Pandit Vanshidhar Shukla (23 January 1904 – 26 April 1980) was an Indian freedom fighter, politician, and poet of Hindi and Awadhi language.
[4] Vanshidhar Shukla was born on 23 January 1904 in Manyora village, Lakhimpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India, and belonged to a farming family.
After the Kheri bomb incident, Shukla's house was raided by the police, and they confiscated revolutionary literature, and he was sentenced to six months in jail.
[8] In 1977, he was felicitated by the state government of Uttar Pradesh at Lucknow University in a ceremony chaired by storyteller Amritlal Nagar, and attended by prominent Indian writers.
[9] The Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan established an award in his honour, known as the "Vanshidhar Shukla Sarjana Puraskar", which is presented annually to writers for their contributions to Awadhi literature.