Persian influence greatly increased with the Mughals, but the pronounced Persian element in Hindavi (the ancestor of Hindi) dates back to at least the Dehli Sultanate, as demonstrated by the surviving poetry of Amīr Khusrow Dehlawī.
As I was just telling a friend over the weekend, there are no neat dividing lines in the histories of languages. Moreover, modern narratives tend to adopt a telistic fallacy, framing the entire linguistic history of India as if the ultimate goal was to create and adopt native vernaculars and the near-millennium of Persian's presence as a prestige variety was some sort of intrusive anomaly.
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Date: 2008-11-24 03:41 pm (UTC)As I was just telling a friend over the weekend, there are no neat dividing lines in the histories of languages. Moreover, modern narratives tend to adopt a telistic fallacy, framing the entire linguistic history of India as if the ultimate goal was to create and adopt native vernaculars and the near-millennium of Persian's presence as a prestige variety was some sort of intrusive anomaly.