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Hindi literature (Hindi: हिंदी साहित्य, romanized: hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Central Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Hindi, some of which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa such as Awadhi and Marwari.
In the Hindustani Academy library, there are 25,000 books available in Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, English, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, and other Indian languages. It also includes three hundred ancient manuscripts, comprising handwritten and monoblock printed copies, along with a collection of over 8,000 literary magazines and newspapers.
Anthony Askew (fl. 1699–1774), English physician and book collector Barry Askew (1936–2012), English newspaper editor Christopher Crackenthorp Askew (23 May 1782 — 7 December 1848), Royal Navy Captain
The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature is a multi-volume English language encyclopedia of Indian literature published by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. The idea for the project emerged in the mid-1970s, and three volumes were planned to cover all Indian literature, including that in native vernaculars. The scope of the ...
Recent research [6] shows that there are references to Ainscoughs in the Ormskirk area as early as the 13thC – William of Ainscough was a beneficiary to the church in Ormskirk; and there is a reference in 'The Cartulary of Burscough Priory' (1199-c. 1230) to a piece of land in the Scarisbrick estate called Aykescogh (Oak Wood) in the 12thC.
Chitralekha is a 1934 Hindi novel by the Indian novel writer Bhagwati Charan Verma about the philosophy of life, love, sin and virtue. It is said to be modelled on Anatole France's 1890 novel Thaïs but set in India. [1] However, the author noted in the book's preface:
Kunwar Narayan (19 September 1927 – 15 November 2017) [1] was a poet in Indian literature in Hindi. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] He read and traveled widely and wrote for six decades. He was linked to the New Poetry movement.
Shekhar: Ek Jivani is considered a unique and landmark novel in Hindi literature. [ 6 ] [ 13 ] The experimental nature of the novel gave it attention, [ 6 ] and many critics recognized it as the first psychoanalytical novel of Hindi literature due to its focus on thematising the gap between the external world and internal states. [ 2 ]