Maithilisharan Gupt (3 August 1886 – 12 December 1964) was one of the most important modern Hindi

Hindi

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

 poets. He is considered among the pioneers of Khari Boli

Khariboli

Khariboli , also Khari Boli, Khadiboli, Khadi Boli or simply Khari, is a Western Hindi dialect spoken mainly in the rural surroundings of Delhi, the northern areas of Western Uttar Pradesh and the southern areas of Uttarakhand in India...

(plain dialect) poetry and wrote in Khari Boli at a time when most Hindi poets favoured the use of Brajbhasha.
Born Chirgaon

Chirgaon

Chirgaon is a city and a municipal board in Jhansi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India.Chirgaon is a small yet progressive town, 30 km away from Jhansi, on Jhansi-Kanpur National Highway 25. Chirgaon has one Krishi Utpadan Mandi. Chirgaon is an ancient town of UP. Close look...

, Jhansi

Jhansi

Jhansi Hindi:झाँसी, , Marathi: झाशी, is a historical city of India. Jhansi is the administrative headquarters of Jhansi District and Jhansi Division. The original walled city grew up around its stone fort, which crowns a neighboring rock. This district is on the bank of river Betwa.The National...

 in a Gahoi

Gahoi

Gahoi is a merchant community in central India. The traditional population centre has been the Bundelkhand region, with their origin claimed to be at Kharagpur....

 family. His father was Seth Ramcharan Gupta and mother's name was Smt. Kashibai. He disliked school as a child, so his father arranged for his education at their home.