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1 online resource (418 pages) |
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The politics of language Urdu/Hindi |
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Abbreviations; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Tables and Illustrations; Chapter I. Mesopotamian Roots and Language Classification; Chapter II. Phonetics, Linguistics and Genetics -- DNA; Chapter III. Middle East: Source of Semitic, Dravidian and Indo-European/Sanskrit; Chapter IV. Austric-Munda-Dravidian and Oldest Hindi/Urdu; Chapter V. Sanskrit-Prakrit and Old-Urdu/Hindi; Chapter VI. Arabic-Persian: New Substrates from the Middle East; Chapter VII. Language of Saints and Sultans; Chapter VIII. Secular Moghuls and Secular Language |
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Chapter IX. Urdu: Official Language of British IndiaChapter X. Hindi's Creator: British Bengal; Chapter XI. Partition of Language, Land, and Hearts; Chapter XII. Urdu through the 20th Century; Chapter XIII. Hindi's Evolution through the 20th Century; Chapter XIV. Urdu/Hindi: A Show Biz Power; Chapter XV. Urdu/Hindi of America and the World; Chapter XVI. Urdu/Hindi Scripts: Common Origin; Chapter XVII. Mesopotamian Realism and Re-Classification; Bibliogra |
| Summary |
Divide and Rule: the British imperial authorities in India declared that the Urdu spoken by the Muslims and the Hindi spoken by the Hindus were two distinct languages, but linguistic evolution theory and studies in fossil linguistics of the Middle East sh |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Urdu language -- History
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Urdu language -- Classification
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Hindi language -- History
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Hindi language -- Classification
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Hindi language.
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Urdu language.
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Languages & Literatures.
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Indo-Iranian Languages & Literatures.
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| Genre/Form |
Classification.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780875864396 |
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0875864392 |
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1281395641 |
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9781281395641 |
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