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  2. Hindu calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Bengali calendar is similar to the Tamil calendar except in that it starts the year with Boiśākh (instead of Choitrô), followed by Jyoisthô etc. The Assamese and Odia calendars too are structured the same way. The solar months (rāśi) along with their equivalent names in the Bangali, Malayalam and Tamil calendar are given below:

  3. Persian and Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani (sometimes called HindiUrdu) is a colloquial language and lingua franca of Pakistan and the Hindi Belt of India. It forms a dialect continuum between its two formal registers: the highly Persianized Urdu, and the de-Persianized, Sanskritized Hindi. [2] Urdu uses a modification of the Persian alphabet, whereas Hindi uses Devanagari ...

  4. Fasli calendar - Wikipedia

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    another document of fasliyear 1343 ic. AD 1933. Fasli Calendar is a chronological system introduced by the Mughal emperor Akbar basically for land revenue and records purposes in northern India, The differences in records dates due to the Muslim lunar calendar because of moon sighting have led him to introduce an alternate calendar which follows simultaneously with Islamic Lunar calendar and ...

  5. Hindi–Urdu transliteration - Wikipedia

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    Note that HindiUrdu transliteration schemes can be used for Punjabi as well, for Gurmukhi (Eastern Punjabi) to Shahmukhi (Western Punjabi) conversion, since Shahmukhi is a superset of the Urdu alphabet (with 2 extra consonants) and the Gurmukhi script can be easily converted to the Devanagari script.

  6. Indian New Year's days - Wikipedia

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    In Gujarat the new year is celebrated as the day after Diwali. As per the Hindu Calendar, it falls on Shukla Paksha Pratipada in the Hindu month of Kartik. As per the Indian Calendar based on the lunar cycle, Kartik is the first month of the year and the New Year in Gujarat falls on the first bright day of Kartik (Ekam).

  7. Hindustani language - Wikipedia

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    The standardised registers Hindi and Urdu are collectively known as HindiUrdu. [11] Hindustani is the lingua franca of the north and west of the Indian subcontinent, though it is understood fairly well in other regions also, especially in the urban areas. [12] This has led it to be characterised as a continuum that ranges between Hindi and ...

  8. Linguistic history of India - Wikipedia

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    The Tamil auxiliary verb system. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-34672-6. Tharu, Susie; Lalita, K. (1991). Women writing in India : 600 B.C. to the present. The Feminist Press at the City University of New York. ISBN 978-1-55861-026-2. Tieken, Herman (2001). Kavya in South India: Old Tamil Cankam Poetry. Gonda Indological Studies, Volume X. Groningen ...

  9. Hijra (South Asia) - Wikipedia

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    The Hindi word hijra may alternately be romanized as hijira, ... Each year in Tamil Nadu, ... (Urdu: بول meaning Speak), is a 2011 Urdu-language Pakistani social ...