11 Facts About Ramchandra Shukla

Ramchandra Shukla is regarded as the first codifier of the history of Hindi literature in a scientific system by using wide, empirical research with scant resources.

Acharya Ramchandra Shukla was born on 4 October 1884, Basti district in a wealthy Saryuparin Brahmin family.

Ramchandra Shukla's father Chandrabali Shukla was a Revenue Inspector at that time.

Ramchandra Shukla was involved with scientific temper-building by translating and updating works of science and history.

In developing a scientific methodology to investigate the literary works of several centuries as creations of socio-economic and political conditions of the respective era, Acharya Ramchandra Shukla became a pathbreaker.

Acharya Ramchandra Shukla taught at Banaras Hindu University Varanasi and chaired its department of Hindi during Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya's period from 1937 until he died.

Ram Chandra Ramchandra Shukla was married to Savitri Devi and had two sons, Keshav Chandra and Gokul Chandra, and three daughters, Durgavati, Vidhya and Kamla.

Ramchandra Shukla was a painter and designed his own house, which was incomplete when he died in 1941.

Acharya Ram Chandra Ramchandra Shukla Sahitya Shodh Sansthan, a research institute established in 1972 in his name, is a center of literary activities.

Kusum Chaturvedi and Mukta have produced a documentary for Doordarshan on Acharya Ramchandra Shukla and published his authentic biography.

Acharya Ramchandra Shukla Sansthan has published following under the editorship of Kusum Chaturvedi.