Dhirendra Verma

|birth_place =Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh |occupation =poet, writer |death_date= }} Dhirendra Verma (17 May 1897 – 23 April 1973) was an Indian poet and writer. He used to write in Hindi and Brij Bhasha. Verma holds the same prominence for introducing scientific methods to research in Hindi language and literature as does Ramchandra Shukla. On the basis of his research in Indian languages, he published the first scientific history of Indian languages in 1933. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Brij Bhasha in French which was later translated into Hindi. Provided by Wikipedia