List of Indian poets
Below is the list of:
- poets of Indian Origin
- poets born in India
- poets from other regions of the world who are masters of poetry in Indian languages.
They should have published poetry books either in any Indian language or in English.
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Assamese
- Ajit Barua
- Aparaj
- Atul Chandra Hazarika
- Bipul Jyoti Saikia
- Bireshwar Barua
- Bishnu Prasad Rabha
- Devakanta Barua
- Harekrishna Deka
- Hari Barkakoti
- Heeren Bhattacharya
- Hem Barua
- Hemanga Kumar Dutta
- Homen Borgohain
- Jyoti Prasad Agarwala
- Kaustavmoni Saikia
- Keshav Mahanta
- Navakanta Barua
- Nilim Kumar
- Nilima Thakuria Haque
- Nilmoni Phukan
- Rafiqul Husaain
- Sameer Tanti
- Sananta Tanti
Bengali
- Akkhoykumar Boral
- Alokranjan Dasgupta
- Ananya Roy
- Aniket Patra
- Annadashankar Roy
- Arun Mitra
- Arunesh Ghosh
- Atulprasad Sen
- Aveek Bandyopadhyay
- Bharat Chandra
- Bidyapati
- Bishnu Dey
- Brajendra Nath Seal
- Buddhadeva Bose
- Buddhadev Dasgupta
- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
- Chandidas
- Debarati Mitra
- Dilipkumar Roy
- Dwijendralal Ray
- Fikirchand
- Iswar Gupta
- Jatindramohan Bagchi
- Jatindranath Sengupta
- Jibananda Das
- Kamalakanta
- Kashiram Das
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Krittibas Ojha
- Kumud Ranjan Mullick
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt
- Nabinchandra Sen
- Premendra Mitra
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Ramprasad
- Rudrasankar
- Salil Choudhury
- Samar Sen
- Shakti Chattopadhyay
- Shankha Ghosh
- Sri Arobindo
- Srijato
- Subhash Mukherjee
- Subodh Sarkar
- Sudhindranath Datta
- Sudip Basu
- Sukanta Bhattacharya
- Sukumar Ray
- Suman Sen Sarma
- Sunil Ganguly
- Swami Vivekananda
- Purnendu Patri
- Gobindachandra Das
- Nirendranath Chakraborty
- Dipak Majumdar
- Utpal Kumar Basu
- Binoy Majumdar
- Manibhushan Bhattacharya
- Bhaskar Chakraborty
- Mridul Dasgupta
- Tushar Roy
- Falguni Ray
- Tushar Choudhury
- Ranajit Das
- Ekram Ali
- Krishna Basu
- Shyamalkanti Das
- Masuduzzaman
- Sujit Sarkar
- Bitashoke Bhattacharya
- Gautam Basu
- Hindol Bhattacharjee
- Mallika Sengupta
- Jahar Sen Mazumdar
- Sanjukta Bandopadhyay
- Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
- Rahul Purakayastha
- Sanjam Pal
- Chaitali Chattopadhyay
- Joydeb Basu
- Joy Goswami
- Aryanil Mukhopadhyay
- Samyabrata joardar
- Mandakranta Sen
- Paulami Sengupta Sarkar
- Dipankar Bagchi
- Taslima Nasrin
- Ferdous Nahar
- Sarbajit Sarkar
- Binayak Bandyopadhyaya
- Sibasis Mukhopadhyaya
- Rana Roychwodhury
- Pinaki Thakur
- Masud Khan
- Sajjad Sharif
- Subrata Augustine Gomes
- Bishnu Bishwas
- Ashim Kumar Das
- Badre Munir
- Salim Reza Newton
- Kamruzzaman Kamu
- Bratya Raisu
- Shoumyo Dasgupta
- Ankur Saha
Bhojpuri
Indian English Poets
- A K Ramanujan
- Adil Jussawalla
- Agha Shahid Ali
- Amit Chaudhuri
- Anjum Hasan
- Aparna Chatterjee
- Armando Menezes
- Arun Kolatkar
- Arundhati Subramaniam
- Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
- C P Surendran
- Desmond Kharmawphlang
- Dilip Chitre
- Dilip Sankarreddy
- Dom Moraes
- Dr. Mohammad Tauheed Ahmad
- Eunice De Souza
- Gavin Barrett
- Gayatri Majumdar
- Gieve Patel
- Gopi Kottoor
- Harry Behn
- Imtiaz Dharkar
- Indira Goswami
- Jayanta Mahapatra
- Jeet Thayil
- Jerry Pinto
- Joseph Furtado
- Kamala Das
- Keki N. Daruwalla
- Kersi Katrak
- Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
- Mamang Dai
- Mohammed Fakhruddin
- Nikhil Parekh
- Nissim Ezekiel
- P. Lal
- R Parthasarathy
- Robin S Ngangom
- Ranjit Hoskote
- Raman Mundair
- Rukmini Bhaya Nair
- Salim Peeradina
- Sarojini Naidu
- Smita Agarwal
- Sharanya Manivannan
- Shiv K Kumar
- Shreekumar Varma
- Subhash Misra
- Sudeep Sen
- Temsula Ao
- Tishani Doshi
- Toru Dutt
- Vijay Nambisan
- Yumlam Tana
Gujarati
- Narsinh Mehta
- Premanand
- Vir Narmad
- Umashankar Joshi
- Zaverchand Meghani (Mahatma Gandhi gave him a title 'Rashtriy Shayar')
- K.M. Munshi
- Akho
- Labhshankar Thakar
- Jagdish Bhagwati
- Niranjan Parekh
- Ramesh Parekh
- Makrand Dave
- Harindra Dave
- Suresh Dalal
- Bhanuprasad Pandya
Hindi
- Guru Bhakt Singh "Bhakt"
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan
- Ramdharisingh Dinkar
- Sumitranandan Pant
- Mahadevi Verma
- Nawal Kishore Dhawal
- Dr. Kumar Indubhusan Nehru
Kannada
- U. R. Ananthamurthy
- A. N. Murthy Rao
- Adikavi Pampa
- Akka Mahadevi
- Allama Prabhu
- Amoghavarsha
- Basava
- Bhavageete
- D. R. Bendre
- Chamarasa
- Chandrashekhara Kambara
- Chikkupadhyaya
- Dinakara Desai
- Gangadevi
- Gourish Kaikini
- Gopalakrishna Adiga
- Janna
- K. S. Nissar Ahmed
- Kanaka Dasa
- Kappe Arabhatta
- Kayyara Kinyanna Rai
- Kumara Vyasa
- Kuvempu
- M. Govinda Pai
- Mamta Sagar
- Nagavarma I
- Nagavarma II
- K. S. Narasimhaswamy
- Purandara Dasa
- Rajasekhara
- Ranna
- Rudrabhatta
- Samethanahalli Rama Rao
- Sarvajna
- Shishunala Sharif
- Shivakotiacharya
- Shivarama Karanth
- G. S. Shivarudrappa
- Sri Ponna
- B. M. Srikantaiah
- T. N. Srikantaiah
- Tirumalamba
- Vyasatirtha
Kashmiri
- Abdul Ahad Azad (1903-1948)
- Amin Kamil (b. 1924)
- Arnimal - (d. 1800)
- Ghulam Ahmad Mahjur - (1885-1952)
- Habba Khatun - (16th century)
- Lalleshwari - (14th century)
- Mahmud Gami - (1765-1855)
- Maqbool Shah Kralawari - (1820-1976)
- Nund Reshi
- Paramananda - (1791-1864)
- Rasul Mir - (d. 1870)
- Rehman Rahi
- Rupa Bhavani
- Zinda Kaul 'Masterji' - (1884-1965)
- Mir Haseen Subla
- Mirza Arif Beigh
Konkani
Malayalam
Medieval Poets
- Kannassa paniker
- Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan
- Cherussery
- Poonthanam Namboothiri
- Kunchan Nambyar
- Unnayi Warrier
- Kottayathu Thamburan
- Kunjikkuttan Thamburan
- Moyinkutty Vaidyar
- Pulikkotil Hyder
Renaissanse Poets
- Kumaran Asan (1873-1924)
- V. C. Balakrishna paniker
- Vallathol Narayana Menon (1878-1958)
- Ulloor S Parameswara Iyer (1877-1949)
- Keralavarma Valiyakoyithamburan
- A.R. rajarajavarma
- K. C. Kesavapillai
- Kuttippurathu Kesavan Nair
- Nalappatu Narayana Menon
- Vennikkulam
Romantic Poets
- Changampuzha Krishna pillai
- Vyloppillil Sreedharamenon
- EdappallY Rakhavan Pillai
- Edassery Govindan Nair
- P. Kunhiraman Nair
- G Sankara kurup
- Balamaniyamma
- Pala Narayanan Nair
Neo-Romantic Poets
- N. V. Krishna warrier
- Olappamanna
- P. Bhaskaran
- Vayalar Rama Varma
- O.N.V. Kurup
- Akkitham
- Sugathakumari
- R.Ramachandran
- G. Kumara Pillai
- Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri
- Kunjunni
Modernist Poets
- K. Ayyappa Panicker
- M. Govindan
- N. N. Kakkad
- Attoor Ravi Varma
- Madhavan Ayyappath
- Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan
- Satchidanandan
- K. G. Sankarappillai
- D.Vinayacandran
- A. Ayyappan
- Balachandran Chullikad
- Vijayalekshmi
- Savithri Rajeevan
Post-Modern Poets
