[1] Gangadhara was born in a Bhuliya Tanti family on 1862 on the full moon day of Shravana Purnima at Barpali of present-day Bargarh district of Odisha.

Chaitanya Meher was working as a village Vaidya (Ayurvedic doctor) besides his family profession of weaving.

Gangadhara Meher could read up to the Middle Vernacular Standard hurdling over diverse disadvantages, and his keen eagerness for literature eventually sparked his skills in writing poems.

Coming to learn of amicable behaviours and good virtues of Gangadhara, the Zamindar promoted him to the post of a Moharir.

During the last age of his life, the poet organized an All Odisha Social Conference of Mehers with a view to uplifting the entire weaver society.

The works produced by Gangadhara Meher are marked by vivid imagination, in beauty and clarity of language, in the novelty of style, in point of forceful character painting and in the lively description of nature from different perspectives.

A research was conducted in North orissa University which reveals many similarities between Gangadhar Meher and western romantic poets like P.B Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats.The treatment of nature is equally same in their poetries.