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Where, when and how did Urdu originate? Write a short answer of not more than 200 words. (1985)

  • UPSC 1985
  • Society, Culture and Economy in the 13th and 14th Centuries

Urdu is best understood not as a single act of invention but as the product of a linguistic fusion set in motion by the founding of the Delhi Sultanate in the early thirteenth century, when a Persian-speaking Turkish ruling elite settled amid a Delhi-region population speaking Khari Boli, Braj Bhasha, Haryanvi and Punjabi. The word…

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