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Awadhi people

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The Awadhi (or Avadhi) people are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group that are part of the Hindustani (Hindavi) panethnicity who speak the Awadhi dialect of Hindustani and reside in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand, India and some adjoining regions of the Terai in Nepal, and in addition 1.9 per cent of Nepalis are Awadhi-speakers. [1]

72 relations: Abhishek Bachchan, Abhishek Chaubey, Aditi Sharma, Afroz Ahmad, Akhil Kumar, Akhilesh Yadav, Ali Sardar Jafri, Amaresh Misra, Amitabh Bachchan, Anand Sen Yadav, Anushka Sharma, Asma Hussain, Awadh, Awadhi language, Awadhiya (caste), Babu Gulabrai, Bachchan family, Bekal Utsahi, Bhagwati Charan Verma, Bhojpuri people, Bihar, Bihari Mauritian, Bollywood, Buddhism, Capildeo family, Caribbean, Christianity, Fiji, Gopaldas Neeraj, Guyana, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Hinduism, Hindustani language, Hindustani people, India, Indian South Africans, Indians in Fiji, Indo-Aryan peoples, Indo-Caribbeans, Islam, Jainism, Jharkhand, Kailas Nath Kaul, Madhya Pradesh, Mahabir Prasad Asthana, Mauritians of Indian origin, Mauritius, Mitrasen Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Muzaffar Ali, ..., Narendra Deva, Naushad, Nepal, Nepalis, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Nivedita Tiwari, Pali Chandra, Panethnicity, Piaa Bajpai, Rudranath Capildeo, Sarita Bhadauria, Satish Mishra, Sehba Hussain, Shiva Naipaul, Simbhoonath Capildeo, South Africa, Suriname, Terai, Trinidad and Tobago, Uttar Pradesh, V. S. Naipaul, Wahid Khan. Expand index (22 more) »

Abhishek Bachchan

Abhishek Bachchan (born 5 February 1976) is an Indian film actor, producer and playback singer known for his works in Bollywood and Bengali cinema.

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Abhishek Chaubey

Abhishek Chaubey (born 30 March 1977) is an Indian film director, writer, screenwriter and producer.

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Aditi Sharma

Aditi Sharma (born 24 August 1983) is an Indian actress who has appeared in Hindi and Punjabi films.

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Afroz Ahmad

Afroz Ahmad is an Indian environment scientist and development administrator.

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Akhil Kumar

Akhil Kumar (born 27 March 1981) is an Indian boxer who has won several international and national boxing awards.

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Akhilesh Yadav

Akhilesh Yadav (born 1 July 1973) is an Indian politician and the current President of the Samajwadi Party.

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Ali Sardar Jafri

Ali Sardar Jafri (29 November 1913 – 1 August 2000) was an Urdu writer from India.

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Amaresh Misra

Amaresh Misra is an Indian writer.

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Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan (born 11 October 1942) is an Indian film actor, producer, television host, and former politician.

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Anand Sen Yadav

Anand Sen Yadav is an Indian politician from the Bahujan Samaj Party who was convicted on charges of kidnapping and murder in 2011.

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Anushka Sharma

Anushka Sharma (born 1 May 1988) is an Indian actress and film producer.

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Asma Hussain

Sahibzadi Asma Hussain (عاصمہ حسین, अस्मा हुसैन, born Lucknow, India) is an Indian fashion designer.

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Awadh

Awadh (Hindi: अवध, اوَدھ),, known in British historical texts as Avadh or Oudh, is a region in the modern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (before independence known as the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh) and a small area of Nepal's Province No. 5.

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Awadhi language

Awadhi (Devanagari: अवधी) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh and Terai belt of Nepal.

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Awadhiya (caste)

Awadhiya (also referred to as Awadhiya Kurmi, Ayodhya Kurmi and Awadha Vansi) is an endogomous subcaste of the Kurmi who believe themselves to be descendants of the mythological Suryavanshi (Solar) dynasty.

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Babu Gulabrai

Babu Gulabrai (17 January 1888 – 13 April 1963) was a significant figure in modern Hindi literature.

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Bachchan family

The Srivastava-Bachchan family (Hindi: बच्चन परिवार) is an Indian family, headed by Amitabh Bachchan.

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Bekal Utsahi

Muhammad Shafi Ali Khan often referred to asBekal Utsahi (1928 – 3 December 2016) was a poet, writer and politician.

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Bhagwati Charan Verma

Bhagwati Charan Verma (30 August 1903 – 5 October 1981), was one of the leading writers in Hindi.

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Bhojpuri people

Bhojpuris are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group that are part of the Hindustani (Hindavi) panethnicity who speak the Bhojpuri language, which is, sociolinguistically, one of the seven Hindi languages (Haryanvi, Braj, Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Bundeli, Bagheli and Kannauji), and inhabit the Bhojpuri-Purvanchal region.

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Bihar

Bihar is an Indian state considered to be a part of Eastern as well as Northern India.

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Bihari Mauritian

Bihari Mauritians are the descendants of Bhojpuri migrants to Mauritius.

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Bollywood

Hindi cinema, often metonymously referred to as Bollywood, is the Indian Hindi-language film industry, based in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Maharashtra, India.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Capildeo family

The Capildeo family is an Indo-Trinidadian family of politicians and writers.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Fiji

Fiji (Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी), officially the Republic of Fiji (Matanitu Tugalala o Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी गणराज्य), is an island country in Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island.

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Gopaldas Neeraj

Gopaldas Saxena 'Neeraj (popularly known as Niraj or Neeraj) (born 4 January 1925) is a poet and author of Hindi literature.

