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  2. Jal tarang - Wikipedia

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    The earliest mention of the jal tarang is found in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra, as playing on musical glasses filled with water. [1] Jal tarang was also mentioned in the medieval Sangeet Parijaat text, which categorized the instrument under Ghan-Vadya (idiophonic instruments in which sound is produced by striking a surface, also called concussion idiophones.)

  3. NCERT textbook controversies - Wikipedia

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    The poem Sabse Khatarnak by the Hindi poet Pash was included in the NCERT textbook for 11th standard Hindi students in 2006. In 2017, the BJP government affiliated RSS tried to remove it but failed. [28] [29] The NCERT made two controversial changes to the class XII political science textbook ‘Politics in India Since Independence’ in 2017.

  4. Hindustani phonology - Wikipedia

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    While [z] is a foreign sound, it is also natively found as an allophone of /s/ beside voiced consonants. The other three Persian loans, /q, x, ɣ/, are still considered to fall under the domain of Urdu, and are also used by some Hindi speakers; however, other Hindi speakers may assimilate these sounds to /k, kʰ, g/ respectively.

  5. Sound - Wikipedia

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    In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. In human physiology and psychology, sound is the reception of such waves and their perception by the brain. [1]

  6. Central Institute of Educational Technology - Wikipedia

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    The institute is located at NIE Campus, NCERT in New Delhi, the capital of India. The origin of the institute was effected by merging two departments of NCERT, Center for Educational Technology and Department of Teaching Aids, with an aim to make the new age technologies in mass media available at the school level.

  7. Hindustani orthography - Wikipedia

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    As a result of schwa syncope, the correct Hindi pronunciation of many words differs from that expected from a literal rendering of Devanagari. For instance, राम is Rām (incorrect: Rāma ), रचना is Rachnā (incorrect: Rachanā ), वेद is Véd (incorrect: Véda ) and नमकीन is Namkeen (incorrect Namakeena ).

  8. Todi (raga) - Wikipedia

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    The Musical Mode: Ragini Todi.Ascribed to a Master of the Second Generation after Nainsukh, c. 1825-30. Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh Todi. [1] Play ⓘ. Miyan ki Todi, often simply referred to as Todi or Darbari Todi (IAST: Toḍi), is a Hindustani classical raga which gave its name to the Todi thaat, one of the ten types of classical music according to the musicologist ...

  9. Khwaja Ahmad Abbas - Wikipedia

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    Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (7 June 1914 – 1 June 1987) [2] was an Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist in Urdu, Hindi and English.. He won four National Film Awards in India.