How Indo-Persian, the language of cosmopolitan India for six centuries, fell into decline

“Indians have long lost fluency in Indo-Persian, Despite this, it is important to recognise that Indo-Persian is an integral part of our history. Refusing to engage with it means that India risks consigning to the dustbin an entire, sophisticated literary tradition, indigenous to this country. However, despite this decline, Indo-Persian themes and usage continue to resurface time and again – in modern religious writing and devotion, but also in Hindi film scripts, traditional weddings, classical and pop music and even in journalism.”

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