Urdu/Hindi: An Artificial Divide: African Heritage, Mesopotamian Roots, Indian Culture & Britiah Colonialism

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Algora Publishing, 2006 - Foreign Language Study - 400 pages
The lingua franca of the Indo-Pakistani people is one language, claims Khan, called Hindi when written in Nagari and Urdu when written in Arabic. He says it is not descended from Sanskrit, as conventionally believed, but is 10-12,000 years old and was influenced early by the Austric-Munda and Dravidian language families. Leaving aside any religious
 

Contents

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
Chapter V SanskritPrakrit and OldUrduHindi
109
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

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

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