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  2. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    Hindi literature (Hindi: हिंदी साहित्य, romanized: hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Central Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Hindi, some of which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa such as Awadhi and Marwari.

  3. List of Indian historical novels - Wikipedia

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    List of novels [1] [2]; Title Author Year Language Notes Anguriyo Binimoy: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay: 1862 Bengali: First known historical novel of India. Doorgeshnondini

  4. Shangri-La - Wikipedia

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    Shangri-La is a fictional place in Tibet's Kunlun Mountains, [1] described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by English author James Hilton.Hilton portrays Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. [1]

  5. Bharatendu Harishchandra - Wikipedia

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    Although Urdu has been used as the lingua franca across North India since the 18th Century, Harishchandra espoused the cause of reviving Hindi as part of his cultural and nationalist activities. He started a campaign to promote the use of Swadeshi articles with demands for replacement of Urdu by Hindi in courts and for a ban on cattle slaughter ...

  6. Volga Se Ganga - Wikipedia

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    This book is now considered a classic in history of Indian literature. [ 2 ] It has been translated into many languages, including Nepali , Assamese , Marathi , Bengali , English, Kannada , Tamil , Malayalam , Telugu , Punjabi , where it ran into several editions, besides foreign languages, such as Russian, Czech, Polish, Chinese, and many more ...

  7. Mountain formation - Wikipedia

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    Mountain formation occurs due to a variety of geological processes associated with large-scale movements of the Earth's crust (tectonic plates). [1] Folding , faulting , volcanic activity , igneous intrusion and metamorphism can all be parts of the orogenic process of mountain building. [ 2 ]

  8. Chitralekha (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Chitralekha is a slim volume with a narrative that is woven around a love story, and reflects on various aspects of human life. The story commences with a dialogue between the revered hermit Ratnakar (रत्नाकर) and his disciples, Shwetaank (श्वेतांक) and Vishaldev (विशालदेव), discussing the sins of humanity.

  9. Mahabharata - Wikipedia

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    Svargarohana Parva (The Book of the Ascent to Heaven) 98 Yudhishthira's final test and the return of the Pandavas to the spiritual world . khila: Harivamsa Parva (The Book of the Genealogy of Hari) 99–100 This is an addendum to the 18 books, and covers those parts of the life of Krishna which is not covered in the 18 parvas of the Mahabharata.