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Com. Duane, I think you had sent a private message. Because there is nothing private about the message, I am forwarding it to marxmail, with my response. Pardon me for doing it, without your permission. Many of the artists - poets, actors (Raj kapoor, Dev Anand etc., Dilip Kumar) were from the Pakistani region and settled in Bombay at the time of division of India into Pakistan and India. So naturally, early Indian films were mostly in Urdu. Contrary to what you had expressed, Urdu was not encouraged by the British colonial rulers. The imposed English on Indians. Urdu is a language spoken by the people of undivided North-West India and can not be identified with a particular religion. But the word Urdu is derived from the same Turkic word ordu (army) that has given English horde. (Urdu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). It is also said that the origin of the word "Urdu" is from "Urta", meaning 'tent' in Central Asia. The Moghuls are of Central Asian origin, and when they occupied the regions north of Delhi in the 11th and 12th centuries, the invading armies were speaking Persian and Central Asian languages and the locals were spaeking a proto-Hindi which descended from Prakrit and Sanskrit. A new language evolved in the process, Hindusthani or the language of India. The language spoken by most of the people of Northern India (Except ofcourse, Bengal, Gujarat and maharashtra and some other regions) was called Hindi and in the North-West, it is Urdu. Urdu was the official language of the Mughal Rulers. Urdu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Urdu (/ˈʊərduː/; Urdu: اُردُو ALA-LC: Urdū; IPA: [ˈʊrd̪uː] ( listen)), or more precisely Modern Standard Urdu, is a standardized register of the Hindustani languag... View on en.wikipedia.org Preview by Yahoo Even today, most of top actors of Bollywood are muslims (Shahrukh Khan, Salmaan Khan, Aamir Khan among others), but Indian film industry remains free from religious fundamentalism and projects religious harmony and brotherhood. Anyway, language has no religion and Urdu is our Indian language, and we are proud of it. Though my mother tongue is Telugu and I also speak Hindi, besides English, I had cultivated a bit of Urdu from many of my muslim friends and we together enjoy Urdu poetry occassionally. Urdu is a beautiful language, highly expressive and poetic. Words in Urdu carry deep magical meanings and may be that is the reason why Urdu poetry is so enchanting. Vijaya Kumar Marla On Saturday, October 18, 2014 10:09 PM, Duane Filan <filan2...@yahoo.com> wrote: hi you wrote 'Most of Bollywood films and songs up to the 70's were in Urdu language' I liked all six of your poetic flashes. What language are Bollywood films in now, and why the change? wiki - Urdu is historically associated with the Muslims and received patronage under the British Raj today, I learned the origin of your name and ideas, and what the actors are saying on the television at my favorite 'east indian ' restaurant out here, on the west coast of Canada and the british empire. The owner is Sikh, as are most of the indian diasparites living here. 30 years ago 2 of them blew up an air india plane. 30 years ago, Sikhs working in the fields as farm labourers were a common sight. Now, these people are retired and their sons and daughters work in high tech and have fist fights over whether there should be chairs in their mini golden temple. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4lXXRlUiUJA wiki - The Vijayanagara Empire gained dominance from 1336 to the late 17th century, reaching its peak in the 16th century, when Telugu literature experienced what is considered its Golden Age. The Vijayanagara Empire created an epoch in South Indian history that transcended regionalism by promoting Hinduism as a unifying factor. me - before independence, congress party hindu chauvinists claiming to represent all Indians, imposed this archaic idea on the religious minorities, leading to the break up of india - with a little help from the british, of course. bye VANCOUVER April 6, 2013— Some of Bollywood’s biggest celebrities have descended on Vancouver for the Times of India Film Awards. The province spent $11 million to host and promote the weekend events, according to a Ministry of Tourism news release, which called the cost money well spent. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com