Beniram or Pandit Beniram was a Bhojpuri poet and a contemporary of Bharatendu Harishchandra. He used to compose Kajari and was a great composer of it.[1] His notable work is Kajari Bidesiya which he composed during the 1860s.[2] He is credited with using the word Bidediya to address a person who has left the home and gone away for the first time in a folk song which he wrote in 1884.[3]

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  1. ^ Tiwari, Ajrun (2014). Bhojpuri Sahitya Ke Itihas. Vishwavidyalaya Prakashan. pp. 149–150.
  2. ^ Kumar, Ashutosh (2017). Coolies of the Empire. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107147959.
  3. ^ Narayan, Badri (2016). Culture and Emotional Economy of Migration. Routledge. ISBN 978-1315448022.