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  • Mahadevi Verma (March 26, 1907 – September 11, 1987) was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, sketch story writer, and an eminent personality ...
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  • considered the greatest and most famous of Hindi poets. He is regarded as ... common speech, and are used by millions of Hindi speakers (and even speakers ...
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  • The tabla (Urdu: تبلہ, Hindi: तबला, tubblaa) (or pronounced "Thabla" in Malayalam) is a popular Indian percussion instrument ...
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  • of her poems are in a Rajasthani dialect of Hindi, they are also considered ... of singing was Vraja-bhasha, a dialect of Hindi spoken in and around Vrindavan ...
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  • While Hindi is the official language of the central government in ... is no one "national language." Hindi is the official language ...
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  • Masala chai (Hindi (मसाला चाय [masālā chāy], "spiced ... Masala chai (Hindi (मसाला चाय [masālā chāy], "spiced ...
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  • Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Sindhi, Bihari ... New Indo-Aryan languages: Western Hindi, Bhojpuri, and Marathi. ...
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  • Samadhi is also the Hindi word for a structure commemorating the dead ... Mahasamadhi (literally great samadhi) is the Hindi term for a realized ...
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  • he occasionally wrote in a form of early Hindi, combined with his extended ... he occasionally wrote in a form of early Hindi, combined with his extended ...
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  • and Malay), Besar (Nepali), haldi (Hindi), arishina (Kannada), pasupu ... * Haldi in Hindi and Urdu. * Haldar in Gujarati * ਹਲਦੀ (Haldi ...
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  • (Nepali/Hindi: गंगटोक), the capital and largest town of ... Daily newspapers in English, Nepali, and Hindi are available in Gangtok ...
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  • Urdu is often contrasted with Hindi, another standardized form of ... Because of Urdu's similarity to Hindi, speakers of the two languages ...
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  • Khajuraho (Hindi खजुराहो), a village in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, located in Chhatarpur District, about 385 miles (620 ...
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  • modern languages of the world, including Hindi, Bengali, and Marathi. of north and central India, including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, and many ...
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  • |official_languages = Hindi |area_magnitude= sq. km |area_total = |area_telephone = |postal_code = |vehicle_code_range = |sex_ratio = ...
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  • * In the popular Hindi film Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), Rishi Kapoor ... * A more recent Hindi TV series, "Sai Baba" was made by ...
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  • The onset of the Hindi-Urdu controversy of 1867 saw the emergence ... The success of the Hindi movement led Sir Syed to further advocate ...
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  • The Sheesh Mahal (Urdu: شيش محل Hindi: शीश महल) ... The Moti Masjid (Hindi: मोटी मस्जिद, Urdu: موٹی ...
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  • Allahabad (Hindi: इलाहाबाद; Urdu: الہ آباد Ilāhābād) is the English name of a city in the north Indian state of Uttar ...
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  • won an essay competition set by the Punjab Hindi Sahitya Sammelan. That grabbed ... The patriotic Urdu and Hindi songs, Sarfaroshi ki Tamanna ("the ...
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  • a largely Sanskrit vocabulary base while Hindi and others such as Punjabi ... * paternal uncle: kaka (S) corresponds to chacha (S/Hindi) ...
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  • Kabīr (also: Kabīra, Hindi: कबीर, Urdu:کبير‎, Gurmukhī: ਕਬੀਰ) (1398-1448)Vinay Dharwadker, "Kabir" in Religions ...
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  • the shift from Sanskrit to the local idiom (Hindi) as the language for classical ... sung in Brajbhasha, a medieval form of Hindi that was spoken in Mathura ...
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  • Delhi Fort also called the Red Fort or Lal Quila (Hindi) in Delhi, large sections of Agra Fort, the Jama Masjid (Grand Mosque), Delhi, the Wazir Khan ...
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  • Nagaland (Hindi: नागालैंड) is a state of India located in the far north-eastern part of the country. It borders the states of ...
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  • The sitar (Urdu: ستار, Hindi: सितार) is probably the best-known South Asian instrument in the West. A Hindustani stringed instrument ...
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  • In addition to Arabian jasmine, common names include Mogra (Hindi), Kampupot, Melati (Malay and Indonesian Language), Sampaguita (Tagalog), and ...
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  • |language = Hindi (language)|Hindi, English (language)|English ... Golden Age paradise and that a form of Hindi is the original language ...
