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Hindi literature is composed in three broad styles- prose (गद्य, gadya), poetry (पद्य, padya), and prosimetrum (चंपू, campū). [1] Inspired by Bengali literature, Bharatendu Harishchandra started the modern Hindi literary practices.
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 ...
Bipan Chandra (24 May 1928 – 30 August 2014) [2] was an Indian historian, specialising in economic and political history of modern India.An emeritus professor of modern history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, he specialized on the Indian independence movement and is considered a leading scholar on Mahatma Gandhi.
Makers of Modern India is a non-fiction book written by Indian historian-scholar Ramachandra Guha and published by Penguin India in 2010. The book features profiles of selected personalities that laid the foundation of modern India: Ram Mohan Roy, Syed Ahmad Khan, Khuda Bakhsh, Jotirao Phule, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Tarabai Shinde, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, B. R ...
Hindi literature started as religious and philosophical poetry in medieval periods in dialects like Avadhi and Brij. The most famous figures from this period are Kabir and Tulsidas. In modern times, the Dehlavi dialect of the Hindi Belt became more prominent than Sanskrit. [citation needed] [verification needed]
Phanishwar Nath 'Renu' (1921–1977), Hindi novelist; Padma Sachdev (1940–2021), poet, novelist in Hindi and Dogri; Pran Kumar Sharma (1938–2014), creator of Chacha Choudhary; Premchand (1880–1936), modern Hindustani literature; Priyamvad (1952–), writer and historian in Hindi. Parichay Das (1964–), writer and editor in contemporary ...
Book Subject Area Topic Collection Language Author Date Reign of Reign Age Geographic Region Modern Name of Geographic Region Notes Rig Veda: 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 ...
Ashirbadi Lal Srivastava, more commonly known as A.L. Srivastava, born 16 September 1899, in Andhana, Uttar Pradesh, died 12 July 1973, in Agra district, was an Indian historian specialising in medieval, early modern and modern history of India.