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  2. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Karmabhoomi - Wikipedia

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    Karmabhoomi at Hindi Wikisource. Karmabhoomi ( The Land Where One Works) is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand . The novel is set in the Uttar Pradesh of the 1930s. [ 1] By the beginning of the 20th century, Islam and Hinduism had coexisted in India for over a thousand years. Barring the occasional outbursts of violence, the two religious ...

  4. Chitralekha (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Chitralekha. Chitralekha is a 1934 Hindi novel by the Indian writer Bhagwati Charan Verma about the philosophy of life, love, sin and virtue. It is said to be modelled on Anatole France 's 1890 novel Thaïs but set in India. [ 1] However, the author noted in the book's in preface:

  5. Aśvaghoṣa - Wikipedia

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    He was born in Saketa, today known as Ayodhya. [ 1][ 2][ 3] He is believed to have been the first Sanskrit dramatist, and is considered the greatest Indian poet prior to Kālidāsa. It seems probable that he was the contemporary and spiritual adviser of Kanishka in the first century of our era. [ 4] He was the most famous in a group of Buddhist ...

  6. Godaan - Wikipedia

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    Godaan ( Hindi: गोदान, gōdān, lit. 'Cow donation') is a famous Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand. It was first published in 1936 and is considered one of the greatest Hindi novels of modern Indian literature. Themed around the socio-economic deprivation as well as the exploitation of the village poor, the novel was the last complete ...

  7. Literature - Wikipedia

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    In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. [ 3][ 4] Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment. It can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role.

  8. Tomb of Sand - Wikipedia

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    Tomb of Sand (originally titled Ret Samadhi, Hindi: रेत समाधि) [2] is a 2018 Hindi -language novel by Indian author Geetanjali Shree. It was translated into English by U.S. translator Daisy Rockwell. [3] In 2022, the book became the first novel translated from an Indian language to win the International Booker Prize.

  9. Madhushala - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 81-216-0125-8. Followed by. Madhubala. Madhushala ( Hindi: मधुशाला) ( The Tavern/The House of Wine) is a book of 135 "quatrains": verses of four lines ( Ruba'i) by Hindi poet and writer Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907–2003). The highly metaphorical work is still celebrated for its deeply Vedantic and Sufi incantations and ...