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Hindi is the lingua franca of northern India (which contains the Hindi Belt), as well as an official language of the Government of India, along with English. [ 70 ] In Northeast India a pidgin known as Haflong Hindi has developed as a lingua franca for the people living in Haflong , Assam who speak other languages natively. [ 91 ]
Long live Hindustan) is a Hindi phrase and battle cry most commonly used in the Republic of India in speeches and communications pertaining to or referring to patriotism towards India, and has been used since the British Raj in the colonial India. [1] It translates to "Long Live India". [2]
The emblem of the Supreme Court of India bearing the inscription, which it has adopted as its official motto. Sanskrit verse from the Mahabharata Yato Dharmastato Jayaḥ ( Sanskrit : यतो धर्मस्ततो जयः ) is a Sanskrit shloka that occurs a total of 13 times in the Hindu epic the Mahabharata .
The National Anthem of India is titled "Jana Gana Mana". The song was originally composed in Bengali by India's first Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore on 11 December 1911. [11] [12] [13] The parent song, 'Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata' is a Brahmo hymn that has five verses and only the first verse has been adopted as the national anthem.
Hindi Day (Hindi: हिन्दी दिवस, romanized: hindī divas) is celebrated in some parts of India to commemorate the date 14 September 1949 on which a compromise was reached—during the drafting of the Constitution of India—on the languages that were to have official status in the Republic of India.
Kedarnath Agarwal (1911–2000), Hindi language poet and littérateur; Kedarnath Singh (1934–2018), poet, critic and essayist; Keshavdas (1555–1617), Sanskrit scholar and Hindi poet; Kishorilal Goswami; Koduram Dalit (1910-1967) Kripa Shankar Sharma; Kripalu Maharaj (1922–2013), spiritual master and a poet-saint
Indian-origin religions Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, [4] are all based on the concepts of dharma and karma. Ahimsa, the philosophy of nonviolence, is an important aspect of native Indian faiths whose most well-known proponent was Shri Mahatma Gandhi, who used civil disobedience to unite India during the Indian independence movement – this philosophy further inspired Martin ...
Following the independence of India, it was adopted as the national motto of India on 26 January 1950, the day India became a republic. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is inscribed in the Devanagari script at the base of the Lion Capital of Ashoka and forms an integral, part of the Indian national emblem .