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Mahadevi Varma (Hindi: महादेवी वर्मा) best known as an outstanding Hindi poet, and was a freedom fighter, woman's activist and educationist from India. She is widely regarded as the "modern Meera".〔(Mahadevi Verma: Modern Meera )〕 She was a major poet of the Chhayavaad generation, a period of romanticism in Modern Hindi poetry ranging from 1914–1938. With passage of time, her limited but outstanding prose has been recognised as unique in Hindi Literature. She was a prominent poet in Hindi Kavi sammelans (Gatherings of poets). She was the Principal, and then the Vice-Chancellor of Prayag Mahila Vidyapeeth, a woman's residential college in Allahabad. She was awarded India's highest literary award, for lifetime achievement, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1979, followed by the Jnanpith Award in 1982.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jnanpith Laureates Official listings )〕 She was the recipient of the Padma Bhushan in 1956 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1988, India's third and second highest civilian awards respectively.〔(Padma Vibhshan )〕 == Life == Mahadevi was born in Farukhabad in a family of lawyers. She was educated at Jabalpur- Madhya Pradesh. She was the eldest child of Govinda Prasad Varma and Hemaa rani and had two brothers, Jagmohan and Manmohan, and a sister, Shyaama. She got married to Dr Swarup Narain Varma in Indore when she was in her childhood. She stayed with her parents while her husband studied in Lucknow to complete his education, during which time, she received her higher education at the Allahabad University and passed her B.A.examination in 1929 and completed her master's degree-M.A. in Sanskrit in 1933. After the death of her husband in 1966, she moved permanently to Allahabad and lived there until her death. Mahadevi was appointed as the first headmistress of ''Allahabad (Prayag) Mahila Vidyapeeth'', which was started with a view to imparting cultural and literary education to girls through Hindi medium. Later, she became the chancellor of the institute. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mahadevi Varma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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