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General Rules

1. Personal names and place names are printed without diacritics; Tulsidas and Banaras. This applies as well to languages and scripts.

2. Diacritics are retained in book titles and newspaper names: Kalyan[*] (magazine), Bharat[*]durdasha[*] (play).

3. Social and political movements, societies, festivals, months, places (e.g., of worship), and castes are in roman type, with an initial capital letter and diacritics: Sankat[*] Mochan Temple, Sanatan[*] Dharm movement.

4. All other words not listed in Webster's Third Edition are in italics, with diacritics and no initial capital letters: rasdhari[*] , akhara[*] .


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