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Dharikshan Mishr (1901-1997) was a Bhojpuri poet and Writer. [1] He was honored with the Bhasa Samman Award in 1996 for his contribution to Bhojpuri literature. [2]
He was born in 1901 at Bariyarpur village in Kushinagar in the North-Western Provinces of British India.
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