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EASTERN HINDI

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 478 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EASTERN

HINDI  , one of the " intermediate" Indo-
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Aryan
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languages (see HINDOSTANI) . It is spoken in Oudh, Baghelkhand and
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Chhattisgarh by over 22,000,000
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people . It is derived from the Apabhrarilsa form of Ardhamagadhi Prakrit (see PRAKRIT), and possesses a large and important literature . Its most famous writer was Tulsi Dais, the poet and reformer, who 'died early in the 17th century, and since his time it has been the North-
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Indian language employed for epic
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poetry .

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