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On 9 January 1864 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan formed a translation society called Scientific Society at Ghazipur with the goal of translating scientific books of English and other European languages into Urdu and Hindi. [2] The first meeting was held in January 1864 under the president ship of Mr. A. B. Spate, the then Collector of Ghazipur. [3]
Faizal Khan (born 1993), known professionally as Khan Sir (pronounced [ˈxɑːn sɪɽ] ⓘ), is an Indian Educator and YouTuber based in Patna, Bihar. He runs a coaching centre for students preparing for different kinds of competitive exams in India.
Phanishwar Nath 'Renu' (1921–1977), Hindi novelist; Padma Sachdev (1940–2021), poet, novelist in Hindi and Dogri; Pran Kumar Sharma (1938–2014), creator of Chacha Choudhary; Premchand (1880–1936), modern Hindustani literature; Priyamvad (1952–), writer and historian in Hindi. Parichay Das (1964–), writer and editor in contemporary ...
The Aligarh Institute Gazette (Urdu: اخبار سائنٹیفک سوسائٹی) was the first multilingual journal of India, introduced, edited, and published in 1866 by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan [1] [2] which was read widely across the country. [3]
The demand for Hindi, led largely by Hindus, was to Sir Syed an erosion of the centuries-old Muslim cultural domination of India. Testifying before the British-appointed education commission, Sir Syed controversially exclaimed that "Urdu was the language of gentry and Hindi that of the vulgar."
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.
Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Pashto: عبدالغفار خان; 6 February 1890 – 20 January 1988), also known as Bacha Khan (Pashto: باچا خان) or Badshah Khan (بادشاه خان, 'King of Chiefs'), was an Indian independence activist from the North-West Frontier Province, and founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British colonial rule in India.
Usha Kiran Khan (also known as Ushākiraṇa Khāna and other variants, [1] 24 October 1945 – 11 February 2024) was an Indian writer who worked in the Hindi and Maithili languages. She was also an academic historian.