Kaithi

Kaithi, also called "Kayathi" or "Kayasthi", is the name of a historical script used widely in parts of North India, primarily in the former North-Western Provinces, Awadh and Bihar. It was used for writing legal, administrative, and private records.

Etymology

Kaithi script derives its name from the word Kayastha, a social group of India that traditionally consists of administrators and accountants. The Kayastha community was closely associated with the princely courts and colonial governments of North India, and were employed by them to write and maintain records of revenue transactions, legal documents, and title deeds; general correspondence; and proceedings of the royal courts and related bodies. The script used by them acquired the name Kaithi.

History

Documents in Kaithi are traceable to at least the 16th century. The script was widely used during the Mughal period. In the 1880s, during the British Raj, the script was recognized as the official script of the law courts of Bihar. Although in general, Kaithi was much more widely used than Devanagari in some areas, it later on lost its popularity to the other officially-recognized scripts.

Kaithi (Unicode block)

Kaithi is a Unicode block containing characters historically used for writing Bhojpuri, Magahi, Awadhi, Maithili, Urdu, and other Hindi-related languages of the Bihar/Uttar Pradesh area of northern India.

References

Kaithi (film)

Kaithi (English: Prisoner) is a 1951 black-and-white Tamil thriller and suspense film was directed by S. Balachandar and Produced by Jupiter M. Somasundaram under his Jupiter Pictures. The film script were written by S. Balachandar and with assistant N. Seetharaman and dialogue written by Venkatasamy, Kalaimani and N. Seetharaman. Music by S. Balachandar assets to the movie. The film starring S. Balachandar , S. A. Natarajan , Revathi and meenakshi played lead role to protagonist with G. M. Bhaseer, M. K. Mustafa, R. Malathy. the film was inspired from Hollywood super star and cult figure Humphrey Bogart's movie Dark Passage (film)(1947) was an usual movie. The story line of convict escaping to prove his innocence was adapted by the sadly under rated genius of the South Indian Fine Arts world Sundaram Balachandar. This film was success when crime thriller were not many in Tamil Cinema.

Plot

In this story, good samaritan offers to help the hero an unemployed graduate whome he meets at a race course. Betting on a tip - off giving by him, the hero makes a lot of money and when he goes to give it back to the kind man, the latter is found murdered in his car. The hero Vijayan(S. Balachandar) is accused of the crime and sent to prison. How he escapes and successfully seeks the killer Vijayasaradi(S. A. Natarajan), whose daughter falls in love with the hero forms the result of the plot. There were two girls Kamala(Revathi) and Revathi(Meenakshi) falling for the same man. In an interesting twist to the story, his girl friend offers Vijayan a hideout in her family garage. Talking him food and such regularly though both are unaware that the killer is the girl's father Vijayasaradhi.