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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Poet from Odisha, India}}<br />
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|name = Madhusudan Rao<br />
|image = BhaktaKabiMadhusudanRao.jpg<br />
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1853|01|29|df=y}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Puri]], [[Odisha]], India<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1912|12|28|1853|01|29|df=y}}<br />
|occupation = Poet, essayist<br />
|nationality = Indian<br />
|genre = Poetry<br />
|notableworks = ''Prabandhamala''<br />
| children = [[Abanti Rao]]<br />
| relatives = [[Reba Ray]] (niece) <br />
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'''Madhusudan Rao''' (29 January 1853 – 28 December 1912) was an [[Odia language|Odia]] poet and writer from India. He was known as ''Bhaktakabi''.<br />
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==Life==<br />
Madhusudan Rao was born on 29 January 1853 in [[Puri]], Odisha. His father was an employee of the police department of the state of Orissa and was transferred to different places during his career. As a result, Madhusudan had his schooling in different parts of Odisha - [[Gop, Odisha|Gop]], [[Cuttack]], [[Bhubaneswar]] and Puri. After passing his F. A. from [[Ravenshaw College]] in 1871, he stopped studying, as, at the time, there were no colleges or other facilities offering a B. A. in the whole of Odisha. He started a career as a teacher in 1871. He taught at various places. In 1890, he became Deputy Inspector of Education.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}<br />
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He died on 28 December 1912.<ref name="Das1986">{{cite book|author=Binod Sankar Das|title=Glimpses of Orissa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ex8OAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=5 March 2018|year=1986|publisher=Punthi Pustak|page=138}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
He is known as ''Bhaktakavi'' of Odia and is considered the father of modern (using western lyrical forms) Odia poetry.<br />
* In collaboration with [[Radhanath Ray]], he published two volumes, one each in 1873 and 1874, of collections of poems entitled ''Kavitabali''. They heralded a new era in Odia poetry. In this collection, Rao replaced the old lyrical forms like chautisa, koili, boli, padia, etc., with western lyrical forms like the [[ode]], the [[elegy]], the [[sonnet]], etc.<br />
* His other poetry collections, which also consist of compositions used as lyrics for songs, comprise:<br />
** ''Chhandamala'' (Vol. 1, 188; Vol. 2, 1895),<br />
** ''Sangitamala'' (1894),<br />
** ''Basanta Gatha'' (1910),<br />
** ''Kusumanjali'' (1903) and<br />
** ''Utkalgatha'' (1908).<br />
* ''Prabandhamala'', published in 1880, is a collection of essays in Odia.<ref name="Lal2007">{{cite book|author=Mohan Lal|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Navaratri-Sarvasena|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sOsbAAAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=((81-260-1003-1))|pages=3585–3586}}</ref><ref name="Gupta2017">{{cite book|author=Swarupa Gupta|title=Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India, c. 1850-1927|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jjE9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA80|accessdate=5 March 2018|date=30 October 2017|publisher=BRILL|location=Boston|isbn=978-90-04-34976-6|page=80}}</ref><br />
* Apart from writing essays, he translated a few works from [[Sanskrit]] and English into Odia. They were published in ''Utkal Darpan'', a literary journal.<br />
* He wrote two short stories.<br />
* He translated the [[Uttararamacarita]] of [[Bhavabhuti]] into Odia.<br />
* He also contributed to children's literature.<ref name="Lal2007"/><br />
* {{cite book | last=Rao | first=Madhusudan | title=Chandamala | publisher=The Arunodya Press | year=1898 | oclc=499869715 | language=or}}<br />
* {{cite book | last=Rao | first=Madhusudan | title=Mahadebi Bhiktoria | publisher=The Utkal Sahitya Press | year=1901 | oclc=499865497 | language=or}}<br />
* {{cite book | last=Rao | first=Madhusudan | title=Madhusudana granthabali | publisher=Grantha Mandira | year=1983 | oclc=499128674 | language=or}}<br />
* {{cite book | last=Rao | first=Madhusudan | title=Ucca siksaka suhrda | year=1912 | oclc=1046989696 | language=or}}<br />
* {{cite book | last=Rao | first=Madhusudan | title=Karnna badha | publisher=The Brajendra Press | year=1922 | oclc=499865888 | language=or}}<br />
* {{cite book | last=Rao | first=Madhusudan | title=Basanta Gatha | publisher=Phrends Pablisars | year=1983 | oclc=499610376 | language=or}}<br />
* {{cite book | last=Rao | first=Madhusudan | title=Barnabodha | publisher=The I.S.S.D. Press | year=1944 | oclc=499519106 | language=or}}<br />
* {{cite book | last=Rao | first=Madhusudan | last2=Kabi | first2=Asita | title=Kusumañjali : alocana saha | publisher=Niushtudentas Shtora | year=1972 | oclc=6304045 | language=or}}<br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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{{Commons|File:Barnabodha (1901).pdf|Barnabodha}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Internet Archive author|sname=Madhusudan Rao}}<br />
{{Odia literature}}<br />
{{Authority control}}<br />
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[[Category:19th-century Indian poets]]<br />
[[Category:Poets from Odisha]]<br />
[[Category:People from Puri district]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]<br />
[[Category:Indian male poets]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian male writers]]<br />
[[Category:19th-century Indian translators]]</div>->Lancepark