नागरी प्रचारिणी सभा | |
 Emblem of Nagari Pracharini Sabha | |
| Abbreviation | NPS |
|---|---|
| Established | 16 July 1893 |
| Founder | Shyamsundar Das |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 25°19′11″N 83°00′54″E / 25.319619°N 83.015084°E |
Official language | Hindi |
President | Vyomesh Shukla |
Key people | Madan Mohan Malaviya, Bharatendu Harishchandra, Ramchandra Shukla, Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi, Grierson |
Publication | Hindi Literature |
The Nagari Pracharini Sabha (ISO: Nāgarī Pracāriṇī Sabhā lit. 'Society for Promotion of Nagari'), also known as Kashi Nagari Pracharini Sabha, is an organization founded in 1893 at the Queen's College, Varanasi for the promotion of the Devanagari script and the Hindi language. Currently, the organization operates two additional official branches, located in New Delhi and Haridwar.[a][1]
The organization played a pivotal role in promoting Khariboli for official and literary purposes, as well as in documenting and printing the existing literature of Braj Bhasha and Awadhi by locating and preserving manuscripts.[2][3]
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- ^ Mehrotra, R. R. (1993). Fishman (ed.). The First Congress of Hindi. pp. 117–128.
- ^ Mehta, Naresh (1996). Hindī Sāhitya Sammelan kā Itihās. Allahabad: Hindi Sahitya Sammelan. pp. 46–48.
- ^ Schomer, Karine (1982). Mahadevi Varma and the Chhayavad Age of Modern Hindi Poetry. University of California Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0520042551.
The Nagari Pracharini Sabha was a scholarly organization, primarily concerned with the collection and editing of medieval texts, and was only marginally interested in modern literature.