HINDI

hĭnˈdē, language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. The official language of India, Hindi is the written or literary variant of Hindustani that is used by Hindus. It is written in the Devanagari alphabet employed for Sanskrit and has a vocabulary of Indic origin. There are two main dialectal groups of the Hindi language: Western Hindi and Eastern Hindi. The former has four principal dialects. The latter is the medium of an extensive and outstanding literature. Some 300 million people speak Hindi as their primary language; most of them live in India.

See E. Bender, Hindi Grammar and Reader (1967); V. R. Jagannathan, Handbook of Modern Hindi Usage (1981); M. C. Shapiro, A Primer of Modern Standard Hindi (1989).

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books on: Hindi  - 2458 results

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Outline of Hindi Grammar, with Exercises
Book by R. S. McGregor; Oxford University Press, 1995
...Reading Balbir, N., "La Modernisation du Hindi", in I. Fodor and C. Hagege eds...Transplanted: The Development of Overseas Hindi Wiesbaden, 1988 . Chatterji, S. K., Indo-Aryan and Hindi 2nd edn., Calcutta, 1960 . Gaeffke...
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Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema
Book by Tejaswini Ganti; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Motion Picture Actors And Actresses--India, Motion Picture Industry--India--Bombay, Motion Pictures--India--History And Criticism
...of it. 11 An associated dilemma was which type of Hindi? There was no one Hindi, as it varied according to region. Filmmakers finally settled on a type of spoken Hindi known as Hindustani - a mixture of Hindi and Urdu...
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Diasporic (Dis)Locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the Kala Pani
Book by Brinda Mehta; University Press of the West Indies, 2004
Subjects: Caribbean Literature (English)--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Feminism And Literature--Caribbean Area, Women And Literature--Caribbean Area, Women Authors, Caribbean, Women Authors, Hindi--Guyana, Women Authors, Hindi--Trinidad And Tobago, Women, East Indian--Guyana--Intellectual Life, Women, East Indian--Guyana--Social Life And Customs, Women, East Indian--Trinidad And Tobago--Intellectual Life, Women, East Indian--Trinidad And Tobago--Social Life And Customs
...mixture of informal or working-class Hindi. 32 The creation of an Indianized Creole...represented by the ancestral language Hindi and its hybridized version of creolese : Nani spoke in creolese but she used Hindi for her prayers, and when the creolese...
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Against History, against State: Counterperspectives from the Margins
Book by Shail Mayaram; Columbia University Press, 2003
Subjects: Folk Literature, Hindi--India--History And Criticism, Meo (Indic People)--History
...distinctive group that are more different from Hindi than, for example, Punjabi. Under no circum...they be classified as dialects of western Hindi. Rajasthan and Rajasthani: Switching over from Hindi, in Pers?ectives on Etlmicity, ed. Regina...
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The Problem Plays of Shakespeare: A Study of Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra
Book by Ernest Schanzer; Schocken Books, 1965
Subjects: Fiction, Shakespeare, William--1564-1616--Antony And Cleopatra, Shakespeare, William--1564-1616--Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, William--1564-1616--Measure For Measure--Hindi
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A Hindi Reference Grammar
Journal article by Michael C. Shapiro; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, 2002
Subjects: A Hindi Reference Grammar (Book)
A Hindi Reference Grammar by Michael C. Shapiro A Hindi Reference Grammar. By STELLA SANDHAL. Louvain: PEETERS...review is intended to be a "reference grammar of the Modern Hindi language written and spoken by educated speakers and taught...
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Lucknow Daily: How a Hindi Newspaper Constructs Society
Journal article by Francesca Orsini; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 11, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Lucknow Daily: How a Hindi Newspaper Constructs Society (Book)--Book reviews
Lucknow Daily: How a Hindi Newspaper Constructs Society. by Francesca...STAHLBERG, PER. Lucknow Daily: how a Hindi newspaper constructs society. x, 218...changed earlier perceptions about the Hindi press as being second-rate, excessively...
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The Language of Hariaudh's Priyapravas: Notes toward an Archaeology of Modern Standard Hindi
Journal article by Valerie Ritter; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004
Subjects: Gods, Hindu--Portrayals, Hindu gods--Portrayals, Hindu literature--Criticism and interpretation, Priyapravas (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Upadhyay, Ayodhyasimh--Criticism and interpretation, Upadhyay, Ayodhyasimh--Works
...Notes toward an Archaeology of Modern Standard Hindi. by Valerie Ritter Priyapravas The Absence...of the most virtuosic original poetic works in Hindi (3) from the Dvivedi era (4) of Hindi literature, the period from roughly 1900 to...
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Zee TV and the Creation of Hindi Media Communities in Singapore
Journal article by Arunajeet Kaur, Faizal Yahya; SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 25, 2010
Subjects: Cable television--Demographic aspects, Cable television--Social aspects, Hindu nationalism--Forecasts and trends, Hindu nationalism--International aspects, Singapore--Demographic aspects, Singapore--Social aspects
Zee TV and the Creation of Hindi Media Communities in Singapore. by Arunajeet...Broadcasting of Indian Programmes and Hindi Speaking Indian Communities Indians form...not necessarily Tamils and are mostly Hindi speaking since Hindi is the principal...
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Four Hindi Poets
Journal article by Shrikant Verma; World Literature Today, Vol. 68, 1994
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
Four Hindi Poets In the early 1950s, shortly after...the nai kavita (new poetry) movement in Hindi brought together the prayogvad (modernist...fiction in 1972-73. Since the 1960s, Hindi readers have regarded Narayan as one of...
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magazine articles on: Hindi  - 471 results

