HINDI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE -- Publishers and Distributors

• List of Hindi Commercial Publishers-1 [Search श्रेणी:हिन्दी प्रकाशक in Hindi Wikipedia]
• List of Hindi Commercial Publishers-2 [Search हिंदी प्रकाशक सूची in Hindi Wikipedia]
• List of Hindi Commercial Publishers [pustak.org]

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HINDI PUBLISHERS & DISTRIBUTORS

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Aditya Prakashan

Andhra Pradesh Hindi Academy (आंध्र प्रदेश हिंदी अकादमी)

Ankita Prakasana
Bhartiya Jnanpith

B.R.Publishing Corporation
Bharatiya Kala Prakashan

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Daya Publishing House
Eastern Book Linkers

Hindi Book Centre

Hindi Sahitya Niketan
Hindustani Academy

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Kalpaz Publications

Kitabghar Prakashan
Lokbharti Prakashan

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Motilal Banarasidass (MLBD)
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers

Penguin Hindi
Pointer Publishers (Jaipur)

Prabhat Prakashan

Pratibha Prakashan

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Radha Publications
Radhakrishna Prakashan 
Rajasthani Granthagar
Rajkamal Prakashan
Remadhav Publications

Sahitya Akademi

Sanjay Prakashan
Sasta Sahitya Mandal

Suruchi Prakashan

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Vagdevi Prakashan
Vani Prakashan
Vishwavidyalaya Prakashan

HINDI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE -- Literary Academies Societies Schools Universities

Links to Hindi Literary Academies, Associations, Societies, Schools, Universities, etc.

• Andhra Pradesh Hindi Academy (आंध्रप्रदेश हिंदी अकादमी)
• Bharatiya Jnanpith
• Bihar Hindi Granth Akadami
• Bihar Hindi Rashtrabhasha Parishad
• Central Hindi Directorate
• Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha (दक्षिण भारत हिन्दी प्रचार सभा)
• Hindi Akadami, Delhi (हिंदी अकादमी, दिल्ली)
• Hindi Bhawan, New Delhi (हिन्दी भवन, नई दिल्ली)
• Hindi Sahitya Sabha (हिंदी साहित्य सभा, टोरंटो) [Toronto, Canada]
• Hindustani Academy (हिन्दुस्तानी अकादमी)
• International Hindi Association (अंतर्राष्ट्रीय हिन्दी समिति) [United States]
• Madhya Pradesh Hindi Granth Akadami
• Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University (महात्मा गांधी अन्तरराष्ट्रीय हिन्दी विश्वविद्यालय)
• National Book Trust, India
• Nepal Hindi Sahitya Parishad [Nepal]
• Sahitya Akademi
• Sahitya Kala Parishad [New Delhi]
• Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan
• World Hindi Foundation, Inc (विश्व हिंदी न्यास समिति)

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• Links from Hindi Wikipedia [Search हिन्दी सेवी संस्थाएँ]

HINDI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE -- Major Journals and Magazines

Name                   Frequency                Genre

Abhivyakti             weekly                 literary magazine

Anubhuti                weekly                 literary magazine

Argalaa                  quarterly              literary magazine 

Bharat Darshan                                 literary magazine

Gaveshana  quarterly magazine of literature language and linguistics by Kendriya Hindi Sansthan

Gyanodaya       monthly  literary magazine of Bharatiya Jnanpith

Hans                      monthly               Hindi literature

India Today            weekly                newsmagazine

Kadambini              monthly               literary magazine

Kathadesh              monthly               literature, culture, and arts

Kavita Kosh                                      literary magazine

Mukta                     monthly               youth magazine

Outlook Saptahik     weekly               newsmagazine

Prerna                     monthly              literary magazine

Sahitya Kunj                                      literary magazine

Srijangatha                                         literary magazine

Tadbhav                   quarterly            literature, culture

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  Katha Chakra (Reviews and description of Hindi literary magazines) (कथा चक्र : हिंदी में प्रकाशित साहित्यिक पत्रिकाओं की संक्षिप्त समीक्षा पढ़ें व उससे संबंधित जानकारी प्राप्त करें)

Links to Hindi Newspapers on Wikipedia

HINDI NEWSPAPERS (Wikipedia)

HINDI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE -- Major newspapers (with city)

Hindi has 25% of the total newspaper circulation in India. Since 2007 more and more newspapers are launching their Hindi edition in India because there has been a surge in Hindi readership.

