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Uttar Pradesh Urdu Akademi also known as Uttar Pradesh Urdu Academy or Urdu Academy, Uttar Pradesh in the interest of developing the Urdu language and preserving the Urdu tradition and culture it was established in January 1972. It is under control of the Ministry of Minorities affairs. The then Uttar Pradesh government established this academy under registration of society's act with a motto of establishing an Urdu institution to look after the development of the Urdu language, literature, cultural heritage. This institution has compiled many programs in its fold for cultural and educational goals. Office of this academy is situated in Lucknow city.

Uttar Pradesh has had a long history of language and literature because it was the state of Hindu twin Sanskrit epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

Madhushala is a book of 135 "quatrains": verses of four lines (Ruba'i) by Hindi poet and writer Harivansh Rai Bachchan.

Banabhatta and Vyas are writers of Sanskrit literature. Baṇabhatta was a 7^th century Sanskrit prose writer and poet of India. He was the Asthana Kavi in the court of King Harsha Vardhana, who reigned c. 606 - 647 CE in north India first from Sthanvishvara (Thanesar), and later Kannauj. Bana's principal works include a biography of Harsha, the Harshacharita (Deeds of Harsha), and one of the world's earliest novels, Kadambari. Baṇa died before finishing the novel and it was completed by his son Bhusanabhatta. Both these works are noted texts of Sanskrit literature. Krishna Dvaipayana, better known as Vyasa or Vedavyasa, is a central and revered sage portrayed in most Hindu traditions. He is traditionally regarded as the author of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. He is also regarded by many Hindus as the compiler of a number of significant scriptures.

Modern Hindi is written in Devanagari script, which is made of two Sanskrit words: Deva, meaning 'God' and Nagari, meaning 'of urban origin'. Devanagari has its origin in Brahmi script.

Braj Bhasha, which was an important literary medium from the 15^th to the 19^th century, is often treated as a dialect of Hindi, as are Awadhi, Bagheli, Bhojpuri, Bundeli, Chhattisgarhi, Garhwali, Haryanawi, Kanauji, Kumayuni, Magahi and Marwari.

Mahadevi Verma, Jaishankar Prasad, Suryakant Tripathi Nirala and Sumitranandan Pant are prominent poets of Chhayavaad movement.

Godaan is a famous Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand. It was first published in 1936 and is considered one of the greatest Hindi novels of modern Indian literature. Themed around the socio-economic deprivation as well as the exploitation of the village poor, the novel was the last complete novel of Premchand. It has been translated into English in 1957 by Jai Ratan and Purushottama Lal as The Gift of a Cow. A 1968 translation by Gordon C. Roadarmel is now considered "a classic in itself".

Hindi literature includes literature in the various Hindi language which have writing systems. It is broadly classified into four prominent forms (styles) based on the date of production. They are:
• Vir-Gatha kal (poems extolling brave warriors) – 11^th - 14^th century
• Bhakti kal poems (devotional poems) – 14^th - 18^th century
• Riti or Shringar kal poems (poems of romance) – 18^th - 20^th century
• Adhunik kal (modern literature) – 20^th century onwards