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  • * The Religious family (Muslim and Hindi law) ==Notable personalities== [[Image:HSMaine.jpg|thumb|right|The young Henry Maine]] Sir Henry James ...
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  • Irfan Pathan (Hindi: इरफ़ान पठान, Urdu: عرفان پٹھان) Irfan_Pathan.ogg|pronunciation , born Irfan Khan (Hindi: इरफ़ान ...
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  • sub-plot in the movie.V. Shantaram made the Hindi movie Stree (1961) based ... Surendra Verma's Hindi play Athavan Sarga, published in 1976 ...
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  • cultures. The city is home to India's Hindi film and television industry ... and Gujarati-speakers, and as Bambai in Hindi, Urdu, and Persian. ...
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  • Paramahansa Yogananda (Pôromôhongsho Joganondo, Hindi: परमहंस योगानन्‍द; (January 5, 1893–March 7, 1952), was ...
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  • and Public Relations, Government of Sikkim. Hindi , Bhutia, Nepali, Lepcha ... people speak and understand English and Hindi in Sikkim. Other languages ...
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  • away, though the prefix "Himalayan" (Hindi: Himalaya ki Char Dham) often has been added to avoid confusion. ===Pilgrimage=== ...
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  • commonly spoken language; people also use Hindi, Bengali and English. ... also stressing the national language Hindi and the official state language ...
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  • and the third most spoken language in India after Hindi and Bengali. ... most widely-spoken language in the country after Hindi. ...
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  • (Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Persian, Hindi, Japanese, Norwegian, Thai, Vietnamese) in development. All translations are created and maintained ...
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  • Lage Raho Munna Bhai (Hindi: LageRahoMunnaBhaiPronounciation.ogg|2={{lang|hi|लगे रहो मुन्नाभाई}} , ləgeː ɾəhoː ...
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  • wielding Vishnu mounted upon such an animal. In Hindi, kal ki avatar means "tomorrow's avatar." Scholars have noted a striking ...
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  • Tongo, Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), English, JavaneseCIA, ... * Sarnami Hindi is the third largest language of the nation. A form ...
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  • not take anything from it".—Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi `Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 28. *It [the Euphrates] will uncover ...
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  • the name, Akash, meaning "sky" in Hindi language. ==Preparations== In its daily tropical weather outlook, the India Meteorological Department ...
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  • |langs=Indigenious languages, English, Hindi |rels=Donyi-Polo, Hinduism, Christianity (Baptist, other) |related=Nishi, Adi }} The Apatani or simply ...
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  • while people in cities commonly understand Hindi. Major places of tourist ... language used in Malwa, Malvi combines with Hindi as the most popular languages ...
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  • language spoken by native people, the Newars. Hindi and English are understood by most of the educated population of the city. The Kathmandu district ...
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  • *Akbar was portrayed in the 1960 Hindi film Moghul-e-Azam, in which ... *Akbar and Birbal were portrayed in the Hindi series “Akbar-Birbal” ...
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  • htm Shaji N Karun to make a Hindi film] Rediff, April 5, 2006. Retrieved March 8, 2021. File:Ravi Varma-Woman in thought.jpg|"Woman in thought ...
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  • extras from the then flourishing Coney Island Hindi community. [[Image:Ruthstdenis1.jpg|thumb|200px|Appearing barefoot was highly unconventional ...
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  • Gandhinagar (Gujarati: ગાંધીનગર, Hindi: गाँधीनगर) - the capital of the state of Gujarat in western India. One ...
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  • Language Program (SILP)] which offers courses in Hindi, Irish/Gaelic, Korean, Portuguese, Swahili, Swedish, and Yiddish. Vassar has a flexible curriculum ...
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  • language, Lepcha, Limbu, Tamang, Kirat, Hindi, English and Bengali. Soccer ... to those one can also find a few Nepali, Hindi, and Bengali language newspapers ...
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  • arati and gaulani. He also wrote some verse in Hindi. The present form of the language of Tukaram's poetry does not appear to be the original ...
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  • minorities include Buddhists and Jews. Hindi is the principal spoken and ... Private schools in Delhi—which employ either English or Hindi as ...
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  • Vajpayee was also a poet, writing in his native language, Hindi. His ... to the United Nations General Assembly in Hindi (in 1977), the "most ...
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  • Qutub Minar (Hindi : क़ुतुब मीनार Urdu: قطب منار), the tallest brick minaret in the world, constitutes an important ...
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  • English. Malayalam, Kannada & Hindi have more limited usage among the population. The Nilgiris is also home to the Toda language, spoken ...