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Hindi Duty Belt Safety System
Magazine article by Dave Grossi; Law & Order, Vol. 53, October 2005
Subjects: Personal protective equipment, Police training, Video recordings
Hindi Duty Belt Safety System by Dave Grossi Initially...SAFETY System DVD, I became a believer. The Hindi Duty Belt SAFETY System stands for Safer...Las Vegas Metro, NV Police Officer Robert Hindi has come up with is a scientifically researched...
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Hindi Baton Cap
Magazine article by Tony Lesce; Law & Order, Vol. 48, August 2000
Hindi Baton Cap by Tony Lesce Maintaining the grip on a baton has...the Monadnock PR-24, and now Monadnock has brought out the Hindi Baton Cap, developed by Officer Bob Hindi of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and manufactured...
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Indian Summer: Voted "Greatest Star of the Millennium" in 1999, Amitabh Bachchan Has Finally Been Honoured by the British Film Industry. He Talks to Alice O'Keeffe about Hindi Cinema's Struggle for Recognition and Why "Bollywood" Is a Dirty Word
Magazine article by Amitabh Bachchan; New Statesman, Vol. 136, July 2, 2007
Subjects: Bachchan, Amitabh--Interviews, Motion picture actors and actresses--Interviews, Movie actors--Interviews
...Industry. He Talks to Alice OKeeffe about Hindi Cinemas Struggle for Recognition and Why...be dismissed with an imperious wave. My Hindi film knowledge not being what it should...believed we deserve." The way in which Hindi films have been received by the outside...
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The Hindi New Wave
Magazine article by Ben Rekh; Filmmaker, Vol. 18, Spring 2010
The Hindi New Wave by Ben Rekh Namaste! Welcome to...films per year, roughly a third of which are Hindi-speaking or "Bollywood" films. A word...player on the global stage. This is the Hindi New Wave. "This new generation is making...
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When Enough Is Enough: Life in the Teeming City Is Blighted by Fear and Anxiety. Even the Latest Hindi Blockbusters Are Playing to Near-Empty Cinemas
Magazine article by Soumya Bhattacharya; New Statesman, Vol. 137, December 15, 2008
Subjects: Motion picture theaters, Movie theaters
...Teeming City Is Blighted by Fear and Anxiety. Even the Latest Hindi Blockbusters Are Playing to Near-Empty Cinemas. by Soumya...bookings have dropped for travel within India: how blockbuster Hindi movies are playing to nearly empty theatres on their openings...
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newspaper articles on: Hindi  - 9965 results

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Toni Gonzaga on Rift with Mariel Rodriguez: 'Hindi Ako Okay.'
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 20, 2010
...Gonzaga on Rift with Mariel Rodriguez: Hindi Ako Okay.. MANILA, Philippines - When...response to that was, "Wala akong problema, hindi tungkol sa pelikula ito." Even Mariel...about the issue. "Masakit para sa akin na hindi matutuloy yung pelikula niya. Masakit...
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Discovering Hidden Hindi in Cymru
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), April 6, 2005
Discovering Hidden Hindi in Cymru. A recent BBC Radio Wales programme examined the link between Welsh and Hindi. But it has proved to be a continuing...Indian sub-continent. But the Welsh and Hindi languages share more than surface similarities...
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Coco Martin on 'Walk-Out' Rumors: 'Hindi Ko Gagawin 'Yun'
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 25, 2011
Coco Martin on Walk-Out Rumors: Hindi Ko Gagawin Yun. MANILA, Philippines...series who walked out of the shows set."Hindi ko naman gagawin yun (walkout). Ano...bad weather noon at malakas ang ulan, hindi na kami makapag-set-up dahil dun...
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Finally, Satellite Radio Satisfies All Those Hindi Fans
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), September 25, 2005
Subjects: Radio broadcasting, Satellite communications services industry
Finally, Satellite Radio Satisfies All Those Hindi Fans. Byline: WRITE ON By Dan Holden For The Register...especially true of genres ... like merengue, salsa and Hindi." Hindi? Are you kidding me? Is there really a hue and cry...
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Toni Gonzaga on 'No Makeup, No Interview' Issue: 'Hindi Naman Ako Nag-Inarte'
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, May 10, 2011
Subjects: Cosmetics
...Gonzaga on No Makeup, No Interview Issue: Hindi Naman Ako Nag-Inarte. MANILA, Philippines...ako. Galing kaming Lingayen. Sabi ko hindi naman siguro maganda kung babati ako kay...Charlene dahil ganoon ang itsura ko. Pero hindi naman dahil wala akong make-up," Toni...
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encyclopedia articles on: Hindi  - 28 results

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Hindi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HINDI hin de, language belonging to the Indic...languages. The official language of India, Hindi is the written or literary variant of Hindustani...There are two main dialectal groups of the Hindi language: Western Hindi and Eastern Hindi...
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Hindustani
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...authorities define Hindustani as the spoken form of Hindi and Urdu . Others prefer to call Hindi and Urdu written varieties of Hindustani. The...include some vernacular dialects of northern India. Hindi is the variety of Hindustani used by Hindus...
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Indo-Iranian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and Sindhi; the central Indic languages Hindi and Urdu ; the East Indic tongues Assamese...northern or Pahari dialects or languages. Hindi, now the national language of India...them in central India. Very similar to Hindi (but recorded in a form of the Arabic...
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India
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...different languages spoken throughout the country. Although Hindi (spoken in the north) and English (the language of politics...recognizes 15 regional languages (Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi...
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Bharatiya Janata Party
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY bar te jan t Hindi,=Indian Peoples party (BJP), Indian political party that...foreign investment. At first largely a northern party popular in Hindi-speaking areas among urban middle-class traders, by 1989...
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