Beniram

Beniram or Pandit Beniram was a Bhojpuri poet and a contemporary of Bharatendu Harishchandra. He used to compose Kajari and was a great composer of it.[1] His notable work is Kajari Bidesiya which he composed during 1860s.[2] He is credited to use to word Bidediya to address a person who has left the home and gone away for the first time in a folk song which he wrote in 1884.[3]

References
  1. Tiwari, Ajrun (2014). Bhojpuri Sahitya Ke Itihas. Vishwavidyalaya Prakashan. pp. 149–150.
  2. Kumar, Ashutosh (2017). Coolies of the Empire. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 1107147956.
  3. Narayan, Badri (2016). Culture and Emotional Economy of Migration. Routledge. ISBN 1315448025.


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