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  • गणराज्य2(Fiji Hindi) |conventional_long_name = Republic ... |official_languages = EnglishBau FijianFiji Hindi[https://www.servat ...
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  • , Hindi: लद्दाख़, Hindi ləd̪.d̪ɑːx , Urdu: لدّاخ; ... that Ladakhis and Tibetans often speak Hindi or English when they need ...
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  • (Hindi, and name of Hindu Nakshatra) * sa-Latn|Bahu (Sanskrit) * fa-Latn|Bašn (Persian) (the Arm), * sux-Latn|Gula (Euphratean) * Ied Algeuze ...
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  • used in business circles. People understand Hindi and Tamil widely although ... Newspapers in other regional languages like Hindi, Kannada, Tamil ...
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  • the word "slave" is absent in Sanskritized Hindi, the word Dāsa is used for the same. Furthermore, in bhakti yoga a person can be in ...
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  • is used in everyday life by all Mauritians. Hindi is also widely spoken, though ... prominent in French, English, Creole, and Hindi languages. ...
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  • Ayodhya (Hindi: अयोध्या, Urdu: ایودھیا, IAST Ayodhyā), an ancient city of India, holds a cherished place in the faith of ...
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  • *Kartar Singh D. Gurmukhi te Hindi da Takra. 1948. *Katzner, Kenneth. The Languages of the World. Routledge; 3rd ed., 2002. ISBN 978-0415250047 ...
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  • freedom movement of India. Several movies in Hindi/Urdu have depicted his role during the rebellion of 1857, including Bahadur Shah Zafar (1986) directed ...
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  • * Volga Se Ganga - a novel by Hindi language writer Rahul Sankrityayan ===Cinema=== * Volga-Volga (1938) – a Soviet film comedy directed by ...
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  • The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य Bhārat Gaṇarājya ), commonly known as India, is a country in South Asia. ...
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  • #039;s A Bug's Life. It also inspired two Hindi films, Ramesh Sippy's Sholay and Rajkumar Santhoshi's China Gate, with similar plots ...
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  • Vernacular newspapers such as those in Hindi, Gujarati, Oriya, Urdu, Punjabi ... languages spoken in Kolkata are Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, English, Maithili ...
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  • -and his translation of the Vedas from Sanskrit to Hindi so that the common person may be able to read the Vedas. The Arya Samaj is rare in Hinduism in ...
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  • customs, manners and dress. While learning Hindi and Sanskrit, the Nehru children ... as expressed in the phrase "Hindi-Chini bhai bhai" (Indians ...
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  • Other languages to be found in South America include: Hindi and Indonesian in Suriname; Italian in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela and ...
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  • Because Bangla is closely related to Hindi, many Bangladeshis watch Hindi films, produced in what was once a thriving, Calcutta-centered Bengali ...
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  • Gandhi went to Madras when the riots over Hindi becoming the national language broke out in non-Hindi speaking states of the south. She spoke ...
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  • , Hindi: अहमदाबाद Ahmadābād), the largest city in ... native Gujaratis. Residents commonly speak Hindi and English, especially in ...
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  • (Hindi: जैसालमेर), nicknamed "The Golden City," is a town in the state of Rajasthan in north India. The town stands ...
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  • Srāvastī or Sāvatthī (Hindi: श्रावस्ती), one of the six largest cities in India during Gautama Buddha's lifetime, ...
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  • Tinka Tinka Sukh—a Hindi-language radio program that results in environmental and health improvements in India. [http://www.soulcity.org.za/ ...
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  • are used to write Tigrinya, Amharic, Hindi, and Thai. The Canadian Aboriginal ... is theoretical and not actually used. The Hindi alphabet must represent both ...
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  • known as "Hortelã." In the Hindi and Urdu languages it is called Pudeena. As an English colloquial term, "mint" stands for ...
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  • Pikoo (Pikoo's Day) and hour long Hindi film Sadgati this was the ... supervision translators then interpreted in Hindi or Urdu. Ray's own eye ...
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  • The word "Thug" derives from the Hindi term thag (thief), which itself comes from Sanskrit sthagati (to conceal). The term "thug ...
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  • rights, and adoption, which guide Hindi civil life, is explained according to Mimamsa maxims. Dasgupta, Surendranath. The auhority of the Veda ...
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  • sign language; German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Portuguese, Tamil, Telegu and Urdu; and Arabic, Hebrew, Sanskrit and "other languages used ...
