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19th-century Indian poets
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The list 19th-century Indian poets includes
Kavimani Desigavinayagam Pillai, Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer, Vallathol Narayana Menon, Kumaran Asan and Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi.
The list consists of 182 members.
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Kavimani Desigavinayagam Pillai
Indian writer
Overview: Kavimani Desigavinayagam Pillai (Tamil: கவிமணி தேசிகவிநாயகம் பிள்ளை; 27 July 1876 – 26 September 1954) was an eminent Tamil poet. He was born in the southern district of Tamil Nadu in Kanniyakumari district ...Date of birth: 27 July 1876Date of death: 26 September 1954Age: 78 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: PoetGender: Male
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Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer
Indian poet
Overview: Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer (6 June 1877 – 15 June 1949), born Sambasivan but popularly known as Ulloor, was an Indian poet of Malayalam literature and a historian. He was one of the modern triumvirate ...Date of birth: 6 June 1877Date of death: 15 June 1949Age: 72 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Vallathol Narayana Menon
Indian poet (1878–1958)
Overview: Vallathol Narayana Menon (16 October 1878 – 13 March 1958) was a poet in the Malayalam language, which is spoken in the south Indian state of Kerala. He was one of the triumvirate poets of modern Malayalam ...Date of birth: 1878Date of death: 1 March 1958Age: 79 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: PoetGender: Male 0
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Kumaran Asan
Indian poet
Overview: N. Kumaran Asan (12 April 1873 – 16 January 1924) was an Indian social reformer, philosopher and poet of Malayalam literature. He is known to have initiated a revolution in Malayalam poetry in the first ...Date of birth: 12 April 1873Date of death: 16 January 1924Age: 50 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: PoetGender: Male 0
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Sarojini Naidu
Indian politician
Overview: Sarojini Chattopadhyay Naidu (née Chattopadhyay; 13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949) was an Indian political activist and poet. A proponent of civil rights, women's emancipation, and anti-imperialistic ideas ...Date of birth: 13 February 1879Date of death: 2 March 1949Age: 70 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: WriterGender: Female 0
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Rabindranath Tagore
Nobel laureate in literature
Overview: Rabindranath Tagore FRAS ( ; born Robindronath Thakur, 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941; sobriquet Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi) was an Indian polymath - poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social ...Date of birth: 6 May 1861Date of death: 7 August 1941Age: 80 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi
Hindi Writer and Editor
Overview: Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi (15 May 1864 – 21 December 1938) was an Indian Hindi writer and editor. Adhunikkaal, or the Modern period of the Hindi literature, is divided into four phases, and he represents ... 0
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Laxminath Bezbarua
Assamese writer
Overview: Lakshminath Bezbarua (14 October 1864 – 26 March 1938), was an Indian poet, novelist and playwright of modern Assamese literature. He was one of the literary stalwarts of the Jonaki Era, the age of ro ...Date of birth: 1 November 1868Date of death: 1938Age: 69 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: PlaywrightGender: Male 0
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Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Indian writer
Overview: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831), was an Indian poet of English and Portuguese origin and assistant headmaster of Hindu College, Kolkata. He was a radical thinker of his time ...Date of birth: 18 April 1809Date of death: 26 December 1831Age: 22 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: PoetGender: Male 0
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Bharatendu Harishchandra
Indian actor
Overview: Bharatendu Harishchandra (9 September 1850 – 6 January 1885) is known as the father of Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre. He is considered one of the greatest Hindi writers of modern India ...Date of birth: 9 September 1850Date of death: 6 January 1885Age: 34 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Hasrat Mohani
Indian freedom fighter and poet of the Urdu language
Overview: Syed Fazl-ul-Hasan (14 October 1875 – 13 May 1951), known by his pen-name Hasrat Mohani, was an Indian activist, freedom Fighter in the Indian independence movement and a noted poet of the Urdu language ...Date of birth: 1 January 1875Date of death: 13 May 1951Age: 76 (age at death)Nationality: PakistaniOccupation: Writer 0
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Hemchandra Goswami
Indian writer, poet, historian, teacher and linguist
Overview: Hemchandra Goswami (1872–1928) was an Indian writer, poet, historian, teacher and a linguist from Assam in the early part of modern Assamese literature. He was the fourth president of the Asom Sahitya ...Date of birth: 8 January 1872Date of death: 2 May 1928Age: 56 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: HistorianGender: Male 0
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Overview: Padmanath Gohain Baruah (Assamese: পদ্মনাথ গোহাঞি বৰুৱা; 1871–1946) was the first president of Asam Sahitya Sabha and a prominent name in the early part of modern Assamese literature. He was a novelist ...Date of birth: 24 October 1871Date of death: 7 April 1946Age: 74 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: PlaywrightGender: Male 0
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Sathavathani Sheikh Thambi Pavalar
Indian poet
Overview: Sheikh Thambi Pavalar (Tamil: செய்கு தம்பி பாவலர்; 1874–1950) was a Tamil poet, scholar and an Indian independence activist. He was born on 31 July 1874 as the third son of Pakeer Meeran sahib and Ameena ... 0
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Puroshottam Choudhary
Indian writerOverview: Puroshottam Choudhary (5 September 1803 – 24 August 1890) also spelled Purushottama Chaudhary or Purushothama Choudhari was a great 19th century Telugu Christian poet. He was a Christian preacher, eva ...Date of birth: 5 September 1803Date of death: 1880Age: 76 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: PoetGender: Male 0
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Ramanbhai Nilkanth
Indian writer
Overview: Ramanbhai Mahipatram Nilkanth (Gujarati: રમણભાઈ મહીપતરામ નીલકંઠ) (13 March 1868 – 6 March 1928) was a Gujarati novelist, essayist, literary critic and politician from India. The Ramanlal Nilkanth Hasya ...Date of birth: 13 March 1868Date of death: 1928Age: 59 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: Critic 0
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Narsinhrao Divetia
Gujarati-language writer
Overview: Narsinhrao Divetia (Gujarati: નરસિંહરાવ ભોળાનાથ દિવેટિયા) (1859–1937) was a poet, linguist and critic of Gujarati literature.Date of birth: 1859Date of death: 1937Age: 77 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: CriticGender: Male 0
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Govardhanram Tripathi
Indian politician
Overview: Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi ( 20 October 1855 – 4 January 1907) was an Indian Gujarati language novelist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known for his four volume novel, Saraswati ...Date of birth: 20 October 1855Date of death: 4 January 1907Age: 51 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: CriticGender: Male 0
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Overview: Manishankar Ratnji Bhatt (Gujarati: મણિશંકર રત્નજી ભટૃ), popularly known as Kavi Kant (Gujarati: કવિ કાન્ત) was a Gujarati poet, playwright and essayist. He is an innovator of Khandkavya, a typical Gujarati ...Date of birth: 20 November 1867Date of death: 16 June 1923Age: 55 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: PlaywrightGender: Male 0
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Rajanikanta Sen
Indian singer
Overview: Rajanikanta Sen (26 July 1865 – 13 September 1910) was a Bengali poet and composer, known for his devotional (bhakti) compositions, as well as his patriotic songs.Date of birth: 26 July 1865Date of death: 13 September 1910Age: 45 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: SingerGender: Male 0
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