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  2. Purushottam Agrawal - Wikipedia

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    Notable awards. Devishanker Awasthi Samman, Mukutdhar Pandey Samman,Pratham Rajkamal Pandulipi Puraskar. Spouse. Suman Keshari. Children. Ritwik Agrawal (Son) Ritambhara Agrawal (Daughter) Website. purushottamagrawal .com. Purushottam Agrawal (born 25 August 1955) is an Indian writer and former member of the Union Public Service Commission board.

  3. Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule - Wikipedia

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    Hind Swaraj. or. Indian Home Rule. Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule is a book written by Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1909. [ 1] In it he expresses his views on Swaraj, modern civilization, mechanisation, among other matters. [ 2] In the book, Gandhi repudiates European civilization while expressing loyalty to higher ideals of empire ("moral empire"). [ 1]

  4. Official scripts of India - Wikipedia

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    Being the official script for Hindi, Devanagari is officially used in the Union Government of India as well as several Indian states where Hindi is an official language, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and the Indian union territories of Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli ...

  5. History of India - Wikipedia

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    Timeline of Indian history. Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the Nanda Empire and established the first great empire in ancient India, the Maurya Empire. India's Mauryan king Ashoka is widely recognised for his historical acceptance of Buddhism and his attempts to spread nonviolence and peace across his empire.

  6. Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha - Wikipedia

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    Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha is an organisation whose main goal is to improve Modern Standard Hindi literacy among the non-Hindi speaking people of South India. The headquarters are located at Thanikachalam Road, T. Nagar, Chennai . The organisation was established by Mahatma Gandhi, who became the founder president of the Sabha, who ...

  7. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    Devanāgarī is part of the Brahmic family of scripts of India, Nepal, Tibet, and Southeast Asia. [ 23][ 24] It is a descendant of the 3rd century BCE Brāhmī script, which evolved into the Nagari script which in turn gave birth to Devanāgarī and Nandināgarī. Devanāgarī has been widely adopted across India and Nepal to write Sanskrit ...

  8. List of historic Indian texts - Wikipedia

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    1500-800 BCE [ 1] Shakhas. Vedic school. Each school taught a Veda in a specific way, over time evolving specific styles and emphasis, based on how / by whom / where it was taught. Brahmanas. Commentary and elaboration on vedas and description of religious procedures. 900-500 BCE [ 2] Upanishads.

  9. Lipi (script) - Wikipedia

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    Lipi means 'writing, letters, alphabet', and contextually refers to scripts, the art or manner of writing, or in modified form such as lipī to painting, decorating or anointing a surface to express something. [ 2][ 3] The term lipi appears in multiple texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, some of which have been dated to the 1st millennium ...