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{{short description|1884 Bhojpuri Play by Ramdatta Shukla}}

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| name = Devakshara Charita
| writer = Ramdatta Shukla
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| premiere = 1884
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| subject = Supremacy of Devanagari over Persian
| genre = [[Theatre]]
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'''Devakshara Charita''' or '''Devakshar Charitra''' ([[Bhojpuri language|Bhojpuri]]: 𑂠𑂵𑂫𑂰𑂍𑂹𑂓𑂩 𑂒𑂩𑂱𑂞; [[International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration|IAST]]: Devākṣarcarita; Transl.: ''The Character of the Divine Alphabet'') is a [[Bhojpuri literature|Bhojpuri play]] by Ramdatta Shukla which was written in 1884,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Grierson|first=G. A.|title=Linguistic Survey of India, Vol. V, Part II|publisher=|year=1903|isbn=|location=|pages=}}</ref> which is also considered as first published drama of Bhojpuri.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jain|first=Dinesh|title=The Indo-Aryan Languages|date=26 July 2007|publisher=|isbn=978-1135797119|location=|pages=519}}</ref> This play was written to emphasize the supremacy of the [[Devanagari]] script and to highlight the drawbacks of [[Persian alphabet|Urdu script]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|title=Bihar District Gazetteers: Shahabad|publisher=|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=130}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The Earliest Stage of Language Planning: The "first Congress" Phenomenon|publisher=|year=1993|isbn=3110135302|location=|pages=119|last1=Fishman|first1=Joshua A.}}</ref> It was written and published in 1884 from lite press, Varanasi.{{cn|date=August 2021}}

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