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Divide and rule the British were experts; and in creating out of one language the notion of a separate "Hindi" for Hindus in colonial India and "Urdu" for Muslims, they used even the definition of languages to set their colonial subjects against one another. Further, this language had its origin from Austric and Dravidian and not from the Indo-European Sanskrit, as is the dogma. In a blow against the British Empire, Khan suggests that London artificially divided India s Hindu and Muslim populations by splitting their one language in two, then burying the evidence in obscure scholarly works outside the public view. All language is political and so is the boundary between one language and another. The author analyzes the origins of Urdu, one of the earliest known languages, and propounds the iconoclastic views that,Hindi came from pre-Aryan Dravidian and Austric-Munda, not from Aryan s Sanskrit (which, like the Indo-European languages, Greek and Latin, etc., are rooted in the Middle East/Mesopotamia and not in Europe); Hindi s script came from the Aramaic system, similar to Greek, and In the 1800s, the British initiated the divisive game of splitting one language in two, Hindi (

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Author

Abdul Jamil Khan

Publisher

Algora Publishing

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780875864396

Category

history

Subjects

History, Language Learning, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.7 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14