 "Hindi Sahitya ka Itihaas" is considered as authentic Hindi literature.Ram Chandra Shukla was married to Savitri Devi and had two sons, Keshav Chandra and Gokul Chandra, and three daughters, Durgavati, Vidhya and Kamla.He was a painter and designed his own house, which was incomplete when he died in 1941.