On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:05 AM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 13 Jul 2012 9:34:32 pm Thaths wrote: > > Ummm. I thought the language of the Moghul court was Persian.... > You haven't been reading history have you? Naughty naughty. > > The court language and the language of the courtesans too perhaps was never > the language of education. It was madrassas and Arabic. >
Sanskrit and Arabic might have been studied (by a minority who could afford education) for liturgical purposes. But weren't the language of the bazaars the likes of Urdu, Hindustani, Bhojpuri, Awadhi, etc.? Thaths -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo! Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
