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  2. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Hindi is the fastest growing language of India, followed by Kashmiriin the second place, with Meitei(officially called Manipuri) as well as Gujarati, in the third place, and Bengaliin the fourth place, according to the 2011 census of India. [32] Terminology.

  3. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Hindi literature ( Hindi: हिन्दी साहित्य, hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Hindi languages which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa like Awadhi, and Marwari languages. Hindi literature is composed in three broad styles ...

  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. 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 ...

  6. Hindu texts - Wikipedia

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    Hindu texts or Hindu scriptures are manuscripts and voluminous historical literature which are related to any of the diverse traditions within Hinduism. Some of the major Hindu texts include the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Itihasa. Scholars hesitate in defining the term "Hindu scriptures" given the diverse nature of Hinduism, [ 1][ 2] but ...

  7. Ancient scripts of the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    The Śāradā, Sarada or Sharada script is an abugida writing system of the Brahmic family of scripts. The script was widespread between the 8th and 12th centuries in the northwestern parts of Indian Subcontinent (in Kashmir and northern KPK), for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri. [18] [19] [20] Originally more widespread, its use became later ...

  8. Indian literature - Wikipedia

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    Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter. The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India has 22 officially recognised languages. Sahitya Akademi, India's highest literary body, also has 24 recognised literary languages .

  9. List of Hindi authors - Wikipedia

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    Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (1917–1964), modern Hindi poet; Guru Bhakt Singh 'Bhakt' (1893–1983), "Wordsworth of India" Guru Gobind Singh Ji (1666–1708), the tenth Guru of Sikhism; Babu Gulabrai (1888–1963), philosopher and Hindi writer; Gopaldas Neeraj (1925–2018), poet and author; Giriraj Kishore (1937–2020), writer