History
Timelineसमय-रेखा
This timeline is deliberately uneven. The eras for which no record has been found appear here as gaps rather than as filler. An empty stretch is information too, and in this archive it is the most useful kind.
Confidence
1900–1947
The railway, Tripathi's life, the national movement
1903
The Sultanpur District Gazetteer is published
The earliest accessible administrative description of the region, and still the source the district administration cites on its own history page. For Koiripur it is the first document that must be read page by page.
1917–33
Kavita Kaumudi is published in six parts
The first Hindi anthology to collect village songs. Tripathi gathered the material by travelling through villages — the work that makes Koiripur's claim on literary history its strongest.
1947–1970
Independence, land reform, schools
1958
A poem is datelined “Koiripur (Sultanpur)”
Dated 8 April, this dateline is evidence that he was still writing from the town late in life — the most direct evidence of his continuing connection to Koiripur.
1962
Ram Naresh Tripathi dies, 16 January
He left behind close to a hundred books, written or edited. The auditorium in Sultanpur carries his name; no memorial to him in Koiripur itself has yet been documented.