- K. A. Jayaseelan
- N. G. Unnikrishnan
- T. P. Rajeevan
- V. M. Girija
- Anvar Ali
- P. P. Ramachandran
- O.P.Suresh
- K. R. Tony
- Kalpatta Narayanan
- S. Joseph
- Anitha Thampi
- Rafeeq Ahamed
- P. N. Gopikrishnan
- P. Raman
- Veeran Kutty
- Sreekumar Kariyad
- Manoj Kuroor
- Mohanakrishnan Kalady
- P. A. Nazimudin
- C. S. Jayachandran
- K.Rajagopal
Marathi
- Dilip Chitre
- Arun Kolatkar
- Sant Tukaram
- B.S.Mardhekar
- Namdeo Dhasal
- Bahinabai Chaudhari
- Geetkar Indira Sant
- N. D. Mahanor
- Hemant Divate
- Vilas Sarang
- Vasant Dattatrey Gurjar
- Sachin Ketkar
- GazalkarSuresh Bhat
- Kusumagraj
- [[Govidagraj]- Ram Ganesh Gadkari]
- Vinda Karandikar
- Narayan Surve
- Grace
- Geetkar Mangesh Padgaonkar
- B. R. Tambe
- P. S. Rege
- Sadanand Rege
- Manya Oak
- Baala Kavi - Trimbak Bapuji Thombare
- [[Shankar Vaidya]
Manipuri(Meitei-lon)
- Hijam Irabot
- Kwairakpam Chaoba
- sitaljit
- Nilbir shastri
- E.Nilakanta Singha
- L.Somarendra singha
- Jogeshwar waikha
- Khaidem Promodini
- Thangjam Ibopishak
- Kayamuddin Pukhrimayum
- Saratchand Thiyam
- Yumlembam Ibomcha
- Lanchenba Meetei
- R.K.Bhubonsana
- R.K.Madhubir
- Birendrojit Naorem
- B.S.Rajkumar
- Dilip Mayengbam
- Longjam Kunjarani Chanu
- Abdul Hamid
- Thokchom Biswanath
- Illabanta Yumnam
- Thounaojam Ibemhal Chanu (Memchoubi)
- S.Brojeshwar Singha
- Khairuddin Choudhury
- Abdus Shahid Choudhury
- L. Nanda Kumar Singha
Nepali
- Rup Narayan Singh
- Paras Mani Pradhan
- Parijat
- Raj Narayan Pradhan
- Leela Bahadur Chhetri
- Hari Bhakta Katuwal
- Agam Singh Giri
- Indra Bahadur Rai
- Tulasi Apatan
Oriya
- Gangadhar Meher
- Radhanath Roy
- Kuntala Kumari Sabat
- Radhamaohan Gadnaik
- Nanda Kishore Bala
- Gopabandhu
- Madhusudan Das
- Madhusudan Rao
Contemporary poets
- Satchidananda Rautroy
- Guru Prasad Mohanty
- Ramakanta Rath
- Sitakant Mahapatra
- Soubhagya Kumar Misra
- Rajendra Kishore Panda
- Hara Prasad Das
- Manoj Das
- Asutosh Parida
- Bhanuji Rao
- Pratibha Satpathy
Punjabi
Rajasthani
- Abdul Vaheed `Kamal'
- B.L. Mali Ashant
- Bankidas
- Bharat ola
- Chander Singh 'Birkali'
- Chandervardai
- Dushyant
- Harish Bhadani
- Kanhaiya Lal Dugar
- Kanhaiya LaL Sethia
- Kiran Nahta
- Kripa Ram Puniya
- Lakshmi Kumari Chundawat
- Mohan Alok
- Nand Bhardwaj
- Nanuram Sanskrita
- Narayan Singh Bhatti
- Om Purohit “Kagad”
- Shakidan Kaviya
- Shanti Bhardwaj “Rakesh”
- Sūdan
- Suryamal Misran
- Tej Singh Jodha
- Vijay Dan Detha
- Yadvender Sharma “Chander”
Sanskrit
Sindhi
- Geeta Narayan Bablani - Based in Pune.
- Caption Demla
- Gaytri
Tamil
- Mano Ranjan
- Bharatiyar
- Bharatidasan
- Kannadasan
- Vairamuthu
- Kamban
- Thiruvalluvar
- Ilango Adigal
- Avvaiyar
- Vaali
- Pa. Vijay
- Mu Metha
- Pulamaipitthan
- Thamarai
Telugu
- Abburi Varada Rajeswara Rao (1923-1993)
- Ajanta - Penumarti Viswanatha Sastry (1922-)
- Annamacharya
- Aarudhra - Bhagavatula Siva Sankara Sastry (1925-1998)
- Chaganti Somayajulu (1915-1993)
- Gurajada Apparao
- Molla
- Potana
- Tikkana
- Timmakka (Tallapaka Tirumalamma)
- Vemana
Modern Telugu Poets
- K Sivareddy
- Shikhamani
- Yendluri Sudhakar
- Madduri Nagesh babu
- Satish chandar
- Khaja (Poet)
- pydi theresh babu
- Olga
- kondepudi nirmala
Tibetan
Urdu
- [[Meer Babber Ali Anees](Marsiya writer)
- [Dr.Syed Ali Imam Zaidi"Gauher"Luckhnavi.(Marsiya writer)]
- [Syed Sajjad Husain "shadeed"(Marsiya writer)]
- Obaid Azam Azmi
- Shakeel Desnavi
- Manzar Hasan Desnavi
