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Acharya Kishori Das Vajpeyi:
'''Acharya Kishori Das Vajpeyi {Also spelt as Vajpayee, Bajpai or Bajpayee}(15 Dec 1895 - 11 Aug 1981) is best known and remembered for providing "Hindi" its first comprehensive grammar. Working under a project of Nagari Pracharani Sabha, Varanasi along with Ambika Prasad Bajpai and [|Kamta Prasad Guru]he codified the rules followed in speech and earlier writings until then sifting through the lot and choosing practices that needed to be retained in the formal grammar.'''

Life:
Born in the village "Bangar Bagdoudi" (known as "Ram Nagar") in Kanpur (now Kanpur Dehat) district he was grand son of late Kanhaiya Lal Vajpeyi, a great freedom fighter who had fought by the side of [|Jhansi Ki Rani]. Kanhaiya Lal Vajpeyi had taken his family from Bangar Bagdoudi (Ram Nagar) and moved to Reeva in Madhya Pradesh when fighters for independence of India lost the war in 1857 and British began hunting for them. Kanhaiya's great grandfather was Raj Guru (King's religious guide/teacher) for Reeva Naresh (the king of Reeva) and he too had ownership of sizeable tracts of land in the ancestral estate given by Reeva Naresh to his Raj Guru.

Kanhaiya had later moved back to Bangar Bagdoudi when British hunt for freedom fighters had cooled down. He had remained active till the very end and never returned from one of his forays with freedom fighters in 1870s. Kishori Das was second son of Satideen Vajpeyi from his third wife. Satidin was younger of the two sons of Kanhaiya. Nothing much is known about elder son who never married.

Kishori Das had an elder step brother too. This elder brother was given a huge tract of land by Satidin to settle in Gau Pur Village nearby while the tract of land owned in Bangar Bagdoudi was presumed to suffice for the sons of his third wife. Satideen and his third wife died in plague in early 20th century leaving Kishori Das and his younger brother orphaned while barely in their teens.

Satideen was a lond owner and had been a money lender with entire village and many land owners of neighboring villages in his debt. They pounced on this opportunity and chased away the young Kishori Das and his brother.