It was Wali, the Deccani (1667-1707) who started writing poetry in the local language but with large number of Farsi words. It was a transition from Farsi, the literary language of the elites of Delhi. Wali Deccany is called the Chaucer of Urdu poetry.

 The word Hindi was used the describe the language of Hind. Word Urdu did not come into use until 1645 and quite a few of the Urdu poets called their language Hindi.  All through this time, Hindi with Sankrit words continued to be used. It was around 1850, that the word Hindi was dropped for what is called Urdu.  

Amir Khusro's writings are termed Urdu. Look at his work that you can find on the web, and then tell me it is not Hindi and that he should not have used Sanskrit words.  

Hindi, as spoken on Radio, is widely understood in India by ordinary people, although I understand that young urban English-speaking elite have some problem following it.  

Hindi is world's second or third most spoken language, with a rich history. Please do not work to deny it its rightful place in the world.   India has many great languages. They deserve to florish. The propaganda declaring them to be inferior ought to stop.  

Yashwant

Good points . Tamil should be one of the link languages
along with Hindi/Urdu and English..

My dear Yashwant,
 
  Very weak defense. You are doing well, product of English speaking rulers? The linguistic division of India was a bad idea and rot started under that system. Cowbeltwallahs such as yourself ditched English for a phony baloney, concocted Sanskritized version of Urdu. They are bastardizing queen's English by the same jingoistic rule.

The so-called "Hinglish, "Maringlish, "Kanninglish, " Taminglish," Benginglish," and host of native languages is a testimony of people making up a language as they go, in the market place rather than in the bureaucratic committees set up to make the government's version of that language as a standard. No one cares for such domineering attitude of "maabaap sarkar," butting in where their butt heads are least welcome.

The state, as in government, elected by the people should care for the people, the source of power under the democratic form of government. India is said to have one such constitutionally secure democracy. I disagree but that is for later. People speak what they feel like and get their job done. Bombay, filmy, Bollywood Hindi is so strong that north Indians find it convenient to leave their pure Hindi language back home and speak in Bollindi instead.

The Times of India came with their Hindi version called Navabharat Times. The initial editorial staff must be recruited from the cowbeltwallahs. All is fine and dandy as long as ad space was sold to bear the cost of production. No ads of any kind. The Advertising world had to hire brother-in-laws of the editors and Hindi professors to do the translations of English advertising copy. It came so outrageous that people had to find the same professors to explain what they were talking about. Horrible is the word but I would say I did not see any parallel.

Kanhaiyalal (Kanu) Munshi ran a Hinduttva racket with his 'Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan,' at Chowpaty, Bombay. College, Book publishing, research, public hall, and all. The same case in his little fiefdom. The Kashi Brahmins ran Readers Digest like Navanit. The stories and other tidbits came from holy Hindu Kashi and not from Dharavi, the worse slum of Bombay. It looked nice but had constant problem with readership. He should have imported some Benares Hindu University's chaddiwallahs to buy and read those monsters.

The mushrooming industry in Marathi, however did not ask or receive any state or Kanu Munshi like patronage. Marathis are poor people and not much clout either. Couple of Marathi newspapers owned and operated by Marwari industrialists in their abandoned cotton mills, fewer weeklies and couple, three Marathi magazines at the time of independence.

That sucker, publishing industry, is growing like wild cactus with no end in sight. The reason is simple. Many made a go and vanished from the radar. Many more survived in the niche market. The popular ones became tigers bringing the whiz bang technology, color and slick art paper for cover as well as inside pages.

What is the key to their success? The market savvy. What market demanded, these publications provided with pomp and panache of a royal procession. Your historical proof is hysterical. The history is not a dead animal like Sanskrit. It regenerates, takes different form and adjusts to the day, nay, hour and minute of the day. Too much future shock for cowbeltwallahs logic of state sponsorship, I guess.

The book publication in Maharashtra is so robust that it may one day surpass the traditionally strong local markets such as Bengal, the land of armchair pundits, commies and poets galore, literature freaks. Who buys all that junk? It is mostly junk but people must be served not served heavy handed concocted linguistic material to chew. Only chew as they cannot swallow and digest the chaste cowbeltwallahs standard Hindi.

Most all Sanskrit publications, just books and religious material used to be printed and sold by banias with Brahmins leaning heavily on their susceptibilities. Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwar, a noble prince established such publishing and research house in Baroda, Gujarat. Some fancy and innovative products were produced with meticulous details, no typos of any kind. I picked up whatever copies they had at the publishers prices. It means for few rupees, less than ten a piece as the books were being destroyed by elements and cost of holding them was getting out of hand.

Whereas book publishers of other Sanskrit titles like Motilal Banarasidas were putting new stickers on the old prices and charging twice to four times the publisher's price. The marketing savvy of bunch of Jains, no Hindus, is what is keeping Sanskrit publishing humming. The Delhi based publishers have opened up branches all over India, including south India and doing roaring business.

Demand coupled with marketing genius is what makes Sanskrit books vanish from the book selves, not state sponsored, Murli Manohar Joshi like shameless racket. Gujarati is still smarting from this phenomena as the trading community cares less for bunch of stuff which does not add to their "tijorii," strong boxes. Gujaratis have both capital and marketing savvy but no market for Gujarati published material.

Mumbai Samachar a premier Gujarati daily was ran by Parsi, not Gujarati bania. Free Press was Gujarati affair and they had insignificant Gujarati daily as well as Marathi daily coming out. No ad revenue and no readership worth the name. Sindhis have tons of money but cannot run a decent publishing house. One rag tag publication comes out, edited by one Advani, who claimed to me that Lal Kishen Advani was his brother runs a one man show and with the help of volunteers and older ladies pulling makes a go of what he calls the major Sindhi paper. Pathetic.

Yashwant, do you mean to say that in these examples I gave the state should fork over people's money, tax money so that Advani can have an empire but no subjects? Gujjubhais may have international racket at the cost of famished millions? What is wrong with you bubba? I hope you did not ask for neither receive state sponsorship and yet managed to shine and do something that makes the difference, little short in my estimation but not bad.

Brahmins lust for power makes them battery powered bunnies, I said that somewhere. The battery power is gone and so would be Brahmins tom tomming idiotic march to the glory. Throw that RSS shit from your briefcase, you certainly don't need it. Give it to Kishore Joshi, he cannot seem to have enough of it. You are a smart man and answers that you seek are not in government safe boxes, they are in your hands.

The world diamond industry dealing with precious stones does not need government handouts, they don't ask for it. They manage. International oil cartel manages without state subsidies. They react to market forces, albeit with some crazy conniving and conspiring against the United States of America and Russia two of the largest producers.

Stop begging. Beggars are no choosers. If you get some amount of state support it would not be sufficient. The state has made efforts in promoting quality literature by their awards. Rich and influential sethias have followed suit. The idea is to selectively prop the best authors and publisher thereby stimulating the readership. Bollywood Filmfare awards, after Hollywood Oscars have become a cash cow. More awards, more publicity, more idiots rushing to see what has been ballyhooed in the media. The right way of doing things, not your way.

If you have Hindi books that you loved, read from cover to cover and keep on your fireplace mantle as a decorative objects, give them away to your best friends who did not read them. No loss to you no gain to the friends. It is highly likely that one out of ten may find the material so enthralling that he may go and buy his own copies. The readership must be increased not the state support. Can you do it my brother or cry instead?

 
Sid Harth..."Mothers know when to wean their babies as mother's milk cannot sustain the babies forever."