Rao, Parsa Venkateshwar  <br/><br/>
Hindi caught in the throes of history  

 - India International Center Quarterly  
 - 52(2), Autumn 2025: p.57-65 
<br/><br/>  It should not come as a surprise that every language reflects the history of its time right from its organs to the evolution of its literature. The genealogy of Hindi is necessarily intertwined with the languages that had existed earlier in the north Indian region that can now roughly be identified with the present day Hindi heartland spreading across Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Rajasthan. – Reproduced