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New Delhi (/ ˈ nj uː ˈ d ɛ. l i / ⓘ, [6] Hindi: [ˈnəiː ˈdɪlːiː], ISO: Naī Dillī) is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the Government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Sansad Bhavan, and the Supreme Court.
Official language of Punjab; additional official language of Delhi, Haryana, West Bengal [33] [34] 1950 Gurmukhi: Sanskrit: 0.02: Classical and scriptural language of India, but not widely spoken, nor the language of any modern Indian community. [39] Additional official language of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. 1950 Devanagari, Brahmi and ...
Early forms of present-day Hindustani developed from the Middle Indo-Aryan apabhraṃśa vernaculars of present-day North India in the 7th–13th centuries. [33] [38] Hindustani emerged as a contact language around the Ganges-Yamuna Doab (Delhi, Meerut and Saharanpur), a result of the increasing linguistic diversity that occurred during the Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent.
In the 2015 Legislative Assembly election, 12 out of Delhi's 70 constituencies were reserved for scheduled caste candidates because of dominant Dalit population. [8] According to a 2015 report by The Tribune, Delhi has 81% Hindus and 11.7% Muslims. 35% Punjabi population controls 15-20% vote share in at least 20 constituencies. Purvanchalis, as ...
The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey is a novel by Indian author Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar.Published in the year 2014, this was his first book. For this novel, Shekhar won the 2015 Yuva Puraskar, [1] [2] was shortlisted for the 2014 Crossword Book Award [3] and the 2014 Hindu Literary Prize, [4] longlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award, [5] and jointly won the 2015 Muse ...
However, the armies, merchants, preachers, Sufis, and later the court, also incorporated the local people and elements of the medieval Hindu literary language, Braj Bhasha. This new contact language soon incorporated other dialects, such as Haryanvi, Panjabi, and in the 17th century the dialect of the new capital at Delhi. By 1800, Delhi ...
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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.