List of Indian poets
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Below is the list of:
- poets of Indian Origin
- poets born in India
- poets from other regions of the world who are masters of poetry in Indian languages.
They should have published poetry books either in any Indian language or in English and have articles written about them on Wikipedia, thus demonstrating their notability.
Poets categorized under "Post-modern", "Contemporary", "Current", etc., should not have red links. Else, the names will be removed.
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[edit] Assamese
[edit] Bengali
- Buddhadeb Basu
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Jibananda Das
- Iswarchandra Gupta
- Humayun Kabir
- Anjali Das
- Annadashankar Roy
- Abul Bashar
- Bishnu Dey
- Chandidas
- Dwijendralal Ray
- Jatindramohan Bagchi
- Jatindranath Sengupta
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Krittibas Ojha
- Michael Madhusudan Dutta
- Birendra Dutta
- Parthaprathim Majumdar
- Nabinchandra Sen
- Nabaneeta Dev Sen
- Dilip Bandopadhyaya
- Premendra Mitra
- Jasimuddin
- Ashit Singha
- Manzoor ul Islam
- Samar Sen
- Salim Mallik
- Shakti Chattopadhyay
- Shankha Ghosh
- Srijato
- Sayed Hasmat Jalal
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay
- Subodh Sarkar
- Sukanta Bhattacharya
- Sukumar Ray
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Kaikobad
- Binoy Majumdar
- Joy Goswami
- Sayed Hasmat Jalal
- Mallika Sengupta
- Ishita Bhaduri
- Taimur Khan
- Subhro Bandyopadhyay
[edit] Indian English Poets
- A K Ramanujan
- Agha Shahid Ali
- Amit Chaudhuri
- Arun Kolatkar
- C P Surendran
- Dilip Chitre
- Dom Moraes
- Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan
- Eunice De Souza
- Gieve Patel
- Gopi Kottoor
- Indira Goswami
- Jayanta Mahapatra
- Kamala Das
- Nissim Ezekiel
- Prithwindra Mukherjee
- P. Lal
- Ranjit Hoskote
- Raman Mundair
- Rukmini Bhaya Nair
- Sarojini Naidu
- Sharanya Manivannan
- Shreekumar Varma
- Subhash Misra
- Sudeep Sen
- Tabish Khair
- Tapan Kumar Pradhan
- Tishani Doshi
- Toru Dutt
[edit] Gujarati
[edit] Hindi
- Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
- Gopal Singh 'Nepali'
- Kabir
- Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan
- Sumitranandan Pant
- Mahadevi Verma
[edit] Kannada
- U. R. Ananthamurthy
- A. N. Murthy Rao
- Adikavi Pampa
- Akka Mahadevi
- Allama Prabhu
- Amoghavarsha
- Ankur Betageri
- Basava
- Bhavageete
- Bharathi Devi P.
- D. R. Bendre
- Chamarasa
- Chandrashekhara Kambara
- Chikkupadhyaya
- Gangadhar V. Chittal
- Dinakara Desai
- Gangadevi
- Gourish Kaikini
- Gopalakrishna Adiga
- H. S. Shivaprakash
- Janna
- K. S. Nissar Ahmed
- Kanaka Dasa
- Kappe Arabhatta
- Kayyara Kinyanna Rai
- Kumara Vyasa
- Kuvempu
- Lakshmapathi Kolar
- M. Govinda Pai
- Mamta Sagar
- Manu V. Devadevan
- Nagavarma I
- Nagavarma II
- K. S. Narasimhaswamy
- Purandara Dasa
- Rajasekhara
- Ranna
- Rudrabhatta
- S. Manjunath
- Samethanahalli Rama Rao
- Sarvajna
- Shishunala Sharif
- Shivakotiacharya
- Shivarama Karanth
- Subbanna Ekkundi
- G. S. Shivarudrappa
- Sri Ponna
- B. M. Srikantaiah
- T. N. Srikantaiah
- Tirumalamba
- V. M. Manjunath
- Vyasatirtha
[edit] Kashmiri
- Abdul Ahad Azad (1903-1948)
- Amin Kamil (b. 1924)
