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Literature
Harivansh Rai Bachchan
हरिवंश राय बच्चन
- Born as
- Harivansh Rai Srivastava
- Born
- 27 November 1907
- Birthplace
- Babupatti, Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh
- Died
- 18 January 2003
- Field
- Literature
Leading Hindi poet famous for Madhushala; also a Cambridge PhD on Yeats and a Rajya Sabha member. Padma Bhushan 1976.
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Source: Kayastha family background as recorded in the English Wikipedia article.
