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Hinglish. Hinglish is the macaronic hybrid use of English and the Hindustani language. [1][2][3][4][5] Its name is a portmanteau of the words Hindi and English. [6] In the context of spoken language, it involves code-switching or translanguaging between these languages whereby they are freely interchanged within a sentence or between sentences.
Awadhi, a dialect of the Hindi dialect continuum, is the native dialect of Lucknow and has played an important role in Lucknow's history and is still used in the city's rural areas and by the urban population on the streets. [179] Historically, Lucknow was considered one of the great centres of Muslim culture.
Ayodhya is a legendary city mentioned in the ancient Sanskrit -language texts, including the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. These texts describe it as the capital of the Ikshvaku kings, including Rama. [1] The historicity of this legendary city is of concern to the Ayodhya dispute. According to one theory, it is same as the present-day Ayodhya city.
Moreover, the complete Persianisation of the Mughal administrative system meant that the language reached both urban centres as well as villages, and a larger audience for Persian literature developed. [22] In this way, Persian became a second language to many across North India; Muzaffar Alam contends that it neared the status of a first ...
The Painted Grey Ware culture (PGW) is an Iron Age Indo-Aryan culture of the western Gangetic plain and the Ghaggar-Hakra valley in the Indian subcontinent, conventionally dated c. 1200 to 600–500 BCE, [1][2] or from 1300 to 500–300 BCE. [3][4][5] It is a successor of the Cemetery H culture and Black and red ware culture (BRW) within this ...
The Central Institute of Hindi (Hindi: केंद्रीय हिंदी संस्थान Kendrīya Hindī Sansthān) is an institution that promotes the Hindi language in India. It is run by the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India. It was established in 1960 by the Ministry of Education, engaged in ...
Kharagpur (Bengali: [kʰɔɽɔɡɔpuɾ] ⓘ; Hindi: [kʰəɽəɡpʊɾ]) is a semi- planned urban agglomeration and a major industrial city in the Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, India. It is the headquarters of the Kharagpur subdivision and the largest city of the district. [ 6 ] It is located 120 km west of Kolkata.
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), [9] commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India.