[1][2] Bisheshwar Prasad Keshari was born in Pithoria in Ranchi district in Bihar Province on 1 July 1933 to Shivnarayan Sahu and Lagan Devi in a Kesarwani family.

He established the Tribal and Regional language department at Ranchi University along with Ram Dayal Munda in the 1980s.

As a result, Central government formed a committee on the Jharkhand matter in 1989.

[7] He established "Nagpuri Sansthan" on 17 February 2002 with his wife Shanti Keshri in Pithoria.

His cremation was performed with the state honour in Pithoria and attended by minister Chandra Prakash Choudhary, Sudesh Mahto, women's commission chairman Mahua Maji and associates from AJSU Party, Surya Singh Besra and Deo Sharan Bhagat.