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WRITER

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 577,923 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Maithili Sharan Gupt is the 2,508th most popular writer (up from 9,999th in 2019), the 307th most popular biography from India (up from 329th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maithili Sharan Gupt ranks 2,508 out of 5,755Before him are Alessandro Baricco, Juan Ruiz, James Aldridge, Jack Williamson, Edgar Lee Masters, and Heinrich Hoffmann. After him are Félix Fénéon, Vilhelm Moberg, Sergey Aksakov, Predrag Matvejević, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, and Edith Pargeter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Maithili Sharan Gupt ranks 118Before him are Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, Georgios Tsolakoglou, Leo G. Carroll, Gheorghe Tătărescu, Wilhelm Marschall, and Bertha Krupp. After him are Firmin Lambot, Rash Behari Bose, Fred Quimby, Armin T. Wegner, Takuboku Ishikawa, and May Ziade. Among people deceased in 1964, Maithili Sharan Gupt ranks 76Before him are Rauf Orbay, Carl Van Vechten, T. H. White, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, Pierre Monteux, and Otto Ciliax. After him are Firmin Lambot, Otto Schniewind, Sofoklis Venizelos, Guillermo Subiabre, Joseph Marx, and Jean Ray.

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In India

Among people born in India, Maithili Sharan Gupt ranks 307 out of 1,493Before him are M. Karunanidhi (1924), Chittaranjan Das (1869), Baba Amte (1914), Guru Hargobind (1595), Zail Singh (1916), and Nargis (1929). After him are Abanindranath Tagore (1871), Govind Ballabh Pant (1887), Ram Prasad Bismil (1897), Sumitranandan Pant (1900), Harilal Gandhi (1888), and Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Maithili Sharan Gupt ranks 51Before him are Mir Taqi Mir (1723), Bhavabhuti (null), Jim Corbett (1875), T. H. White (1906), M. Karunanidhi (1924), and Chittaranjan Das (1869). After him are Ram Prasad Bismil (1897), Sumitranandan Pant (1900), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), K. Shivaram Karanth (1902), U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932), and Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908).