Kamta Prasad Guru was an expert on grammar of Hindi

Hindi

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

 language. He was writer of the book "Hindi vyakarana". He was born in Sagar in Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

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 state in India

India

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. His Hindi grammar book has been translated into many foreign languages. Kamta Prasad Guru died in Jabalpur on November 16, 1947. The Government of India

Government of India

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 issued a commemorative stamp in his honour in 1977.