Lallu Lal
Lallu Lal (* 1763 ; † 1825 ) was one of the first Hindi authors.
At the beginning of the 19th century he worked as a teacher of Hindi under John B. Gilchrist at Fort William College in Calcutta . Gilchrist commissioned Lallu Lal to write prose texts in a form of Hindustani that was freed from Persian and Arabic loanwords . Lal wrote Premsagar (Ocean of Love) between 1804 and 1810 , one of the first prose works in Hindi. Lal's works served as the basis for the development of "Shuddh Hindi", a Sanskriti form of Hindi that became the vehicle of Hindu nationalism in the context of the Hindi-Urdu controversy in the late 19th century .
literature
- Dalmia, Vasudha: The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions. Bhâratendu Harishchandra and Nineteenth-Century Banaras. Delhi 1997: OUP.
- King, Christopher: One Language, Two Scripts. Delhi 1994: OUP.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lal, Lallu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hindi teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1763 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1825 |