Urdu/Hindi: An Artificial Divide: African Heritage, Mesopotamian Roots, Indian Culture & Britiah ColonialismIn 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, 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 (for the Hindus) and Urdu (for the Muslims). These facts, he says, have been buried and nearly lost in turgid academic works. Khan bolsters his hypothesis with copious technical linguistic examples. This may spark a revolution in linguistic history! Urdu/Hindi: An Artificial Divide integrates the out of Africa linguistic evolution theory with the fossil linguistics of Middle East, and discards the theory that Sanskrit descended from a hypothetical proto-IndoEuropean language and by degeneration created dialects, Urdu/Hindi and others. It shows that several tribes from the Middle East created the hybrid by cumulative evolution. The oldest groups, Austric and Dravidian, starting 8000 B.C. provided the grammar/syntax plus about 60% of vocabulary, S.K.T. added 10% after 1500 B.C. and Arabic/Persian 20-30% after A.D. 800. The book reveals Mesopotamia as the linguistic melting pot of Sumerian, Babylonian, Elamite, Hittite-Hurrian-Mitanni, etc., with a common script and vocabularies shared mutually and passed on to I.E., S.K.T., D.R., Arabic and then to Hindi/Urdu; in fact the author locates oldest evidence of S.K.T. in Syria. The book also exposes the myths of a revealed S.K.T. or Hebrew and the fiction of linguistic races, i.e. Aryan, Semitic, etc. The book supports the one world concept and reveals the potential of Urdu/Hindi to unite all genetic elements, races and regions of the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent. This is important reading not only for those interested to understand the divisive exploitation of languages in British-led India's partition, but for those interested in: - The science and history of origin of Urdu/Hindi (and other languages) - The false claims of linguistic races and creation - History of Languages and Scripts - Language, Mythology and Racism - Ancient History and Fossil Languages - British Rule and India's Partition. |
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... Aligarh Alumni Association AMU - Aligarh Muslim University BJP - Bhartiya Janta Party DC - Delhi College DED - Dravidian Etymological Dictionary Desi - term for person from Indian subcontinent EIC - viii Urdu/Hindi: An Artificial Divide.
... Aligarh Alumni Association AMU - Aligarh Muslim University BJP - Bhartiya Janta Party DC - Delhi College DED - Dravidian Etymological Dictionary Desi - term for person from Indian subcontinent EIC - viii Urdu/Hindi: An Artificial Divide.
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... HINDI 4.16 DRAVIDIAN VERBS IN URDU 4.17 SOUND WORDS ( ONOMATOPOEIA ) 4.18 MUNDRAVI - PROTO - URDU 4.19 CHAPTER SUMMARY CHAPTER V. SANSKRIT - PRAKRIT AND OLD - URDU / HINDI 100 105 106 107 108 109 5.0 INTRODUCTION 109 5.1 WRITTEN ...
... HINDI 4.16 DRAVIDIAN VERBS IN URDU 4.17 SOUND WORDS ( ONOMATOPOEIA ) 4.18 MUNDRAVI - PROTO - URDU 4.19 CHAPTER SUMMARY CHAPTER V. SANSKRIT - PRAKRIT AND OLD - URDU / HINDI 100 105 106 107 108 109 5.0 INTRODUCTION 109 5.1 WRITTEN ...
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... HINDI 13.4 MODERN HINDI POETRY 301 301 13.4.1 RECENT POETRY 306 13.5 HINDI PROSE 308 13.6 PROSE LITERATURE ( LIFE - OF - MIND PROSE ) 309 13.7 MUSLIMS ' HINDI 310 13.8 ISLAMIC CREDENTIAL OF HINDI 310 13.8.1 HINDI'S RELIGIOUS ISLAMIC ...
... HINDI 13.4 MODERN HINDI POETRY 301 301 13.4.1 RECENT POETRY 306 13.5 HINDI PROSE 308 13.6 PROSE LITERATURE ( LIFE - OF - MIND PROSE ) 309 13.7 MUSLIMS ' HINDI 310 13.8 ISLAMIC CREDENTIAL OF HINDI 310 13.8.1 HINDI'S RELIGIOUS ISLAMIC ...
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... Hindi, the lingua franca of the Indo-Pakistani people, is the story of one language with two separate scripts and with two names: Hindi, when written in Nagari, and Urdu, when written in Arabic. This book is thorough, com- plete, and ...
... Hindi, the lingua franca of the Indo-Pakistani people, is the story of one language with two separate scripts and with two names: Hindi, when written in Nagari, and Urdu, when written in Arabic. This book is thorough, com- plete, and ...
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... Hindi, English, Persian, Arabic, and some SKT before engaging in this effort. Acquiring the requisite knowledge in ... Hindi,” Urdu's earlier name, coined by a Muslim poet in the 13th century. Chapter XII deals with modern Urdu, and ...
... Hindi, English, Persian, Arabic, and some SKT before engaging in this effort. Acquiring the requisite knowledge in ... Hindi,” Urdu's earlier name, coined by a Muslim poet in the 13th century. Chapter XII deals with modern Urdu, and ...
Contents
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Chapter IV AustricMundaDravidian and Oldest HindiUrdu | 83 |
Chapter V SanskritPrakrit and OldUrduHindi | 109 |
Table of Contents | xi |
Foreword | 3 |
Acknowledgments | 9 |
List of Tables and Illustrations | 11 |
Chapter I Mesopotamian Roots and Language Classification | 13 |
Chapter II Phonetics Linguistics and Genetics DNA | 33 |
Source of Semitic Dravidian and IndoEuropeanSanskrit | 59 |
Chapter IV AustricMundaDravidian and Oldest HindiUrdu | 83 |
New Substrates from the Middle East | 133 |
Chapter VII Language of Saints and Sultans | 153 |
Chapter VIII Secular Moghuls and Secular Language | 171 |
Official Language of British India | 197 |
British Bengal | 225 |
Chapter XI Partition of Language Land and Hearts | 253 |
Chapter XII Urdu through the 20th Century | 275 |
Chapter XIII Hindis Evolution through the 20th Century | 295 |
A Show Biz Power | 315 |
Chapter XV UrduHindi of America and the World | 333 |
Common Origin | 347 |
Chapter XVII Mesopotamian Realism and ReClassification | 363 |
Bibliography | 389 |
Index | 397 |
The Politics of Language | v |
Abbreviations | vii |
Chapter V SanskritPrakrit and OldUrduHindi | 109 |
New Substrates from the Middle East | 133 |
Chapter VII Language of Saints and Sultans | 153 |
Chapter VIII Secular Moghuls and Secular Language | 171 |
Official Language of British India | 197 |
British Bengal | 225 |
Chapter XI Partition of Language Land and Hearts | 253 |
Chapter XII Urdu through the 20th Century | 275 |
Chapter XIII Hindis Evolution through the 20th Century | 295 |
A Show Biz Power | 315 |
Chapter XV UrduHindi of America and the World | 333 |
Common Origin | 347 |
Chapter XVII Mesopotamian Realism and ReClassification | 363 |
Bibliography | 389 |
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