Tag Results: urdu
Heritage Matters
Creating a Digital Repository | Heritage Matters
Our great libraries have many rare books & manuscripts but many of them are inaccessible & fragile. On Heritage Matters, we look at how digital platform Rekhta is helping save rare Urdu classics
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Fort William College & Its Ironic Legacy
Fort William College was meant to train young British lads for the Company but it ended up as a great centre of Indian languages. Find out how a college set up by the East India Company became the ‘birthplace of modern Hindi’ and went on to even influence the Bengal Renaissance
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Chandrakanta: The First Hindi Bestseller
A novel that rewrote the rules and became a bestseller, ushering in a new era for Hindi literature