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  • | regional_languages = Guyanese Creole, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish ... Creole, Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), and Urdu. ...
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  • Regarded as the birth place of Mars (mangala in Hindi), according to the Matsya Purana, the temple has a clear view of the planet and hence has proven ...
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  • Indo-European: English, Portuguese, Spanish, Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi ... | Nicobarese, Bengali, English, Hindi, Malayalam, Punjabi, Tamil, ...
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  • The word dada means grandfather in hindi/urdu. ==See also== * Expressionism is seen as having its beginnings in Dada. * Futurism positivistic ...
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  • of 1965 against the imposition of Hindi as the national language ... | title = Hindi against India | work = The Hindu | date = January 16, 2005 ...
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  • In fact, the Indian Cobra is still called nāg in Hindi and other languages of India today. Thus, the use of the term nāga is often ambiguous, as the ...
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  • The Hindi movie Black (2005) released in 2005 was largely based on Keller's story, from her childhood to her graduation. A documentary Shining ...
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  • language of Dubai, Persian, Malayalam, English, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, and Tagalog are widely spoken. Article 7 of the UAE's Provisional Constitution ...
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  • Pakistan it is also known as gher (گھر). In Hindi, it is called ghar (घर). The original word for nomad came from a word for felt, making them the ...
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  • Roy published journals in English, Hindi, Persian and Bengali. His most popular journal was the Samvad Kaumudi. It covered topics like freedom ...
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  • are the works of the sixteenth century Hindi poet Tulsidas and the Tamil ... in 1576, an epic Awadhi (a dialect of Hindi) version with a slant more ...
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  • Hijra, a Hindi term traditionally translated into English as "eunuch," actually refers to what modern Westerners would call male-to ...
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  • India to successfully resist the imposition of Hindi upon them. Ibid. ====Later career==== Returning to Britain in 1838, he became MP for Edinburgh ...
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  • |regional_languages = Spanish, Caribbean Hindustani, Hindi, ... but Bhojpuri, locally known as "Hindi," is also spoken by ...
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  • * LOC: Kargil (2003), a Hindi movie depicting most of the incidents ... * Lakshya (2004), a Hindi movie portraying a fictionalized account ...
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  • Almond is called Lawz in Arabic, Baadaam in Persian, Urdu and Hindi. ==Production== [[Image:2005almond.PNG|thumb|right|400px|Almond output in 2005]] ...
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  • * 1st. Bengal Native Infantry (BNI), also known as the Lal Paltan (Hindi for Red Platoon) * 9th Battery, 12th Regiment, Royal Artillery ...
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  • * The word "punch" comes from the Hindi word for five. Being true to the designation of punch, the drink Five Alive is named for its ...
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  • * Griddle (also called Tawa in Hindi) * Karahi * Kettle * Pan * Pressure cooker * Roasting pan * Roasting rack * Saucepan * Saucier ...
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  • by the indigenous Sunnis. Persian, Urdu/Hindi, English and Malayalam are ... Arabic, although there are channels in English and Hindi. ...
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  • services in Sinhalese, Tamil, English and Hindi. Since the 1980s, a large number of private radio stations have gained commercial popularity ...
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  • The people in the Jammu area speak Hindi, Punjabi, and Dogri (which ... that Ladakhis and Tibetans often speak Hindi or English when they need ...
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  • dialects, Creole, Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), and Urdu. Religions, according to the 2002 census, include Hindu 28.4 percent, Pentecostal ...
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  • In Hinduism, the river Ganga (Sanskrit and Hindi गंगा Gaṅgā) or Ganges River (as called by westerners) is considered to be sacred ...
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  • the language primarily. Most foreigners speak Hindi, Urdu, Filipino or Bengali. Some Kuwaitis are bilingual. Speakers of Hindi were expected to outnumber ...
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  • #039;an. The Hindustani language has two standards, Hindi and Urdu. In the United States, the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar designated ...
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  • majority of the Indo-Réunionnaise people, people of Hindi, Urdu, Bhojpuri and other origins form the remainder of the population. ...
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  • |language = Arabic, Persian, English,, Hindi, Urdu |GDP_PPP_year = 2010 ... Persian, Balochi, French, Vietnamese, Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, and Filipino ...
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  • is English, but as a compulsory subject, Hindi and/or the state's official language is also taught.Anuradha De and Jean Dreze, Public Report ...
