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Hindi one-act play
The Hindi one-act play, called ekanki (एकांकी), is a short dramatic form in Hindi literature that completes a story in a single act, treated as an independent genre distinct from the full-length natak.
Hindi Partition literature
Hindi Partition literature is the body of Hindi fiction, poetry, and drama about the 1947 Partition of British India, including Yashpal's Jhootha Sac and Sahni's Tamas.
Hindi radio drama
Hindi radio drama (हिन्दी रेडियो नाटक) is dramatic fiction broadcast in Hindi, in which story and character are conveyed entirely through dialogue, sound effects, and music on All India Radio.
Hindi Sahitya ka Itihas
Hindi Sahitya ka Itihas (हिन्दी साहित्य का इतिहास, "History of Hindi Literature") is a 1929 book by Acharya Ramchandra Shukla, regarded as the first systematic history of Hindi literature.
Hindi Sahitya ka Samajik Itihas
Hindi Sahitya ka Samajik Itihas (हिन्दी साहित्य का सामाजिक इतिहास) is the social history of Hindi literature, studying literary periods as shaped by social, religious, and economic conditions, from Adikal to the modern period.
Hindi Sahitya Sammelan
Hindi Sahitya Sammelan (हिन्दी साहित्य सम्मेलन), formally the Akhil Bharatiya Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, is a Hindi literature organization founded in 1910 and based in Prayagraj, India.
Hindi science fiction
Hindi science fiction (हिन्दी विज्ञान कथा, vijñān kathā) is science fiction written in Hindi, a tradition dating to Ambika Datta Vyas's Aashcharya Vrittant, serialized between 1884 and 1888.
Hindi Shabd Sagar
Hindi Shabd Sagar (हिंदी शब्दसागर, "Ocean of Hindi Words") is a monumental monolingual Hindi dictionary published by the Nagari Pracharini Sabha of Varanasi, first printed at Benares in 1916–28.
Hindi short story
The Hindi short story (हिन्दी कहानी, kahani) is a prose fiction genre in Hindi that developed from about 1900, modeled on the English short story and the Bengali galp.
Hindi theatre
Hindi theatre (हिन्दी रंगमंच) is the tradition of stage drama in Hindi, developed from the late nineteenth century onward in north India and in Delhi and Mumbai.
Hindi travel literature
Hindi travel literature (yatra-vrittant) is a Hindi prose genre combining journey accounts with vivid description, begun in the Bharatendu era and established by Rahul Sankrityayan.
Hindi–Urdu controversy
Hindi–Urdu controversy: the 1860s-to-independence dispute in British India over Hindi (Devanagari) versus Urdu (Perso-Arabic script) for courts and government, which split Hindustani into Hindu- and Muslim-identified registers and shaped India's and Pakistan's official languages.
Hindia
Hindia is an extinct genus of Ordovician to Carboniferous demosponge (family Hindiidae) named by Duncan in 1879; small round silica fossils, distinct from the snail genus Hindsia.
Hindia (singer)
Hindia is the solo indie-pop project of Indonesian singer-songwriter Daniel Baskara Putra (born 1994, Jakarta), also vocalist of .Feast and member of Lomba Sihir; debut album Menari dengan Bayangan (2019) passed one billion Spotify streams.
HindIII
HindIII is a Type II restriction enzyme from the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae strain Rd that cuts DNA at AAGCTT, leaving sticky ends widely used in molecular cloning.
Hindley Street Country Club
Hindley Street Country Club is an Australian cover band formed in Adelaide in 2017, known for weekly one-take re-recordings of 1970s to 1990s hits on YouTube.
Hindley–Milner type system
The Hindley–Milner type system, also known as Hindley–Milner type inference, is a polymorphic type system for the lambda calculus, the foundation of type inference in ML, OCaml, and Haskell.
Hindlimb unloading
Hindlimb unloading is a rodent model in which the hindquarters are elevated so the hindlimbs cannot bear weight while the forelimbs remain loaded, the standard ground-based model of microgravity.
Hindolo Mustapha
Hindolo Mustapha (Hindolo Thomas Eric Mustapha, born 2006, Lambeth) is a Sierra Leonean attacking midfielder at Notts County on loan from Crystal Palace; 3 caps, 1 goal for Sierra Leone, first scoring in a 2024 AFCON qualifier.
Hinds County
Hinds County, Mississippi: home of capital Jackson, founded 1821 from Treaty of Doak's Stand, named for Gen. Thomas Hinds; most populous Mississippi county since 1860, 227,742 residents in 2020, declining since.
Hindsight bias
Hindsight bias, the knew-it-all-along effect, is the tendency to see past events as more predictable than they were. Studied since Fischhoff's 1975 experiments; involves memory distortion, inevitability, and foreseeability.
Hindsight Experience Replay
Hindsight Experience Replay (HER) is a reinforcement learning technique from OpenAI, introduced in 2017, that makes sparse-reward tasks learnable by relabeling failed episodes as successes for goals the agent reached.
Hindu astrology (ज्योतिष)
Hindu astrology (ज्योतिष), also called Jyotisha or Vedic astrology, is the Indian astral system that casts birth charts on the sidereal zodiac, differing from Western astrology by about 24 degrees.
Hindu calendar (पञ्चाङ्ग)
The Hindu calendar, called Panchanga (पञ्चाङ्ग, "five limbs"), is a family of lunisolar and solar calendars across India and Nepal, chiefly used to fix dates of Hindu festivals and rituals.
Hindu code bills
Hindu code bills: four 1955-1956 Indian acts codifying Hindu personal law on marriage, succession, guardianship, and adoption, born from the defeated 1940s Hindu Code Bill championed by Ambedkar and Nehru.
Hindu cosmology
Hindu cosmology: the Hindu accounts of the universe's origin, structure, and vast cyclical time (yugas, kalpas, manvantaras, pralaya), from the Vedas and Upanishads through Puranic geography of Mount Meru and the seven dvipas, distinct from Buddhist and Jain cosmologies.
Hindu deities
Hindu deities, also called the Hindu pantheon, are the gods, goddesses, and divine incarnations (devas and avataras) worshipped in Hinduism, scripturally counted at thirty-three though popularly described as 330 million.
Hindu denominations
Hindu denominations, also called Hindu sects, are the main traditions of Hinduism: Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism, and Smartism, distinguished by which deity they worship, with Vaishnavism the largest.
Hindu iconography
Hindu iconography is the system of rules and symbols governing Hindu sacred images: the proportions, postures, hand gestures, weapons, and ornaments by which a deity is represented and recognized.
Hindu joint family
Hindu joint family: a patrilineal Hindu household and legal entity holding coparcenary property under Mitakshara and Dayabhaga law, reformed by the Hindu Succession Acts of 1956 and 2005.