Koduram Dalit

Koduram Dalit (5 March 1910 - 28 September 1967) was an Indian poet in Hindi and Chhattisgarhi languages.

He was born in Tikri village, district Durg (then Madhya Pradesh, now part of Chhattisgarh state), in a poor family. After completing his studies from Bilaspur and Durg, he worked as a teacher and principal in the education department of Madhya Pradesh.

Dalit believed in Gandhian principles and wrote poetry, stories, children's stories and folk songs in Hindi and Chhattisgarhi languages. Siyani Goth and Bahujan Hitaay Bahujan Sukhaay are two of his popular poem collections.

A high school in Nawagarh (Bemetara, Chhattisgarh) is named after him - Koduram Dalit Mahavidyala.

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Category:20th-century Indian poets
Category:Poets from Chhattisgarh
Category:1967 deaths
Category:Indian male poets
Category:Hindi poets
Category:Poets from Madhya Pradesh
Category:1910 births
Category:20th-century Indian male writers