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InPage. InPage is a word processor and page layout software by Concept Software Pvt. Ltd., an Indian information technology company. It is used for languages such as Urdu, Arabic, Balti, Balochi, Burushaski, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi and Shina under Windows and macOS. It was first developed in 1994 and is primarily used for creating ...
In British India, English was the sole language used for administrative purposes as well as for higher education purposes. When India became independent in 1947, the Indian legislators had the challenge of choosing a language for official communication as well as for communication between different linguistic regions across India. The choices ...
English language. Indian English ( IE) is a group of English dialects spoken in the Republic of India and among the Indian diaspora. [4] English is used by the Indian government for communication, along with Modern Standard Hindi, as enshrined in the Constitution of India. [5]
Hindi (in the Devanagari script) is the official language of the Union Government of India as per Article 343 of the Constitution of India and there is no national language for the country. [1] [2] English has the status of a "subsidiary official language" according to clause 3 of Official Languages Act, 1963 .
The name Nastaliq "is a contraction of the Persian naskh-i ta'liq ( Persian: نَسْخِ تَعلیق ), meaning a hanging or suspended naskh. " [6] Virtually all Safavid authors (like Dust Muhammad or Qadi Ahmad) attributed the invention of nastaliq to Mir Ali Tabrizi, who lived at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century.
Hinglish is the macaronic hybrid use of South Asian English and the Hindustani language. Its name is a portmanteau of the words Hindi and English. In the context of spoken language, it involves code-switching or translanguaging between these languages whereby they are freely interchanged within a sentence or between sentences.
The official languages of British India before independence were English, Standard Urdu and later Modern Standard Hindi, with English being used for purposes at the central level. The origins of official Hindi usage traces back to 1900, when MacDonnell issued an order, which allowed the “permissive — but not exclusive — use” of ...
India 1858–1947 Anthem: "God Save the King/Queen" Political subdivisions of the British Raj in 1909. British India is shown in two shades of pink; Sikkim, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Princely states are shown in yellow. The British Raj in relation to the British Empire in 1909 Status Imperial political structure (comprising British India [a] and the Princely States [b] Capital Calcutta [c] (1858 ...