- Arnimal - (d. 1800)
- Ghulam Ahmad Mahjur - (1885-1952)
- Habba Khatun - (16th century)
- Lalleshwari - (14th century)
- Mahmud Gami - (1765-1855)
- Maqbool Shah Kralawari - (1820-1976)
- Nund Reshi
- Paramananda - (1791-1864)
- Prakash Ram Kurigami
- Prem Nath Koul Arpan (1918-1997)
- Rasa Javedani (d.1978)
- Rasul Mir - (d. 1870)
- Rehman Rahi
- Rupa Bhavani
- Zinda Kaul 'Masterji' - (1884-1965)
- Mir Haseen Subla
- Mirza Arif Beigh
- Moti Lal Saqi
[edit] Konkani
[edit] Maithili
[edit] Malayalam
Medieval Poets
- Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan
- Cherussery
- Arnos Paathiri
- Poonthanam Namboothiri
- Kunchan Nambiar
- Unnayi Warrier
- Irayimman Thampi
- Kottayathu Thamburan
- Kunjikkuttan Thamburan
- Moyinkutty Vaidyar
- Pulikkotil Hyder
Renaissance Poets
- Kumaran Asan (1873-1924)
- V.C. Balakrishna Paniker
- Vallathol Narayana Menon (1878-1958)
- Ulloor S Parameswara Iyer (1877-1949)
- Kerala Varma Valiya Koyithampuran
- A.R. Rajaraja Varma
- K.C. Kesava Pillai
- Kuttippurathu Kesavan Nair
- Nalappatu Narayana Menon
- Vennikkulam
Romantic Poets
- Changampuzha Krishna Pillai
- Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon
- Edappally Raghavan Pillai
- Edasseri Govindan Nair
- P. Kunhiraman Nair
- G. Sankara Kurup
- Balamaniyamma
- Pala Narayanan Nair
Neo-Romantic Poets
- N.V. Krishna Warrier
- Olappamanna
- P. Bhaskaran
- Vayalar Ramavarma
- O.N.V. Kurup
- Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri
- Sugathakumari
- R. Ramachandran
- G. Kumara Pillai
- Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri
- Kunjunni
Modernist Poets
- K. Ayyappa Panicker
- Attoor Ravi Varma
- Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan
- Satchidanandan
- D. Vinayachandran
- A. Ayyappan
- Balachandran Chullikkad
Postmodern Poets
[edit] Marathi
- Sant Dnyaneshwar
- Sant Eknath
- Sant Namdev
- Namdeo Dhasal
- Arun Kolatkar
- Sant Tukaram
- B.S.Mardhekar
- Bahinabai Chaudhari
- Madhav Julian
- Geetkar Indira Sant
- N. D. Mahanor
- Laximan Mane
- Hemant Divate
- Vilas Sarang
- Vasant Dattatrey Gurjar
- Sachin Ketkar
- Gazalkar Suresh Bhat
- Kusumagraj
- P. S. Rege
- Shanta Shelke
- B. B. Borkar
- Sadanand Rege
- Manya Oak
- Baala Kavi - Trimbak Bapuji Thombare
- Shankar Vaidya
- Shridhar Tilve
[edit] Manipuri (Bishnupriya)
[edit] Manipuri (Meitei-lon)
- Thangjam Ibopishak
- Nongthombam Biren Singh
- Abdul Hamid
[edit] Oriya
- Gangadhar Meher
- Kabibar Radhanath Ray
- Kuntala Kumari Sabat
- Radhamaohan Gadnaik
- Nanda Kishore Bala
- Gopabandhu Das
- Madhusudan Das
- Madhusudan Rao
Contemporary poets
[edit] Punjabi
[edit] Rajasthani
[edit] Sanskrit
- Kālidāsa
- Pundrik Goswami
- Jayadev
- Vedavyasa
- Valmiki
- Krishnadevaraya
[edit] Sindhi
Pre-partition era
- Narayan Shyam
- Arjan Mirchandani 'Shad'
- Krishin Rahi
Post-partition era
- Laxman Bhatia 'Komal'
Contemporary poets
- Geeta Narayan Bablani
[edit] Tamil
- Subramanya Bharathi
- Bharathidasan
- Kannadasan
- Vairamuthu
- Kamban
- Thiruvalluvar
- Ilango Adigal
- Avvaiyar
- Vaali (poet)
- Pa. Vijay
- Mu Metha
[edit] Telugu
- Annamacharya
- Aarudhra - Bhagavatula Siva Sankara Sastry (1925-1998)
- Chaganti Somayajulu (1915-1993)
- Gurajada Apparao
- Molla
- Potana
- Tikkana
- Timmakka (Tallapaka Tirumalamma)
- Vemana
