English-Hindustani Vocabulary
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- ISBN 9788119953158
- Dimensions: 170 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2023
- Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
- Publication City/Country: IN
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English, Hindi
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Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, was one of the most popular language during the eighteenth century. It is widely spoken in Northern India, Deccan, and parts of Pakistan. It retained its grammar and core vocabulary of the then-medieval Delhi province dialects with Persian, Arabic, and Turkic words. This language was developed as the result of linguistic diversity during the Muslim hegemony in India. Hindustani was further developed during the British era. Even, the father of the Indian nation, Mahatma Gandhi, also favoured Hindustani as the language of India. But today, it is generally associated with the language spoken by North Indian and Deccani Muslims.
D.C. Phillot (1860-1930) was a British army officer, who served in India and as a Consul in Persia. He was a scholar of Persian, Urdu, and Hindustani dialects, and also an enthusiast of falconry. He has published works such as The Adventures of Haji Baba of Ispahan; The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri: A Persian Treatise on Falconry;
