Baldev Upadhyaya was a Hindi and Sanskrit scholar, literary historian, essayist and critic.
10 Facts About Baldev Upadhyaya
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Baldev Upadhyaya wrote numerous books, collections of essays and a historical outline of Sanskrit literature.
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Baldev Upadhyaya is noted for discussing Sanskrit literature in the Hindi language.
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Baldev Upadhyaya was born on 10 October 1899 in the village Sonbarsa in the Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh, British India.
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Baldev Upadhyaya died on 10 August in his centenary year 1999 at Varanasi.
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Baldev Upadhyaya is retired from IIT Kanpur, where he was a professor in the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering.
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The grandson of Baldev Upadhyaya named Dr Anish Upadhyaya is currently a professor in the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at IIT Kanpur.
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Baldev Upadhyaya served as the president, Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Academy, Lucknow.
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Baldev Upadhyaya wrote many books which are the outcome of original studies and are authoritative in their respective fields.
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Baldev Upadhyaya had chosen Hindi as his medium for writing books.