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LC Class PR9540.9.S53 I34 1991 Cracking India (1991, U.S., 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man , 1988, England) is a novel by author Bapsi Sidhwa .
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Lie Kim Hok, author of Siti Akbari. Siti Akbari was written by Lie Kim Hok, a Bogor-born peranakan Chinese who was taught by Dutch missionaries. The missionaries introduced him to European literature, [2] including the works of Dutch writers such as Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint and Jacob van Lennep, [3] as well as works by French authors like Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas, and ...
Akbari Fort & Museum is a museum in Ajmer. It has been named Rajputana Museum. It has been named Rajputana Museum. It was once the residence of Prince Salīm , the son of the Emperor Akbar , and presently houses a collection of Mughal and Rajput armor and sculpture.
In Odisha, vessels without the spout is also known as lota, while spout vessel is known as Jeri, used for prayer rituals and serving liquor. [9] [3] They are also known as Karwa, Jharis and Achaman Jharis (utensils with spouts) in Hindi Belt and Gujarat in northern and western India, used for prayer rituals. [10]
Karmabhoomi (Hindi: कर्मभूमि, translated,The Land Where One Works) is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand. The novel is set in the Uttar Pradesh of the 1930s. [ 1 ] By the beginning of the 20th century, Islam and Hinduism had coexisted in India for over a thousand years.
Mohan Rakesh (8 January 1925 – 3 December 1972) was one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani ("New Story") literary movement of the Hindi literature in India in the 1950s. He wrote the first modern Hindi play, Ashadh Ka Ek Din (One Day in Aashad) (1958), which won a competition organised by the Sangeet Natak Akademi.
This period also shows further Sanskritization of the Hindi language in literature. Hindi is right now the official language in nine states of India— Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh—and the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Post-independence Hindi became ...