About Maithilisharan Gupt
Dr Maithilisharan 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. For his book Bharat-Bharati (1912), widely quoted during India's freedom struggle, he was given the title of Rashtra Kavi by Mahatma Gandhi. In 1956, Rashtrakavi Maithili Sharan Gupt Abhinandan Samiti Calcutta published 'Abhinandan Granth', a comprehensive 1000-page document in honour of his life and work. His family now runs the RMSG Group of Institutions in Chirgaon, promoting his ideals of empowering education, especially among girls. == Early life == He was born in Chirgaon, Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh in the Kankane clan of the Gahoi Bania community in a family that was once a wealthy zamindar family, but the wealth was lost by the time he was born. His father's name was Seth Ramcharan Gupta and his mother's name was Kashibai. Both his father and his brother Shearamsharan Gupta were prominent poets. He disliked school as a child, so his father arranged for his education at their home.
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