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  2. List of Indian historical novels - Wikipedia

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    Indian history from Chandargupta Maurya (4th century BC) to the post-Independence period in India and Pakistan. Raj Kahini: Abanindranath Tagore: 1963 Bengali: Set in Rajputana: Kumarsambhaber Kabi: Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay: 1963 Bengali: Based on Kalidasa: Tungabhadrar Teere: Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay: 1965 Bengali: Set in Vijaynagar Empire The ...

  3. List of historic Indian texts - Wikipedia

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    Hindu hymns about various gods, scientific revelations and references to historic events. Part 1 of the four part Hindu canon. Veda/Samhita: Sanskrit: No concrete information available, but attributed to several rishis. 1500-1200 BCE [1] Sapta Sindhva: Indus region (Indus + its five tributaries + Saraswati) Yajur Veda: Hindu sacrificial knowledge.

  4. Old Hindi - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    Dwivedi became the editor of Saraswati in 1903, the first Hindi monthly magazine of India, which was established in 1900. [13] He used it to crusade for reforms in the Hindi literature. One of the most prominent poems of the period was Maithili Sharan Gupt's Bharat-bharati, which evokes the past glory of India.

  6. Linguistic history of India - Wikipedia

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    A Jain text Shravakachar written in 933AD is considered the first Hindi book. [3] Modern Hindi is based on the prestigious Khariboli dialect which started to take Persian and Arabic words too with the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate; however, the Arabic-Persian influence was profound mainly on Urdu and to a lesser extent on Hindi.

  7. Glossary of history - Wikipedia

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    3. The history of historical writing about a particular topic. historism history The study of the past as it is described in written documents; events occurring before written record are generally considered prehistory. The term is also commonly used to refer to any set of events which happened earlier in time, written or otherwise. History in ...

  8. Jambudvīpa - Wikipedia

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    The other three continents of Buddhist accounts around Sumeru are not accessible to humans from Jambudvīpa. Jambudvīpa is shaped like a triangle with a blunted point facing south, somewhat like the Indian subcontinent. In its center is a gigantic Jambu tree from which the continent takes its name, meaning "Jambu Island".

  9. Hindustani verbs - Wikipedia

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    The meaning conveyed is the doer went somewhere to do something. and came back after completing the action. 1. karnā "to do" 2. nikalnā "to come out" 1. kar ānā "to finish (and come back)", "to do (and return)"; 2. nikal ānā "to escape" cuknā "to have (already) completed something" Shows sense of completeness of an action in the past ...