SAST 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Friendly Society, Hindustani Language, Dara Shikoh
23 Oct 2016
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North india develops a distinctive indo-islamic culture. Three broad classes of society: nobility (related to kings, etc. ), largely made of turkish, afghan, persian, and. Arab immigrants: artisans black smiths, cotton weaving, silk weaving, gems, etc, peasants, most of the artisans and peasants are converts from lower caste. Many of the vernacular languages of india rise during this era. Bhakti (devotion, showing love of the divine) hindu poets use vernaculars, scripts also become more regularized (bengali, assamese, oriya, maithili, gujarati, Persian was the official language of state, but urdu (a mix of hindavi grammar with persian and arabic words and script) becomes more common. Urdu and persian sound very similar, but the scripts are completely different. People began to study the difference in languages. There was also a push towards standardized grammar. Another muslim empire that replaces the delhi sultanate. Established in 1526, expands and consolidates until 1707 and survived in an attenuated form until 1857.
