Lala Bhagwan Din (1866 – 1930) was a Hindi writer of the early modern period. He was educated in Urdu and Persian from a young age. Lala Bhagwan Din taught at a college in Fatehpur and later at Banaras Hindu University. The Hindi litterateurs, Ayodhya Singh Upadhaya, Ramachandra Shukla, and Shyam Sundar Das were his contemporaries. For many years he was closely associated with the publication of the Hindi dictionary of the Nagari Pracharini Sabha. In 1905 he became the editor of Lakshmi Upadesh Lahari. He wrote elaborate and erudite glosses on Ramcandrika, Kavipriya, and Rasikpriya of Keshvadas, Vinayapatrika of Tulasidas, and Bihari Satsai of Bihari.
Apart from poems and essays, Bhagwan Din also wrote biographies
of brave men of character. His anthologies are Naveen Been, Veerpancaratna and
Nadeem-e-deen. His specialty was the savvaiya meter of Hindi. He wrote both in
Braja bhasha and Khadi boli Hindi. Sometimes he used the meters prevalent in Urdu
for his Hindi poetry as well. All his works have been published in an anthology
Deen Granthavali from Varanasi.
His two other works of importance are in the field of Indian
poetics. One is on figures of speech (Alankar Manjusha) and the other on the
power of innuendo (Vyangyarth Manjusha). His contribution to Hindi literature
is remembered because, at a time of transition between the old Braja bhasha
dialect considered appropriate for creative writing, and the new emerging
practicality of Khadi boli Hindi, he continued to write in both, helping to
form a bridge between the two for a smooth transition.