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In the year 1972, Meitei language was given the recognition by the National Sahitya Akademi, the highest Indian body of language and literature, as one of the major Indian languages. [88] [89] On 20 August 1992, Meitei language was included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India and made one of the languages with official status in ...
The term Old Hindi is a retrospectively coined term, to indicate the ancestor language of Modern Standard Hindi, which is an official language of India.The term Hindi literally means Indian in Classical Persian, and was also called Hindustani to denote that it was the language of Hindustan's capital during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire.
The Kakatiya dynasty (IAST: Kākatīya) [a] was a Telugu dynasty that ruled most of eastern Deccan region in present-day India between 12th and 14th centuries. [6] Their territory comprised much of the present day Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and parts of eastern Karnataka, northern Tamil Nadu, and southern Odisha.
The foundation for the Pandya supremacy in south India was laid by Maravarman Sundara I early in the 13th century. [91] He succeeded his older brother Jatavarman Kulasekhara in 1216. [ 92 ] He invaded the Chola country, sacked Uraiyur and Thanjavur , and drove the Chola king Kulothunga III into exile.
The 13th century was the century which lasted from January 1, 1201 (represented by the Roman numerals MCCI) through December 31, 1300 (MCCC) in accordance with the Julian calendar. The Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan , which stretched from Eastern Asia to Eastern Europe .
Religious literature flourished during the period. The Tamil epic, Kamban's Ramavatharam, was written in the 13th century. A contemporary of Kamban was the famous poet Auvaiyar who found great happiness in writing for young children. The secular literature was mostly court poetry devoted to the eulogy of the rulers.
In the first half of the millennium the South saw various small kingdoms rise and fall mostly independent to the turmoil in the Gangetic plains and the spread of the Buddhism and Jainism to the southern tip of India. From the mid-seventh to the mid-13th centuries, regionalism was the dominant theme of political and dynastic history of the ...