UPHESC Assistant Professor Hindi 2025 PYQs

Concept: LILA (Learn Indian Languages through Artificial intelligence) Hindi Prabodh, Praveen, Pragya – self-learning packages for teaching Hindi, from the Rajbhasha Vibhag.

1. Prabodh, Praveen, Pragya are the three graded Hindi teaching courses.

Short trick: LILA = Learn Hindi (Prabodh–Praveen–Pragya).

Concept: Unicode stands for a Universal (unique, uniform) character code – one standard for all scripts of the world.

1. It is 'universal' because it covers all writing systems; 'unit/unit digital code' are not expansions.

Short trick: Unicode = Universal code.

Concept: The Guru Gorakshnath Samman (₹5 lakh, for work on Adikal literature) for 2021 went to Dr. Kanhaiya Singh (Azamgarh); it was announced in June 2022.

1. Hindustani Academy's top all-India awards: Guru Gorakshnath (Adikal), Goswami Tulsidas (Bhaktikal), Sant Kabir.

Short trick: Gorakshnath = Adikal award → Kanhaiya Singh (2021).

Concept: Hindi Sahitya Akademi Award 2021: Daya Prakash Sinha for the play 'Samrat Ashok'.

1. 2019 Nand Kishore Acharya, 2020 Anamika, 2021 Daya Prakash Sinha; Ramdarash Mishra got it in 2015.

Short trick: 2019-20-21: Acharya – Anamika – Sinha.

Concept: Nagari Pracharini Sabha, Kashi was founded on 16 July 1893 by Shyamsundar Das, Ramnarayan Mishra and Shivkumar Singh.

1. It produced the Hindi Shabdasagar and the search for Hindi manuscripts.

Short trick: 1893 – three students of Queen's College, Varanasi.

Concept: Dr. Rameshchandra Mishra, a scholar of Nirgun Sant poetry, compiled the 'Sant-Sahitya-Sandarbh Kosh'.

1. Vidyaniwas Mishra – lalit nibandh; Vishwanath Prasad Mishra – Riti literature (Bihari, Ghananand); Krishnavihari Mishra – lalit nibandh/journalism.

Short trick: Sant kosh → Rameshchandra Mishra (Sant scholar).

Concept: Kunwar Narayan: Sahitya Akademi (1995, 'Koi Doosra Nahin'), Vyas Samman (1995) and Jnanpith (2005).

1. Dinkar died in 1974; Vyas Samman began in 1991.
2. Bhisham Sahni – no Jnanpith; Naresh Mehta – Sahitya Akademi and Jnanpith but not Vyas.

Short trick: Kunwar Narayan – all three (Vyas came in 1995 with Akademi).

Concept: Hindustani Academy, Allahabad (Prayagraj) was established in 1927 (U.P. Government) to promote Hindi and Urdu.

1. It publishes the journal 'Hindustani'.

Short trick: Hindustani Academy = 1927.

Concept: Kendriya Hindi Sansthan (founded 1960/61, Ministry of Education) has its headquarters at Agra.

1. Regional centres: Delhi, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Shillong, Mysuru, Dimapur, Bhubaneswar, Ahmedabad.

Short trick: Kendriya Hindi Sansthan = Agra.

Concept: Bharat Bharati Samman is the highest award of the Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan.

1. Vyas and Saraswati Samman are given by the K.K. Birla Foundation; Jnanpith by the Bharatiya Jnanpith.

Short trick: UP Hindi Sansthan → Bharat Bharati.

Concept: Webdunia, the first Hindi web portal, was launched from Indore on 23 September 1999.

1. It was started by Vinay Chhajlani (Nai Dunia group).

Short trick: Webdunia = 1999 (Nai Dunia, Indore).

Concept: Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha was founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1918 (Madras/Chennai).

1. Its first pracharak was Devdas Gandhi.
2. 1936 – Rashtrabhasha Prachar Samiti, Wardha.

Short trick: Gandhi 1918 Chennai; Wardha 1936.

Concept: 'Gaveshana' is the research journal of the Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Agra.

1. Hindustani Academy – 'Hindustani'; UP Hindi Sansthan – 'Sahitya Bharati'; Sahitya Akademi – 'Samkaleen Bharatiya Sahitya'.

Short trick: Gaveshana (research) = Agra.

Concept: 'Vani' means the sayings of Nirgun saints; 'Vani-Sahitya ka Itihas' is by Dr. Rameshchandra Mishra, scholar of Sant literature.

1. Rameshchandra Shah – novelist/essayist; Paramanand Shrivastava – modern poetry critic.

Short trick: Sant 'vani' → Rameshchandra Mishra.

Concept: Bisaldev Raso (Narpati Nalh) is a lyrical viraha/love poem about Bisaldev and Rajmati.

1. Khuman Raso, Prithviraj Raso – heroic (vir) with love episodes.
2. Kirtilata – praise of Kirti Singh (vir/historical).

Short trick: Bisaldev = Rajmati's viraha (like a barahmasa).

Concept: Dr. Ramswaroop Chaturvedi called Chhayavad 'shakti kavya' (poetry of power/energy).

1. Other views: Shukla – 'shaili-vishesh'; Nagendra – 'sthool ke prati sookshm ka vidroh'; Namvar – 'rashtriya jagaran ki kavyatmak abhivyakti'.

Short trick: Ramswaroop → 'shakti kavya'.

Concept: Dr. George Bühler, on finding 'Prithviraj Vijay' (Kashmir, 1875), first declared Prithviraj Raso unhistorical.

1. Later Kaviraj Shyamaldas, Gaurishankar Ojha, Shukla also called it unhistorical.
2. James Tod treated it as history; Nahta held it partly authentic.

Short trick: Bühler + Prithviraj Vijay (1875) = first doubt.

Concept: Acharya Ramchandra Shukla (Hindi Sahitya ka Itihas, on Bihari): 'यदि प्रबंधकाव्य एक विस्तृत वनस्थली है तो मुक्तक एक चुना हुआ गुलदस्ता है।'

1. Shukla also said Bihari's dohas are 'chhote-chhote ras ke chhinte'.
2. He used it to praise Bihari's compression in muktak.

Short trick: Vanasthali vs guldasta = Shukla on Bihari.

Concept: Ashtachhap: Surdas, Kumbhandas, Paramanand Das, Krishnadas (Vallabhacharya's disciples) + Nanddas, Chaturbhujdas, Chhitswami, Govindswami (Vitthalnath's disciples).

1. Dharmdas was a disciple of Kabir (Nirgun Sant), founder of the Chhattisgarhi branch of Kabirpanth.

Short trick: 'Sur-Kumbhan-Paramanand-Krishna; Nand-Chaturbhuj-Chhit-Govind'.

Concept: George A. Grierson held that Bhakti arose under Christian influence (via Nestorian Christians in South India).

1. Shukla – reaction of a defeated people (Islamic rule).
2. Hazari Prasad Dwivedi – natural development of Indian thought ('bijli ki chamak ki tarah').

Short trick: Grierson = Christian; Shukla = hatasha; Dwivedi = Indian tradition.