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Hind bint Maktoum Al Maktoum
Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum (هند بنت مكتوم بن جمعة آل مكتوم), Emirati royal, senior wife of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, married 1979, mother of 11 of his children, patron of the Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum Family Programme and Quran competition.
Hind bint Utba
Hind bint Utba (هند بنت عتبة) was a Meccan noblewoman of the Quraysh, wife of Abu Sufyan and mother of Muawiya, founder of the Umayyad state.
Hind Rajab Foundation
The Hind Rajab Foundation is a Brussels-based Belgian non-profit founded September 2024, named for a girl killed in Gaza, that files universal jurisdiction war-crimes complaints against Israeli soldiers worldwide and at the ICC.
Hind Swaraj
Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule) is a short political tract written by Mohandas Gandhi in Gujarati in 1909 aboard the Kildonan Castle, criticizing modern civilization and redefining swaraj as both home rule and moral self-rule.
Hind's Hall
Hind's Hall is a 2024 protest song by Macklemore, also known as HIND'S HALL, named for Columbia's Hamilton Hall, renamed by protesters for Hind Rajab. It samples Fairuz, criticizes US policy on Gaza and Biden, and its proceeds went to UNRWA.
Hinda dynasty
The Hinda dynasty was a family of ruling lineages governing precolonial Great Lakes kingdoms, notably Nkore in western Uganda and Karagwe in Tanzania, tracing descent from the legendary Ruhinda.
Hindal Mirza
Hindal Mirza (ہندال میرزا) was a Mughal prince and brother of Emperor Humayun who rebelled at Agra in 1537 and was killed by their brother Kamran's men in 1551.
Hindalco Industries
Hindalco Industries Limited, also known as Hindalco, is an Indian aluminum and copper producer, the metals flagship of the Aditya Birla Group, and through its subsidiary Novelis the world's largest flat-rolled aluminum producer.
Hindcasting
Hindcasting, known in geosciences as reforecasting, runs a predictive model over a past period and compares its output with withheld observations to estimate forecast skill.
Hindenburg disaster
The Hindenburg disaster was the fire that destroyed the German passenger airship Hindenburg at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937, killing 35 of the 97 people on board and one ground crewman.
Hindenburg Line
Hindenburg Line: German First World War defensive system between Cambrai and St Quentin, called Siegfriedstellung by Germany. Built from 1916, occupied in the February-April 1917 Alberich withdrawal, and broken by Allied armies in September-October 1918.
Hindenburg Research
Hindenburg Research was a New York short-selling research firm founded by Nathan Anderson in 2017, known for its 2023 Adani Group report; it disbanded in 2025.
Hindenburg-class airship
The Hindenburg class comprised two German rigid passenger airships, LZ 129 Hindenburg and LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II, the largest ever built for commercial service.
Hinder
Hinder: Oklahoma City rock band formed 2001 (Hanson, Garvey, Winkler). Debut Extreme Behavior (2005) went 3x Platinum; "Lips of an Angel" hit number one. Winkler left 2013; Marshal Dutton fronts since 2015.
Hindi (हिन्दी)
Hindi (हिन्दी), or Modern Standard Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language written in Devanagari; it has been India's official language since 1950 and is the country's largest by speakers.
Hindi autobiographical literature
Hindi autobiographical literature is life writing in Hindi, from Banarasidas's Ardhakathā of 1641 to the Dalit and women's autobiographies that reshaped the genre from the 1990s.
Hindi Belt
Hindi Belt (Hindi Heartland): loosely defined North and Central Indian region of Hindi-official states (Bihar, UP, MP, Rajasthan, Haryana, and others), spanning Western and Eastern Hindi dialects, with census grouping of regional mother tongues under Hindi shaping its demographics and politics.
Hindi cinema
Hindi cinema, popularly called Bollywood, is the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai. It began in Bombay in 1896, adopted sound with Alam Ara (1931), and spans the 1950s Golden era, 1970s masala films, and today's box-office leader.
Hindi detective fiction
Hindi detective fiction, also known as jasoosi upanyas, is a popular genre of detective and crime novels written in Hindi, sold chiefly at railway stations and footpath bookstalls.
Hindi epic poetry
Hindi epic poetry (Hindi mahakavya) is the tradition of long narrative poems in Hindi and its dialects, adapting the Sanskrit mahakavya, with Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas and Prasad's Kamayani among its greatest works.
Hindi essay
The Hindi essay (निबंध, nibandh) is a prose genre in Hindi literature in which a writer presents a subject through personal thought, reasoning, and feeling.
Hindi film song
A Hindi film song is a song written and first released as part of a Hindi-language Indian feature film, the dominant popular music of Bollywood since sound film arrived in 1931.
Hindi ghazal
The Hindi ghazal (हिन्दी ग़ज़ल) is the ghazal verse form written in Hindi in Devanagari script, established in the twentieth century above all by Dushyant Kumar.
Hindi literary criticism
Hindi literary criticism (हिंदी आलोचना) is the tradition of evaluative writing on Hindi literature, born in the Bharatendu era and centered on Acharya Ramchandra Shukla.
Hindi literary historiography
Hindi literary historiography (हिन्दी साहित्येतिहास लेखन) is the scholarly practice of writing the history of Hindi literature, begun in 1839 and given its canonical form by Ramchandra Shukla in 1929.
Hindi literary journalism
Hindi literary journalism (हिंदी पत्रकारिता) is the Hindi publishing tradition combining news with literary and reform writing, beginning with the weekly Udant Martand in Calcutta in 1826.
Hindi literature
Hindi literature (हिन्दी साहित्य): writing in Hindi dialects Brajbhasha, Awadhi, Khari Boli over four periods (Adikal, Bhaktikal, Ritikal, Adhunik), with modern figures like Dwivedi and Premchand and Sahitya Akademi recognition.
Hindi little magazines
Hindi little magazines (लघु पत्रिकाएँ, laghu patrikayein) are small, non-commercial literary periodicals in Hindi that flourished in the 1960s and 1970s, opening space for new writers.
Hindi Medium (हिंदी मीडियम)
Hindi Medium (हिंदी मीडियम) is a 2017 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Saket Chaudhary, starring Irrfan Khan and Saba Qamar as Delhi parents faking poverty to get their daughter into an elite English-medium school; it earned 69.59 crore and won Irrfan the Filmfare Best Actor Award.
Hindi novel
The Hindi novel (हिन्दी उपन्यास) is the tradition of extended prose fiction in Hindi, arising under Bengali influence in the nineteenth century and given mature form by Premchand.