any one has read this book?
share your thoughts on this, if you like.
best,
Dushwari
The Politics of Language Urdu/Hindi: an artificial divide.
BY Dr. Jamil Khan In a blow against the British Empire, Dr. Khan suggests that London deliberately set India’s Hindu and Muslim populations against each other in the 1800s by artificially splitting their one language in two, then burying the evidence in obscure scholarly works outside the public view. 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.