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Myths about Urdu(Comments Off)

December 24, 2009

‘Modern Hindi was created by weeding out Persian and Arabic words and using only the Devanagari script for writing. These new languages, Sanskritised Hindi and Persianised Urdu, drifted apart from each other and still serve as identity markers for Hindu and Muslim nationalism in South Asia.’[...]

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