“Moghul Royals spoke medieval Hindi: Descent and evolution of Urdu from this language”, News Bharati, June 23, 2023:
“Medieval dialects of Hindi descended from Apabhramsa that predate even the early Muslim invaders like Mahmud Gazhnavi (Shukla 1940, Dinkar 1956 and Khan 1987). Dinkar’s magnum opus Sanskriti ke Char Adhyay is a work of immense scholarship, with a foreword written by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and received Sahitya Academy Award. Antiquity of Hindi and its literature.
Historical and literary evidence evinces that right from late ancient and early medieval days both Hindus and Muslims had been writing poetry in various dialects of northern India, such as, Khadi Boli, Braja and Avadhi. These dialects are often collectively called proto-Hindi or medieval Hindi and were written in Nagari script (ibid).
The earliest written specimens of Khadi Boli poetry are found in the writings of Amir Khusrau (1253 – 1325 AD). A scholar of Persian, he wrote extensively in Braja also. An example of Sufi spiritual verse composed by Khusrau is given here….”
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