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  • it is commonly used to refer to stupidity. The Hindi word for owl, ulloo is used to refer to a foolish person. The demoness Lilith is thought ...
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  • *A 1941 Hindi movie Sikandar directed by Sohrab Modi depicts Alexander ... *A 1965 Hindi movie Sikandar-E-Azam directed by Kedar Kapoor starring ...
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  • and Malayalam, Alay in Marathi, and Adrak in Hindi and Urdu. Fresh ginger is one of the main spices used for making pulse and lentil curries and ...
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  • and Kannada films, he has scored music for Hindi (or Bollywood) film productions such as Sadma (1983), Lajja (2001) and Cheeni Kum (2007). He ...
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  • into the modern Indo-Aryan languages (Hindi, Nepali, Assamese, Marathi ... form. Of modern day Indian languages, while Hindi and Urdu tend to be more ...
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  • the first Indian talking feature, the Hindi-Urdu Alam Ara, and produced ... based Madan Pictures had released both the Hindi Shirin Farhad and the Bengali ...
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  • speak 13 languages including Urdu, Marathi, Kannada, Hindi, Telugu and English with a fluency akin to a native speaker. [http://www.hindu.com/2006/12/2 ...
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  • to curry powder are called Garam masala in Hindi, Nepali and probably other North Indian languages. Most dishes involving lentils or dried beans ...
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  • sweets are known as mithai (meetha means sweet in Hindi), such as gulab jamun, jalebi, peda, petha, rewdi, gajak, bal mithai, singori, kulfi, falooda ...
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  • of the world Arabic, English, Turkish, Persian, Hindi, French, German, Swahili, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, and are now increasingly becoming available ...
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  • , also called Pathans (Urdu: پٹھان, Hindi: पठान ... and often Afghans in general) in the Hindi-Urdu variant Pathan rather ...
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  • * Hindi: shunya * Hungarian: nulla * Italian: cifra, digit, numeral, cypher; zero, zero * Kannada: sonne * Norwegian: siffer, digit, numeral, ...
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  • and Haitian Kreyol, as well as French, Yiddish, Hindi, Bengali, Polish, Italian, and Arabic. The Central Library is a landmarked building facing ...
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  • * Anuradha, (1960 - soundtrack composer, Hindi) * Alice in Wonderland (1966, directed by Jonathan Miller) - composer of original score ...
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  • quot; [Tirangā – तिरंगा (in Hindi)] almost always refers to the Indian national flag. The flag displays a horizontal tricolour ...
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  • and the incorporation of movie stories. Yakshagana was performed in Hindi for the first time in 2005. ==Performance== [[Image:Yakshagana Progress1 ...
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  • feather fans among their mummies. In India, the Hindi term for a fan is pankha (a derivative of "a feather" or "a bird's wing"). ...
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  • in the Bikaner State Railway. She spoke Hindi as her second language in those years.[https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27986272 Obituary: ...
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  • * White, C. "Sufism in Medieval Hindi literature." History of Religions, 5 (1965), 114-132. ==External links== ===Tariqa websites and ...
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  • Masālā is a word in Hindi (and other Indian languages) meaning "spice mixture." It is commonly used when referring to curries or ...
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  • * Shirin Farhad (1931), Indian Hindi-language feature film based on ... *Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi (2012), Indian Hindi-language romantic ...
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  • music Qawwali (Urdu: قوٌالی, Hindi: कव्वाली) is the devotional music of the Chishti Sufis of the Indian subcontinent. Qawwali ...
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  • quot; which means the "Big One." In Hindi, Thursday is referred to as Guruvaar (day of Jupiter). In the English language Thursday is rendered ...
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  • " meaning the bow (Sanskrit & Hindi: dhanush is bow of Indra, the deity of lightning, thunder and rain. In Norse Mythology, a rainbow ...
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  • meaning "variegated body," via the Hindi चीता cītā (AHD 2006). ==Distribution and habitat== [[Image:Serengeti Cheetah.jpg ...
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  • , the second official language of Andhra Pradesh, Hindi (2.65 percent). The minority language speakers, constituting less than 1 percent, include ...
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  • building. Jabbar Patel directed the Hindi-language movie Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkarabout the life of Ambedkar, released in 2000, starring the South ...
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  • Uttar Pradesh, a village near Ayodhya, in a Hindi speaking region in India. Born in the Brahmin or priest caste of Sarvariya, Swaminarayan was ...
