M. G. Gupta
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|name = M. G. Gupta
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|birth_date = 29 August 1925
|birth_place = Kairana, Uttar Pradesh, India
|death_date = {{death date and age|2011|12|11|1925|08|29|df=y}}
|death_place = Agra
|pseudonym=Bekas Akbarabadi
|notableworks=Sarmad the Saint: Life and Works (1991)
|awards=Bharat Jyoti Award
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M. G. Gupta, known as Bekas Akbarabadi (1925-2011), was an Indian Urdu poet and research scholar. He wrote several books including Indian mysticism, Sikh Gurus, Saint Kabir, Hindu epics and others. He received the Bharat Jyoti Award for his contribution in the field of education and research.
Early life
Gupta was born on 29 August 1925 in Kairana, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, in British India (now the state of Uttar Pradesh in India). He pursued his Masters of Arts in Political Science. He served as a professor at the Allahabad University where he taught for twenty years, he was a scholar of Persian literature, comparative religion and mysticism. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters by the Allahabad University in 1965. He also served as a registrar of Agra University.{{cite web|title=Author's page|url=http://www.humabooks.com/blog/?page_id=2|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629113513/http://www.humabooks.com/blog/?page_id=2|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 June 2013|publisher=Huma Books|access-date=16 April 2013}} He died on 12 December 2011 in Agra.{{cite web|title=Truth Unvarnished Part-3|url=http://radhasoami-faith.info/books/Truth_UV_Part_III/Truth_UV_Part_III_index_Netscape.php|publisher=Radhasoami Faith|access-date=16 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814014421/http://radhasoami-faith.info/books/Truth_UV_Part_III/Truth_UV_Part_III_index_Netscape.php|archive-date=14 August 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Author|url=http://www.vedamsbooks.in/no40564/maulana-rums-masnawi-6-volsset-mg-gupta|publisher=vedam books|access-date=16 April 2013}}
Works
In 1985 he wrote a book called Bekas Akbarabadi.{{cite book|last1=Gupta and Shukla|title=Foreign Policy of India, Volume 1|date=2009|publisher=Atlantic|isbn=9788126910304|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hx6O-BiIFTcC&pg=PA83 |access-date=13 August 2014}} In 1992 he wrote a book called Indian mysticism.{{cite book|last1=Hummel|first1=Günter von|title=Yoga and Psychoanalysis|date=2010|publisher=Books on Demand|page=9|isbn=9783842324749|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L_JlhS1AOdEC&pg=PA9 |access-date=13 August 2014}} He also wrote books on the Sikh Gurus, Saint Kabir and on the Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. In July 1993, he was awarded the Bharat Jyoti Award for his 'contribution in the field of education and research'. A collection of his poems entitled, Rahat-i-Ruh was published in 2004.{{cite web|title=Truth Unvarnished Part-3|url=http://radhasoami-faith.info/books/Truth_UV_Part_III/Truth_UV_Part_III_index_Netscape.php|publisher=Radhasoami Faith|access-date=16 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814014421/http://radhasoami-faith.info/books/Truth_UV_Part_III/Truth_UV_Part_III_index_Netscape.php|archive-date=14 August 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Author|url=http://www.vedamsbooks.in/no40564/maulana-rums-masnawi-6-volsset-mg-gupta|publisher=vedam books|access-date=16 April 2013}}
Sarmad the Saint
Gupta wrote and published his celebrated work Sarmad the Saint: Life and Works in 1991. According to A. G. Noorani, Indian Express, 21 June 1992 (New Delhi) "… the first definitive study of Sarmad's life, and an English translation of original Persian text of all the 341 quatrains by Dr. MG Gupta. He has also translated the legendary Rumi's classic work, the Mathnawi. Dr. Gupta's scholarship is evident … (He) traces Sarmad's life with a wealth of authentic references …"{{cite book|last1=Sikand|first1=Yoginder|title=Sacred Spaces: Exploring Traditions of Shared Faith in India|date=2003|publisher=Penguin|page=192|isbn=9780143029311|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RBkwnoDPKgUC&pg=PA273 |access-date=13 August 2014}}{{cite book|last1=Noorani|first1=Abdul Gafoor Abdul Majeed|title=Indian Political Trials, 1775-1947, Issue 66|year=2005|publisher=Oxford|page=313|isbn=9780195672152|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m15uAAAAMAAJ&q=Sarmad+Gupta|access-date=13 August 2014}}{{cite book|last1=Gupta|first1=M. G.|title=Sarmad the Saint: Life and Works, Revised Edition|year=1991|isbn=818553232X}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?st=xl&ac=qr&src=dir&author=M.G.%20Gupta Books by M. G. Gupta]
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Category:Urdu-language poets from India
Category:20th-century Indian poets
Category:Poets from Uttar Pradesh