Pt. Ram Kinkar Upadhyay (1924âÂÂ2002) Born in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, though his ancestral village was in Barainin, Near Bhatauli Bridge,Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh was a noted scholar on Indian scriptures and a recipient of Padma Bhushan in 1999. He was born on 1 November 1924 and died in 2002.