On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The hindi dialects in several places (cities such as hyderabad and lucknow)
> that have a largely mixed population are heavily urdu flavored compared to
> the hindi spoken in some other places, so there's a geographic / locational
> element as well.

Urdu didn't evolve as a single language, Urdu is the language that
came out of the later mixed blood Mughals in India who could no longer
entirely or conveniently trace their tongue back to Persia or Turkey
or thereabouts.

The court affairs of the Mughal emperors till the last one, Bahadur
Shah Zafar were conducted in Persian, and Ghalib, the famous poet
refused to write couplets in Urdu initially, deeming it too lower
class since he drew parental lineage from Genghis Khan and Tamur Lane
(as did Babur, and every chest thumping Mughal - no one wants to be
descended from any lesser source it seems). However he did indeed
compose Urdu couplets since he also loved the language on merit,
beautiful ones too, but when a friend from Lucknow urged him to recite
them in Lucknow he refused on the grounds that Lucknowis will never
understand the Urdu of the streets of Delhi.

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