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Himanshu Ranjan: The Development of Allahabad and its Intervention as a Cultural Centre of the Hindi-Urdu Belt
Himanshu Ranjan: The Development of Allahabad and its Intervention as a Cultural Centre of the Hindi-Urdu Belt
Allahabad emerged as a prominent cultural centre of modern esteem in the 20th century, out of a very complicated and controversial background of the so-called 19th-century renaissance (particularly that of Hindi-Urdu belt), engrossed with rivivalist trends and a typical communal divide where Hindi and Urdu were identified with the Hindu and the Muslim religious communities respectively. Ironically, the two languages belong to the same socio-historic demography of the same belt. linguistic, literary, cultural and socio-political movements, debates and discourses that constitute Allahabad as an important cultural centre of the Hindi-Urdu belt.
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