Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi

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Born	(1864-05-15)15 May 1864 Daulatapur, North-Western Provinces, British India
Died	21 December 1938(1938-12-21) (aged 74)
Occupation	Writer, translator
Nationality	Indian
Period	Dwivedi Yug (1893–1922)

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 the second phase, known as the Dwivedi Yug (1893–1918) after him, which was preceded by the Bharatendu Yug (1868–1893), followed by the Chhayavad Yug (1918–1937) and the Contemporary Period (1937–present).^[1]

Biography

He was born into Kanyakubja Brahmin family on 5 May 1864 in Daulatpur village, now in Raebareli District of Uttar Pradesh. His father Ram Sahay Dwivedi was a soldier in the East India Company's army and later worked in Bombay as temple priest for the leaders of the Vallabha sampradaya.^[2]

Dwivedi received his early education in Sanskrit at his home, and in Hindi and Urdu at the Daulatpur village school. At the age of thirteen, he was sent to the district school in Raibareli, where he studied English and Persian for one year, and then attended schools in Purva, Fatehpur, and Unao for four years.^[2]

Career

During his Indian Railways service in Jhansi in the 1880s, Dwivedi earned wide fame as a writer and litterateur. He published his translations and the critical works including Sahitya Sandarbh and Vichar Vimarsh.

In 1903, Dwivedi joined the Hindi monthly journal, Saraswati and was able to edit the journal with a knowledge of both classical and contemporary literature gained from his writing experiences. During his tenure as the editor (1903–20), Saraswati became the most popular Hindi magazine.

He was considered as the mentor of Maithili Sharan Gupt, another noted Hindi poet and writer.

Works

Kavya manjusha
Kavitakalap
Sugandh
Mere Jeevan ki Yatra
Sahitya Sandarbh
Hindi Bhasha ki Utpatti^[3]

References

^ Hindi Language iloveindia.com, Retrieved 2 July 2011.
^ ^a ^b Mody, Sujata S. "Dwivedi, Mahavir Prasad". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/97284. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Dwivedi, Mahavir Prasad. Hindī bhāshā kī utpatti (in Hindi). ISBN 9788186747049.

External links

Works by or about Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi at the Internet Archive
Works by Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi at Google Books
Brief profile at indiavisitinformation.com, Retrieved 2011-07-02.

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