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The first book written by an Indian in English was The Travels of Dean Mahomet, a travel narrative by Sake Dean Mahomed, published in England in 1794. IEL, in its early stages had influence from The Western novel. Early Indian writers used English unadulterated by Indian words to convey an experience which was essentially Indian.
Sandarbh primarily serves as a resource on a variety of topics for teachers and students in primary, middle, and high schools. In addition to feature articles, analyses of curricula and pedagogies, reviews of text-books and children's literature, biographies, interviews, teacher's experiences, and fiction also find space in the magazine.
A History of Hindi literature, by K. B. Jindal. Published by Kitab Mahal, 1955. Hindi Literature from Its Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century, by Ronald Stuart McGregor. Published by Harrassowitz, 1984. ISBN 3-447-02413-5. Hindi Literature of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, by Ronald Stuart McGregor. Published by Harrassowitz, 1974.
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 ...
Arab and Persian vocabulary based on the Hindi language resulted in a vast and popular class of ghazal literature, usually written by Muslims in contexts ranging from romance and society to philosophy and Tassawuf (Sufism). [citation needed] [verification needed]
Researchers have also proposed that the term may be associated with the reflection of the literary expression exemplified in Tagore's Gitanjali which itself was influenced by Romanticism of English literature. [5] The first use of the term chāyāvād in the context of Hindi poetry is attributed to Mukutdhar Pandey, who introduced it through ...
A term which originally referred to a place where sporting events take place and referred to any of various meets at which contests were held to test the skill of the competitors. In English-speaking countries, a gymkhana refers to a multi-game equestrian event performed to display the training and talents of horses and their rider [ -khānā ...
Like most contemporary Indian writers, Ugra was committed to promoting both social reform and Indian independence from the British Empire. [5] In the words of Ruth Vanita, "he delighted in iconoclasm; few writers of the time match his unsentimental depictions of the family, whether urban or rural, as a hotbed of violence, neglect, hatred, sexual depravity, and oppression"; [6] "his fiction ...