranandan Pant (1900), Shibli Nomani (1857), Suryakant Tripathi (1899), R. K. Narayan (1906), Idries Shah (1924), and Ashapurna Devi (1909).

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