In a blow against the British Empire; Khan suggests that London artificially divided India’s Hindu and Muslim populations by splitting their one language in two; then burying the evidence in obscure scholarly works outside the public view. All language is political — and so is the boundary between one language and another. The author analyzes the origins of Urdu; one of the earliest known languages; and propounds the iconoclastic views that; Hindi came from pre-Aryan Dravidian and Austric-Munda; not from Aryan’s Sanskrit (which; like the Indo-European languages; Greek and Latin; etc.; are rooted in the Middle East/Mesopotamia and not in Europe); Hindi’s script came from the Aramaic system; similar to Greek; and In the 1800s; the British initiated the divisive game of splitting one language in two; Hindi (for the Hindus) and Urdu (for the Muslims). These facts; he says; have been buried and nearly lost in turgid academic works. Khan bolsters his hypothesis with copious technical linguistic examples. This may spark a revolution in linguistic history! Urdu/Hindi: An Artificial Divide integrates the “out of Africa†linguistic evolution theory with the fossil linguistics of Middle East; and discards the theory that Sanskrit descended from a hypothetical proto-IndoEuropean language and by degeneration created dialects; Urdu/Hindi and others. It shows that several tribes from the Middle East created the hybrid by cumulative evolution. The oldest groups; Austric and Dravidian; starting 8000 B.C. provided the grammar/syntax plus about 60% of vocabulary; SKT added 10% after 1500 B.C. and Arabic/Persian 20-30% after A.D. 800. The book reveals Mesopotamia as the linguistic melting pot of Sumerian; Babylonian; Elamite; Hittite-Hurrian-Mitanni; etc.; with a common script and vocabularies shared mutually and passed on to IE; SKT; DR; Arabic and then to Hindi/Urdu; in fact the author locates oldest evidence of SKT in Syria. The book also exposes the myths of a “revealed†SKT or Hebrew and the fiction of linguistic races; i.e. Aryan; Semitic; etc. The book supports the “one world concept†and reveals the potential of Urdu/Hindi to unite all genetic elements; races and regions of the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent. This is important reading not only for those interested to understand the divisive exploitation of languages in British-led India’s partition; but for those interested in - The science and history of origin of Urdu/Hindi (and other languages) - The false claims of “linguistic races and creation†- History of Languages and Scripts - Language; Mythology and Racism - Ancient History and Fossil Languages - British Rule and India’s Partition
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