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Emergence of
Regional Cultures
The description of people on linguistic basis is the same day as their new year day ‘Thapna’. Sindhis,
extremely common. In other words, people are people from Sindh, celebrate the same day as their
described on the basis of the language they New Year day ‘Cheti Chand’. Manipuris also celebrate
speak or their mother tongue. When we refer to their New Year ‘Sajibu Nongma Panba’ on the same
any person as a Kannada or a Marathi, this day.
usually means that he/she speaks Kannada or
DEVELOPMENT OF A LANGUAGE
Marathi respectively. We also have a tendency to
Growth of Malayalam
associate each region with distinctive kinds of
food, clothing, poetry, dance, music and paint- The Chera kingdom of Mahodayapuram was
ing. We also sometimes tend to take these established in the 9th century in the south-
aspects of people as granted and assume that the western part of the peninsula, part of present-day
people are identified with these since time Kerala. It is likely that Malayalam was spoken in
this area. The rulers introduced the Malayalam
immemorial. However, this may not be true. This
language and script in their inscriptions. This
is because :
development is considered as one of the earliest
g The frontiers that separate regions have
examples of the use of a regional language in
evolved over time and are still evolving.
official records in the subcontinent. At the same
g The cultures of a region are hybrid in
time, the Cheras also drew upon Sanskritic
nature, i.e., they have evolved as a result of
traditions. A 14th-century text, the Lilatilakam,
intermixing of local traditions with ideas
dealing with grammar and poetics, was com-
from other parts of the subcontinent.
posed in Manipravalam – literally, “diamonds
g The regional cultures that exist today have
not been exclusively for that region. and corals” referring to the two languages,
Sanskrit and the regional language.
g Some traditions appear specific to some
regions. Growth of Hindi
g Some seem to be similar across regions Hindi emerged as an important language in
g Some are derived from older practices in a Medieval India. It emerged in between 7th and
particular area, but take a new form in other 10th century. Medieval Hindi was in the form of
regions. Brij Bhasha, a dialect spoken in and around the
region of Mathura during the times of Akbar.
Hindi poets of the Age were Goswami Tulsidas –
New Year in various Indian states : While the people
the writer of Ramcharitmanas and Surdas was
of Andhra Pradesh and Telengana use the term
‘Ugadi’ and Karnataka use the term ‘Yugadi/Ugadi’ for another Hindi poet of Sur Sagar.
their New Year festival, the people of Maharashtra Flowering of Marathi
term the same festival, observed on the same day as The Bahmani rulers patronised Marathi as the
‘Gudi Padwa’. Marwari, people of Rajasthan celebrate administrative language in their kingdom.
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