Hindustani
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Hindustani means 'of Hindustan
Hindustan
Hindustan or Indostan, literal translation "Land of River Sindhu ", is one of the popular names of South Asia. It can also mean "the land of the Hindus"...

 (India)'. It may refer to:
  • the Hindustani language
    Hindustani language
    Hindi-Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language and the lingua franca of North India and Pakistan. It is also known as Hindustani , and historically, as Hindavi or Rekhta...

    , Hindi-Urdu
  • Hindustani (film), the Hindi version of the 1996 Tamil film Indian
  • Hindustani classical music
    Hindustani classical music
    Hindustani classical music is the Hindustani or North Indian style of Indian classical music found throughout the northern Indian subcontinent. The style is sometimes called North Indian Classical Music or Shāstriya Sangeet...

  • Hindustani people
    Hindustani people
    Hindustani people or Hindoostani people was a word often used in British India and also in 20th Century in India for the group of people whose native language was a variety of Hindi or persons using Hindustani language — mainly residing in present day Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh,...


See also

  • South Asian ethnic groups
    South Asian ethnic groups
    The ethno-linguistic composition of the population of South Asia, that is the nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka is highly diverse. The majority of the population fall within two large Linguistic groups, Indo-Aryan and Dravidian.These groups are further...

  • Hindoestanen
    Hindoestanen
    The Hindoestanen are an ethnic group of South Asian origin in the Netherlands and Suriname. After the Dutch government signed a treaty with the United Kingdom on the recruitment of contract workers, the Hindoestanen began migrating to Suriname in 1873 from what was then British India as indentured...

  • Hindustani Lal Sena
    Hindustani Lal Sena
    Hindustani Lal Sena - हिन्दुस्तानि लाल सेना , an anticolonial guerrilla group in India. It was formed on April 13, 1939 .It had been founded by netaji subhash chandra bose...

    , (Indian Red Army), formed 1939
  • Communist Ghadar Party of India
    Communist Ghadar Party of India
    The Communist Ghadar Party of India was founded on December 25, 1980, as a continuation of the Hindustani Ghadar Party - Organisation of Indian Marxist-Leninists Abroad founded in Canada in 1970. The group had established a presence in Punjab during the 1970s. Initially the group identified itself...

    , political group founded in 1970
  • Raja Hindustani
    Raja Hindustani
    The soundtrack was composed by Nadeem Shravan. It consisted of tracks like "Kinna Sona Tenu" which was based on a song with the same title by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and "Pardesi Pardesi" .- 1996 Filmfare Awards :Won* Filmfare...

     - a block-buster movie of 1996 starring Aamir Khan
    Aamir Khan
    Aamir Hussain Khan is an Indian film actor, director and producer who has established himself as one of the leading actors of Hindi cinema....

     and Karishma Kapoor.
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