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"Divide and rule"? the British were experts; and in creating out of one language the notion of a separate "Hindi" for Hindus in colonial India and "Urdu" for Muslims, they used even the definition of languages to set their colonial subjects against one another. Further, this language had its origin from Austric and Dravidian and not from the Indo-European Sanskrit, as is the dogma.
About the Book
In a blow against the British Empire, Khan suggests that London artificially divided India’s Hindu and Muslim populations by splitting their one language in two, then burying the evidence in obscure scholarly works outside the public view.
This groundbreaking work challenges the conventional understanding of Urdu and Hindi as distinct languages rooted in racial and religious divisions. Drawing on linguistic evidence, genetics, and historical documentation, Abdul Jamil Khan presents a radical reframing of how these languages evolved and why they were artificially separated.
The book traces Urdu/Hindi's linguistic components to Mesopotamia, while human language itself evolved from Africa. The book traces the surprising journey of Urdu/Hindi back through Mesopotamia, revealing shared vocabulary and grammatical structures with Sumerian, Akkadian, and other ancient languages. Khan demonstrates that everyday words like "rab" (chief/god), "gu" (cow), and "banāna" (make) connect modern South Asian speech to man's oldest written records. Rather than descending from a mythical Proto-Indo-European language, Urdu/Hindi emerges as a hybrid creation drawing from five distinct linguistic families: Munda, Dravidian, Sanskrit, Persian, and Arabic.
A central revelation concerns how nineteenth-century European scholars weaponized linguistics. The book documents how British colonial powers deliberately created "Hindi" as a separate language to divide Hindu and Muslim populations, replacing Arabic-Persian vocabulary with newly invented Sanskrit terms and changing scripts as tools of political control. This wasn't academic work—it was calculated strategy to fragment resistance to colonial rule.
Khan systematically catalogs vocabulary contributions from each linguistic layer. Sanskrit provided verbs like "khelna" (to play) and "hasna" (to laugh). Arabic-Persian enriched everyday speech with words like "bāzār" (market) and "dil" (heart). Dravidian and Munda contributed foundational terms often overlooked by traditional linguistics. The book includes detailed tables showing these etymologies and how modern Hindi deliberately substituted Sanskrit words for the Urdu/Persian vocabulary that had organically developed over centuries.
The narrative spans from Mesopotamian roots through the Mughal period's secular cultural flowering, the British colonial manipulation of language politics, and modern Hindi's systematic vocabulary replacement program. Khan examines how films, literature, and popular culture maintained linguistic unity despite official division. His genetic analysis reveals that both populations share common African ancestry, further undermining racial justifications for linguistic separation.
This work offers more than historical correction—it presents a scientific framework for understanding South Asian languages free from mythological bias and religious doctrine. For readers interested in the politics of language, India-Pakistan relations, and how power structures shape cultural narratives, this book provides documented evidence that linguistic division served colonial interests rather than reflecting natural linguistic evolution.This is important reading not only for those interested to understand the divisive exploitation of languages in British-led India’s partition, but for those interested in
The science and history of origin of Urdu/Hindi (and other languages)
- The false claims of “linguistic races and creation”
- History of Languages and Scripts
- Language, Mythology and Racism
- Ancient History and Fossil Languages
- British Rule and India’s Partition
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Foreword The story of Urdu/Hindi, the lingua franca of the Indo-Pakistani people, is the story of one language with two separate scripts and with two names: Hindi, when written in Nagari, and Urdu, when written in Arabic. This book is thorough, complete, and free from religious dogmas, and the theories it elaborates are based solely on evidence derived from studies of evolution, integrated with studies of manÃ??'s oldest language, Sumerian. It exposes the EuropeansÃ??' policy (led by British India) in pioneering the concept of mythical races linked to linguistic families, i.e., Semitic, and Aryan/IE, which led to anti-Semitism, religious nationalism, and IndiaÃ??'s religion-based partition and politics. The story of the division of language mirrors the latter policy, which is unraveled in the book. Adopting the most recent evidence of the evolution of human language, starting from an early base in Africa, the book records its dispersal outward from the Middle East, or Mesopotamia, by farmers, and traces the creation of new names, such as IE, Semitic, and Dravidian. The book presents a cumulative/synthetic plan describing UrduÃ??'s evolution over some 10,000Ã??'12,000 years with major contributions from IndiaÃ??'s two oldest language families, Austric-Munda and Dravidian, followed much later by others such as Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian; this apparently unsettles the currently held view of Urdu/Hindi as a daughter dialect of Sanskrit, a 19th-century idea rooted in Hindu religious myth, the German myth of an Aryan race and its supposed hypothetical language proto-Indo European (PIE) Ã??' a scholarly invention Ã??' the presumed mother of IE, SKT, and grandmother of Latin and other languages which have been said to derive from them. A major and also unique segment on Mesopotamian languages reveals the origin of Dravidian, Semitic, Arabic, and Indo-European (IE), including Sanskrit, in the Middle East as hybrids of the simplest Sumerian, Elamite, etc., refuting all racial/religious claims of PIE, HEB, and SKT. The evolution of English is cited in parallel in the book, and is shown to originate not from a dissolution of PIE/Gothic but to be a cumulative from Pictic, Celtic, Latin, Old French, and Anglo-Saxon German. A new classification based on grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and geography, and free from religion/racial myth, is presented as the other thesis in the book. As a work of history the book carries a message, especially for the Indo-Pakistani people, as it uncovers the very first vector, Ã??'mythical/racialÃ??' linguistics, as a proximate cause for the partition, and also for escalating Hindu vs. Muslim, and Aryan vs. Dravidian polemics. UrduÃ??'s history is also enmeshed with manÃ??'s oldest (written) religious ideas/terms, which were written down in Mesopotamia, e.g., names of gods, i.e., Indira, Mitra, Siva, Allah, rab, etc., which are shared by Muslim, Hindus, Jews, and Christians, and is enmeshed as well with MesopotamiaÃ??'s rich vocabulary and grammar Ã??' shared among Arabic, Sanskrit, Dravidian, and Persian; these topics remain isolated in the obscurity of advanced scholarship. The book may be seen as a peace mission with a global perspective, free from mythical dogma. The history of languages, culture, and religion from about 300 BC onwards has divided man into Hindu, Muslim, Christian, and other groups; the history between 300 BC and 3000 BC can reunite him to a common heritage of culture, religious ideas, sciences, and a common linguistic melting pot with a single shared script in Mesopotamia, centered at Iraq, and inclusive of its eastern end (western India) and western (Egypt/Greece) range of influence. Besides this shared heritage, the Indo-Pakistani people will find another scientific perspective in the book, their advent from common genetic parents, termed Ã??'Adam # 5 and Eve G,Ã??' mutant/migrants from Africa. A synthetic and evolution-based work, the book involves many disciplines. The author, a physician, already had learned six languages: Urdu, Hindi, English, Persian, Arabic, and some SKT. Acquiring the requisite knowledge in the other fields implies a rather intensive labor of love, and love of a challenge. Postponing further self-analysis for now, I must highlight some core research findings scattered in the seventeen chapters. The book follows a historic timeline from chapters III to X, including Mesopotamia (chapter III) and India (chapters IV to X), and focuses on the evolution of hybrid Urdu along with a brief cultural review. The first two chapters offer an overview, language classification, and a basic course on phonetic/alphabets and grammar types, i.e., isolating, agglutinating, inflected, and syntax, which are essential in enabling the reader to understand the dialectal differences inside and outside India Ã??' knowledge as basic to linguistic analysis as anatomy is to the study of medicine...
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