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  - 2389 results

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Outline of Hindi Grammar, with Exercises
Book by R. S. Mcgregor; Oxford University Press, 1995
Outline of Hindi Grammar -ii- Outline of Hindi Grammar with exercises Third Edition Revised and Enlarged...years since publication of the first edition of Outline of Hindi Grammar . I am pleased to find that the book is still in demand...
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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
...dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry in Bombay (renamed...cultural, social and political significance of Hindi cinema, outlining the history and structure...Main themes and characteristics of Hindi cinema Significant films, directors...
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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
...Intellectual life. 3. Women, East Indian Guyana Intellectual life. 4. Women authors, Hindi Trinidad and Tobago Criticism and interpretation. 5. Women authors, Hindi Guyana Criticism and interpretation. 6. Women, East Indian Trinidad and Tobago...
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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
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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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journal articles on: Hindi  - 542 results

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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...STAHLBERG, PER. Lucknow Daily: how a Hindi newspaper constructs society. x, 218 pp...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...of the most virtuosic original poetic works in Hindi (3) from the Dvivedi era (4) of Hindi literature, the period from roughly 1900 to the...
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Traditional Content and Narrative Structure in the Hindi Commercial Cinema
Journal article by Gregory D. Booth; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 54, 1995
Subjects: Folk literature--Appreciation, Motion pictures and literature--Appreciation, Motion pictures, Indian--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...content and narrative structure in the Hindi commercial cinema. by Gregory D...national output is represented by films in Hindi, the most widely understood language on...style may be said to exist, the commercial Hindi cinema defines that style. Hindi film...
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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...for fiction in 1972-73. Since the 1960s, Hindi readers have regarded Narayan as one of...
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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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Assimilation: The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of
Magazine article by Jo Mcgowan; Commonweal, Vol. 130, January 17, 2003
Subjects: Acculturation, Assimilation (Sociology)--Personal narratives, Language acquisition--Personal narratives
...McGowan The first time I dreamt in Hindi--nearly twenty years ago--I was both pleased...as easily as everyone else did. Learning Hindi has been one of the most fascinating experiences...toward a foreigner who attempts to speak in Hindi they are positively fawning. My every effort...
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Working with Muslim Youths: Understanding the Values and Beliefs of Islamic Discourse
Magazine article by David R. Hodge; Children & Schools, Vol. 24, January 2002
...States may exceed 5 percent (Carter El Hindi, 1999). The rapidly expanding Muslim population...difficulties for Muslim youths. (Carter El Hindi, 1999). When halal meats are not available...secular discourse predominates (Carter El Hindi, 1999; Shaikh, 1995). Compliance with the...
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India's Socioeconomic Makeover
Magazine article by Richard Breyer; World and I, Vol. 13, August 1998
Subjects: Economic policy--India, India--Economic aspects
...shows I Dream of Jeannie. Jeannie speaks Hindi, out of sync. This is the new, post-1992...television; and Hollywood stars dubbed in Hindi. In the old India, there was no cable...films, musical shows, sitcoms, and soaps in Hindi, Tamil, and other "local" languages...
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Bombay Writing: Are You Experienced?
Magazine article by Mukund Belliappa; The Antioch Review, Vol. 66, Spring 2008
Subjects: Bombay, India, Indian literature--Criticism and interpretation, Indian literature--Political aspects, Indian literature--Religious aspects, Indian literature--Social aspects
...rich street life) should be familiar to Hindi cinema fans from the seventies and eighties...where short (and unpredictable) spurts of Hindi bring forth the unintended image of the author laboring over Hindi verbs in the dim light of his slum tenement...
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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 learning...Indian sub-continent. But the Welsh and Hindi languages share more than surface similarities...
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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-Guard...especially true of genres ... like merengue, salsa and Hindi." Hindi? Are you kidding me? Is there really a hue and cry for...
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Mirror Woman: BOMBAY DREAMS; Heidi Mumford Is in the Finals of a Talent Search Where the Prize Is a Role in a Hindi Blockbuster. but Can a White Girl from Suffolk Really Have What It Takes to Be a Bollywood Star?
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), June 1, 2004
...Talent Search Where the Prize Is a Role in a Hindi Blockbuster. but Can a White Girl from...stage and sways in time to the blaring Hindi music. While her fellow drama students...If she wins, she will get to appear in a Hindi movie. And that could be her ticket to...
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Gough Heading for El Hindi Showdown
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), May 24, 2006
Gough Heading for El Hindi Showdown. Wales are tipped to take on Egypt in Sundays Swallow...at number 19 in the world, is seeded to play Egyptian Wael El Hindi in the final. El Hindi is ranked 20 in the world and will pose a major test for Gough...
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Hindi Thriller Is the New 'In' Thing in Philippine TV
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, October 18, 2005
Subjects: Television broadcasting industry
Hindi Thriller Is the New In Thing in Philippine TV. Weve seen...film? Not yet? Well, you might be surprised to find out that Hindi thriller is as interesting (or scary) as the other Asian...an article Ive read in Asia Times online, Ive learned that Hindi film industry is turning to a new genre of films - horror...
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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 group of the...Indo-European family of languages. The official language of India, Hindi is the written or literary variant of Hindustani that...Indic origin. There are two main dialectal groups of the Hindi language: Western Hindi and Eastern Hindi. The former has...
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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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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 espouses...foreign investment. At first largely a northern party popular in Hindi-speaking areas among urban middle-class traders, by 1989 the...
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Ghats
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GHATS gots Hindi,=steps, two mountain ranges of S India, paralleling the coasts of the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal and forming two sides of...
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Kali
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KALI ka le Hindi,=the Black One, important goddess in popular Hinduism and Tantra . Known also as Durga the Inaccessible and as Chandi the Fierce...
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