Aaj : Lucknow, Allahabad, and some other cities of North India

 Amar Ujala : 18 editions across India in 7 states and 1 union territory. UP, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Chandigarh, New Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana


Daily Hindi Milap : Hyderabad


Dainik Bhaskar : Dainik Bhaskar is a Hindi-language daily newspaper of India. It was started in year 1958 from Bhopal, the capital city of Madhya Pradesh. Currently it is published from many cities of North and Central India. The Main Cities Include : Bhopal, Indore, New Delhi, Lucknow, Nagpur, Gwalior, Jaipur Ajmer, Jabalpur, Varanasi, Ahemedabad

 Dainik Jagaran : Cutting across artificial boundaries of caste, religion, culture and creed Dainik Jagran unites India today across 11 states with 32 editions and with a phenomenal readership of 56.1 mn as per the IRS (Round II 2008). Dainik Jagran covers 11 states of India: Delhi, Bihar, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal.
Among all Hindi newspapers Dainik Jagaran has a very interesting section named Sahitya. This page is distributed in 5 parts, namely, Sahitya Samachar (literary news), Sahityika Kritiyam, Sakshatkar, Paricharcha, and Pustak Samiksha (book reviews) . This is an interesting page and it is good to view it once a week to keep abreast with the latest developments in Hindi literature. 


Deshbandhu : National edition, Raipur, Bilaspur, Bhopal


Hindustan : Delhi, Patna, Lucknow, Ranchi


Nai Duniya : Indore, Jabalpur, Bhopal, Gwalior, Raipur, Delhi, Bilaspur,


Navbharat Times : Navbharat Times is the largest Hindi Daily in Delhi, Indore and Bombay. It is published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., the largest media group in India. This group is better known as The Times Group and is also the publisher of largest English daily The Times of India. Navbharat Times has a very interesting section named साहित्य संसार which is under विचार मंच section. This page is distributed in following sections: कृतियां l हलचल l नई किताबें l किताब लाजवाब . This is an interesting page and it is good to view it once a week to keep abreast with the latest developments in Hindi literature.


Prabhat Khabar : Prabhat Khabar is a Hindi language newspaper published daily in Jharkhand in northern India. The newspaper is circulated in several states in India, including Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. It was founded in August 1984 in Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand.


Punjab Kesari : Punjab Kesari is a Hindi-language newspaper published from many centres in Punjab and Haryana in India. It claims itself to be the largest selling Hindi daily in India.


Rajasthan Patrika : Rajasthan Patrika is printed from the following places: Jaipur, Jodhpur, Sikar, Sriganganganagar, Udaipur, Alwar, Bikaner, Banswara, Ajmer, Pali, Kota, Bhilwara, Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Bangalore, Surat, Kolkatta


Rashtriya Sahara : Patna, Delhi, Dehradun, Lucknow, Jaipur

List of newspapers in India by circulation

HINDI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE -- Major publishing centers (with size of the city)

Bihar : Patna

Chhattisgarh : Raipur

Delhi : New Delhi

Haryana : Panchkula, Rohtak

Jharkhand : Ranchi

Madhya Pradesh : Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain

Rajasthan : Jaipur

Uttar Pradesh : Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Allahabad, Agra, Ghaziabad, Meerut

Uttaranchal : Deharadun

HINDI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE -- Annual Publishing Output and Publisingh Trends

Around 20,000-25,000

Note: India is 7th largest publisher in world out of which 25% of titles are published in Hindi

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Articles in Blogs and Magazines:

