No. Shiv is right. Mainstream (and, for Muslims, compulsory) education was in madrasahs, and started with Arabic. It was not exclusively Arabic, and study of Persian was taken up when the course of study defined demanded it.
Sent from my iPad On Jul 13, 2012, at 10:56 PM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
