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Jaishankar Prasad

Died in 1937

Jaishankar Prasad was born in Benares on 30 January 1889, or 1890 according to other sources, into a wealthy family of tobacco merchants. Partly educated at home in Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu and Persian, he first wrote in Braj, then edited the journal Indu and moved to modern Hindi, which he made a language of poetry; he was one of the figures of the so-called Chhayavad movement. Also the author of historical dramas and novels, he died of tuberculosis in Benares on 15 November 1937.

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