• Why India Makes a Perfect Publishing Partner (Publishing Perspectives)
• Publishing in India Today: 19,000 Publishers, 90,000 Titles, Many Opportunities (Publishing Perspectives; July 6, 2011) Part 1 of our look at India’s publishing industry reveals rising challenges for editorial departments, new business models for distribution, and the rise of agenting in India.
  Excerpt from the article: The publishing industry in South Asia as a whole, and India in particular, has never seen better times. There has been an astounding increase in the number of titles originating from and being produced in the region, in addition to large-scale investment in retail, fresh marketing tools and increasing standards of book production. The Indian scenario is particularly unique. With a whopping 550 million people below the age of 30, and with a significant and consumerist middle class, book sales in the country could well surpass all expectations.
  Amidst this excitement, one still finds a fractured infrastructure that presents a huge challenge and a consequent opportunity for the industry. First, there is the challenge of finding interested and trained professionals. Publishing was, and in many ways still is, a family-owned and family-run business, which means that many people in the profession were literally born into publishing.
• Publishing in India Today: Growing Imports/Exports, Territoriality, Piracy and Digital(Publishing Perspectives; July 7, 2011)
  
  Excerpt from the article: In part 2 of our series on “Publishing in India Today” we consider India’s growing exposure to the international book markets, challenges to copyright law, the continuing problem of piracy and Indian e-books.
  Of the many issues that are currently bringing together the publishing community in India, the issue that has generated one of the most significant responses is the proposed amendments to the country’s copyright law. Though there is a clear divide between people for and against it, publishers almost unanimously oppose the amendment.
  As proposed, the amendment sanctions parallel imports, which allow the import of multiple editions of books into the Indian market, rendering the whole point of territorial rights a bit useless.
• The Wild World of Hindi Pulp Fiction
• A peek into the noir world of Hindi pulp fiction
• The life and death of Hindi pulp fiction
  
  
  
  

HINDI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE -- Number of speakers

Ethnologue: 180,000,000 in India (1991 UBS). Population total all countries: 180,764,791. Ethnic population: 363,839,000

Census of India: 422,048,642

Wikipedia: ~ 500–680 million

HINDI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE -- Geographical Region covered by Language

Throughout northern India: Delhi; Uttar Pradesh; Uttaranchal; Rajasthan; Punjab; Madhya Pradesh; northern Bihar; Himachal Pradesh. Also spoken in Bangladesh, Belize, Botswana, Germany, Kenya, Nepal, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA, Yemen, Zambia.

HINDI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE -- Writing System

Devanagari, Urdu, Kaithi, Latin, and several regional scripts.

HINDI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE -- Classification

Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Western Hindi, Hindustani

HINDI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE -- Dialects

Formal vocabulary is borrowed from Sanskrit, de-Persianized, de-Arabicized. Literary Hindi, or Hindi-Urdu, has four varieties: Hindi (High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, Literary Hindi, Standard Hindi); Urdu; Dakhini; Rekhta. State language of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh. Languages and dialects in the Western Hindi group are Hindustani, Haryanvi, Braj Bhasha, Kanauji, Bundeli; see separate entries.

HINDI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE -- Alternative names

Khari Boli, Khadi Boli

HINDI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE -- Introduction and History

Hindi is the name given to an Indo-Aryan language, or a dialect continuum of languages, spoken in northern and central India (the "Hindi belt") Native speakers of Hindi dialects between them account for 41% of the Indian population (2001 Indian census). As defined in the Constitution, Hindi is one of the two official languages of communication (English being the other) for India's federal government and is one of the 22 scheduled languages specified in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution.Official Hindi is often described as Standard Hindi, which along with English, is used for administration of the central government. Hindustani or Standard Hindi is also an official language of Fiji.

Standard Hindi is a sanskritised register derived from the khari boli dialect. Urdu is a different, persianised register of the same dialect.

History: Like many other modern Indian languages, Hindi has evolved from Sanskrit, by way of the Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit languages and Apabhramsha of the Middle Ages. Though there is no consensus for a specific time, Hindi originated as local dialects such as Braj, Awadhi and finally Khari Boli after the turn of tenth century.[9] In the span of nearly a thousand years of Muslim influence, such as when Muslim rulers controlled much of northern India during the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire, many Persian and Arabic words were absorbed into khari boli and was called Urdu. Since almost all Arabic words came via Persian, they do not preserve the original phonology of Arabic.

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USEFUL WEBSITES ON HINDI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

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• Chronological Highlights / History of Hindi Language
• Hindikunj
• Language Information Service (LIS)-India [Recommended]
• Natya Shodh Sansthan : An Archive of Indian Theater
• Hindi Portal of Hindi Wikipedia [Recommended]
• Department of Official Language, Govt. of India