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What counts as Hindi?
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What counts as Hindi?

Tyler Williams’s history of early modern Hindi reveals a literary world far more diverse and materially complex than the contemporary definition of the language suggests, challenging fixed ideas about literature and cultural history

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A classic illustration of Mughal emperor Akbar sitting in court and surrounded by courtiers. A speech bubble shows that the emperor is uttering an expletive.
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