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The Victorian novel, Elizabethan drama, free verse and Modernism entered Punjabi literature through the introduction of British education during the Raj. The first Punjabi printing press (using Gurmukhi font) was established through a Christian mission at Ludhiana in 1835, and the first Punjabi dictionary was published by Reverend J. Newton in ...
In 1919, a Punjabi dictionary, simply titled as English-Punjabi Dictionary, was published at Calcutta, being authored by Reverend Thomas Grahame Bailey of the Scottish Mission in Wazirabad. [6] This dictionary contained 5,800 words, including their Latin script equivalents, to assist Europeans learning the Punjabi language to converse with ...
Guru Shabad Ratnakar Mahan Kosh (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਸ਼ਬਦ ਰਤਨਾਕਰ ਮਹਾਨ ਕੋਸ਼), known by its more popular name of Mahan Kosh (ਮਹਾਨ ਕੋਸ਼) and by the English title Encyclopædia of the Sikh Literature, is a Punjabi language encyclopedia and dictionary which was compiled by Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha over fourteen years. [1]
Poets of Punjabi language (Shahmukhi: پنجاب دے شاعر, Gurmukhi: ਪੰਜਾਬ ਦੇ ਕਵੀ). This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
A critic, scholar and translator, Rana Nayar has been a pioneer in bringing into Punjabi translation a great number of classics from Punjabi literature. Among the prominent Punjabi authors he has translated are included such literary giants as Gurdial Singh, [5] Raghubir Dhand, Mohan Bhandari and Beeba Balwant inter alia.
[1] [2] [3] The poem is dated to around 760 CE and its language has close affinities to Punjabi, which developed later. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 3 ] The poem is a doha couplet. Text
Sahib Singh (1892–1977); Sohan Singh Seetal (1909-1998) Poet, Novelist, historian, Authored more than 60 books; Santokh Singh Dhir (1920–2010); Giani Sant Singh Maskeen (1934–2005)
Mirza and Sahiban under the tree. Mirza Sahiban [a] (Punjabi: [mɪɾzaː saːɦɪbãː]) is a traditional Punjabi tragedy originally written by the 17th-century poet Pilu.Set in a village in Jhang, the tragedy follows the romance between two youths, belonging to chieftain families of their respective clans, their elopement and eventual demise.