Jagdish Gupt (1924–2001) was an Indian poet of the Nayi kavita generation, a period of

modernism Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

in modern Indian

Hindi poetry Hindi literature () includes literature in the various Central Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Hindi, some of which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa such as Awad ...

. He was Chairman of the Department of Hindi at

Allahabad University The University of Allahabad is a Central University located in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. It was established on 23 September 1887 by an act of Parliament and is recognised as an Institute of National Importance (INI). It is the 4th oldest mode ...

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1924 births 2001 deaths Hindi-language poets People from Hardoi Academic staff of the University of Allahabad 20th-century Indian poets Indian male poets 20th-century Indian male writers {{India-poet-stub