
A contents page from Ram Naresh Tripathi's Kavita Kaumudi (1917). The headings that follow the list of poets — Khusro's riddles, farming proverbs, folk sayings — are the direct evidence for the claim that this is the first Hindi anthology to collect village song.
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Ram Naresh Tripathi, Kavita Kaumudi (1917), public domain, via the Internet Archive and Wikimedia CommonsCitation
Kavita Kaumudi — a page of the contents. Photograph: Internet Archive / Digital Library of India, via Wikimedia Commons, 1917 · Public domain (India — author died 1962). Koiripur Digital Archive, KPR-2026-0003. https://koiripur.com/en/sangrah/KPR-2026-0003