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  • to the Khmer. Overseas Indians (mainly Tamil, Hindi, and Bengali speakers), like the Chinese, do not have citizenship rights. The Anglo-Burmese ...
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  • life. A large imperial library included books in Hindi, Persian, Greek, Kashmiri, English, and Arabic, such as the Shahnameh, Bhagavata Purana and ...
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  • |regional_languages = Spanish, Caribbean Hindustani, Hindi, Jamaican Patois, Portuguese, Chinese, Levantine Arabic[http://www.ethnologue ...
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  • speak Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Hindi. Numerous languages flourish among indigenous groups, especially in Sarawak and Sabah. A small number ...
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  • early life in India, and was familiar with the Hindi language. His two Jungle Books contain stories written after the manner of traditional Indian ...
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  • Indian Railways (Hindi भारतीय रेल), abbreviated as IR, refers to a Department of the Government of India, under the Ministry ...
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  • in his fight against the British Raj. Spoken in Hindi, Bose's words are highly evocative. The troops of the INA were under the aegis of a ...
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  • as many other languages like Korean and Hindi do. The unaspirated ... French, German, Russian, and Hindustani (Hindi/Urdu). The Indo-European ...
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  • a language related to both Punjabi and Hindi and used extensively across medieval northern India by proponents of popular devotional religion ...
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  • its own. In 1965, unrest broke out in Madras when Hindi took effect as India's national language. ===Punjab and northeastern India=== ...
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  • other languages spoken include English, Urdu and Hindi, Malalayam, and Tagalog. While many Qataris speak more than one language, it is rare for immigrants ...
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  • Pattu in southern parts of India and Resham in Hindi/Urdu, has a long history in India. Recent archaeological discoveries in Harappa and Chanhu-daro ...
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  • and the bull Nandi look, folio from a Hindi manuscript by the saint Narayan, circa 1740]] *Third Eye: Shiva is often depicted with a third eye ...
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  • *Maqbool, Vishal Bhardwaj's critically acclaimed 2003 Hindi movie adaptation set in the Mumbai underworld. It starred Irfan Khan and Tabu ...
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  • A partial Hindi translation by Govind Chandra Pande was published in 2008 (by Lokbharti Booksellers and Distributors, Allahabad, covering books 3-5). ...
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  • training as a soldier. He had started studying Hindi and Sanskrit while at Patna. In Anandpur, he started studying Punjabi under Sahib Chand, and Persian ...
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  • Spanish, Portuguese, Tamil, Punjabi, Tagalog, Hindi, and Urdu.[http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/themes/RetrieveProductTable ...
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  • Western world but not within the ethnic Gypsy, nor Hindi musics. *12-beat rhythms usually rendered in amalgams of 6/8 + 3/4 and sometimes measures ...
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  • and other languages including Hindi and Portuguese. Language has been a controversial issue in Goa, then pro-Konkani and pro-Marathi camps contending ...
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  • edited by Arthur B. Dobrin, (Mumbai: Hindi Granth Karyalaya, 2004, ISBN ... Ethics: A Sourcebook.'’ Mumbai: Hindi Granth Karyalaya, 2004. ISBN ...
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  • site narrating (in Kannada (top), English and Hindi (bottom) ) the last moments of Tippu.]] ==Rocket Artillery in War== A military tactic developed ...
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  • Sections"). It is not directly derived from the Hindi-Arabic numeral "0". Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China, Volume ...
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  • state include Urdu, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Tulu, Hindi, Konkani, Malayalam, and Kodava Takk. ==Government and administration== Government of ...
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  • British Raj (rāj, lit. "rule" in Hindi) or British India, officially the British Indian Empire, and internationally and contemporaneously ...
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  • Derived from Sanskrit, Nepali is related to the Indian language Hindi and written in Devanagari script. It is the official language and serves ...
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  • his work as a police officer) and Kipling (who spoke Hindi, having learned it as a child), Burgess had excellent spoken and written Malay. This linguistic ...
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  • two British companies of the 20th Hindi Division and the French 5th Colonial Infantry Regiment, with British General Sir Douglas Gracey as supreme ...
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  • periodically enter the state called musth (Hindi for "madness"), sometimes spelled "must" in English. ===In popular culture=== ...
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  • speak many other languages, including Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Cantonese, Turkish and Polish. The United Kingdom has the largest number ...
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  • spoken within ethnic minority communities include Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Punjabi, Urdu, Polish, Greek, Turkish, and Cantonese, as well as Romany. ...
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