yan Deginner’s hindi script “vy gs reading and writing { | learn to write, step by step undersiand the script in diferamt coments «get a headstant in learning the language be with teach yoursalfFor UK order enquiries: please contact Bookpoint Ltd, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4SB. Telephone: +44 (0) 1235 827720, Fax: +44 (0) 1235 400454. Lines are open 9,00-18.00, Monday to Saturday, with a 24-hour massage answering service. You can also order through our website www.madaboutbooks.com For USA order enquiries: please contact McGraw-Hill Customer Services, P.O. Box 545, Blacklick, OH 43004-0545, USA. Telephone: 1-800-722-4726. Fax: 1-614-755-5645. For Canada order enquiries: please contact McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd, 300 Water St, Whitby, Ontario L1N 9B6, Canada. ‘Telephone: 905 430 5000. Fax: $05 430 5020. Long renowned as the authoritative source for self-guided learning ~ with more than 30 million coples sold worldwide ~ the Teach Yourself series includes over 300 titles in the fields of languages, crafts, hobbies, business, computing and education. British Library Cataloguing in in Publication Data. a catalogue entry for this thie's available from The British Library. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number. On tile First published in UK 2000 by Hodder Headline Ltd, 338 Euston Road, London, NWT 3BH, First published in US 2000 by Contemporary Books, a Divislon ‘of The McGraw Hill Companies, 1 Prudential Plaza, 130 East Randolph Street, Chicago, IL 60601 USA. This edition published 2003. The ‘Teach Yourself’ name Is a registered trade mark of Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Copyright © 2000, 2003 Rupert Snett in UK: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced os transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, Including photocopy, tecording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher or under licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited. Further details of such licences (for reprographic reproduction) may be obtained from the Copyright teensy Agency Limited, of 90 Tottenham Court Road, London in US. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of Contemporary Books. Printed in Great Britain for Hodder & Stoughton Educational, a division of Hodder Headline Ltd, 338 Euston Road, London NW1 BH by Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading, Berkshire. Impression number = 10987654321 Year 2007 2006 2005 2004 21Acknowledgements 1 am grateful to Lucy Rosenstein, Christopher Shackle and Emma Back for their comments on an earlier draft of this book. My thanks also to Amrik Kalsi, Aishvarj Kumar, Sanjukta Ghosh, Navnidhi Kaur, Urvi Mukhopadhyay, and Nilanjan Sarkar, for supplying examples of hand- written Devanagari; and to Usha and Renuka Madan for the anecdote appearing in Appendix I. The Hindi font used here is ‘Jaisalmer’, designed for the Apple Macintosh by Professor K.E. Bryant of the University of British Columbia; the Roman font with Indic diacritical marks is “Normyn’, devised by Mr K.R. Norman of the University of Cambridge. Books on Hindi by the same author Teach Yourself Hindi (with Simon Weightman), revised edition, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2000. Hindi and Urdu since 1800: a Common Reader (with Christopher Shackle), London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1990; also Delhi, Heritage, 1990. The Hindi Classical Tradition: a Braj Bhasa Reader, London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1991; also Delhi, Heritage, 1992.