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Guyana

Guyana (pronounced or), officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a sovereign state on the northern mainland of South America.

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Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Harivansh Rai Srivastava (27 November 1907 – 18 January 2003), known by his pen name Bachchan, was an Indian poet of the Nayi Kavita literary movement (romantic upsurge) of early 20th century Hindi literature.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent.

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Hindustani language

Hindustani (हिन्दुस्तानी, ہندوستانی, ||lit.

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Hindustani people

Hindustani people, or Hindavi people, are a panethnicity primarily living in the Hindi belt region of India, which is located in the Indus-Gangetic Plain of North India, between the Himalayas and the Vindhyas, identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian South Africans

Indian South Africans are citizens and residents of South Africa of Indian descent.

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Indians in Fiji

Indo-Fijians are Fiji citizens who are fully or partially of Indian descent, which includes descendants who trace their heritage from various parts of the Indian subcontinent.

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Indo-Aryan peoples

Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse Indo-European-speaking ethnolinguistic group of speakers of Indo-Aryan languages.

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Indo-Caribbeans

Indo-Caribbeans are Caribbean people with roots in the Indian subcontinent.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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Jainism

Jainism, traditionally known as Jain Dharma, is an ancient Indian religion.

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Jharkhand

Jharkhand (lit. "Bushland" or The land of forest) is a state in eastern India, carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000.

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Kailas Nath Kaul

Kailas Nath Kaul (1905–1983) was an Indian botanist, naturalist, agricultural scientist, horticulturist, herbalist, plant collector and herpetologist, and a world authority on Arecaceae.

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Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh (MP;; meaning Central Province) is a state in central India.

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Mahabir Prasad Asthana

Mahabir Prasad Asthana (1903 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India – 1976) was a freedom fighter and Congress Party leader.

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Mauritians of Indian origin

Mauritians of Indian origin, also known as Indo-Mauritians, are Mauritians whose ancestors are from the Indian subcontinent.

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Mauritius

Mauritius (or; Maurice), officially the Republic of Mauritius (République de Maurice), is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent.

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Mitrasen Yadav

Mitrasen Yadav (11 July 1934 – 7 September 2015) was an Indian politician.

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Mulayam Singh Yadav

Mulayam Singh Yadav (born 21 November 1939) is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh and the founder of the Samajwadi Party.

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Muzaffar Ali

Muzaffar Ali (born 21 October 1944), is an Indian filmmaker, fashion designer, poet, artist, music-lover, revivalist, and social worker.

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Narendra Deva

Acharya Narendra Dev (born on 30 October 1889 in Sitapur Uttar Pradesh) was one of the leading theorists of the Congress Socialist Party in India.

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Naushad

Naushad Ali (26 December 1919 – 5 May 2006) was an Indian music director for Hindi films.

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Nepal

Nepal (नेपाल), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल), is a landlocked country in South Asia located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

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Nepalis

Nepalis or Nepalese (नेपाली) also known as Gurkha or Gorkhali are citizens of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal under the provisions of Nepali nationality law.

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Nivedita Bhattacharya

Nivedita Bhattacharya is an Indian actress.

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Nivedita Tiwari

Nivedita Tiwari (born 24 November 1985) is an Indian actress best known for her role as Runjhun in Zee TV's Bhagonwali-Baante Apni Taqdeer.

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Pali Chandra

Pali Chandra (née Srivastava) is an internationally acclaimed Kathak dancer, choreographer, educationist, social activist and the artistic director of Gurukul Dubai.

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Panethnicity

Panethnicity is a political neologism used to group various ethnic groups together based on their related cultural origins; geographic, linguistic, religious, or 'racial' similarities are often used alone or in combination to draw panethnic boundaries.

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Piaa Bajpai

Pia Bajpai is an Indian film actress and model, who appears in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam,Hindi and English.

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Rudranath Capildeo

Dr. Rudranath Capildeo Ph.D. MP TC (2 February 1920 – 12 May 1970) was an Indo-Trinidadian politician and mathematician.

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Sarita Bhadauria

Sarita Bhadauria (born 4 January 1963) is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh.

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Satish Mishra

Satish Chandra Misra is an Indian politician who was the cabinet minister in Mayavati ministry in Uttar Pradesh, India, and a part of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). He is a lawyer by profession. He is a member of Rajya Sabha. He is now the All India General Secretary of Bahujan Samaj Party.

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Sehba Hussain

Sehba Hussain is an Indian social activist.

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Shiva Naipaul

Shiva Naipaul (25 February 1945 – 13 August 1985), born Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, was a Trinidadian and British novelist and journalist.

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Simbhoonath Capildeo

Simbhoonath Capildeo was born in 1914 and died in 1990 was a Trinidad and Tobago prominent Hindu politician and lawyer he was born in Chaguanas.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Suriname

Suriname (also spelled Surinam), officially known as the Republic of Suriname (Republiek Suriname), is a sovereign state on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America.

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Terai

The Terai (तराई तराइ) is a lowland region in southern Nepal and northern India that lies south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas, the Siwalik Hills, and north of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

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Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is a twin island sovereign state that is the southernmost nation of the West Indies in the Caribbean.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh (IAST: Uttar Pradeś) is a state in northern India.

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V. S. Naipaul

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "Vidia" Naipaul, TC (born 17 August 1932), is an Indo-Caribbean writer and Nobel Laureate who was born in Trinidad with British citizenship.

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Wahid Khan

Wahid Khan was an Indian surbahar and sitar player.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awadhi_people

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