It is a fascinating tale of how the British manufactured history and actually created a language for the Hindus–to give them identity and make them the so called owners of the land. The culprits were John Borthwick Gilchrist (June 1759 – 1841) was a noted British Indologist like Sir James Princep. The other partners in crime were Sr. Mortimer, Sir William Jones, Pandit Radhakantta, Sadal Misr, and Sir James Princep. They worked in unison, and conjured up Ashoka. Sr. Jones came up with false artifacts most of which have been discredited–even by Bharati sources. Dr. Glicrist created a Sanskritized version of Hindu Hindi with the help of a Brahmin of Gujarat, Lallu Lai who translated several books into pure Sanskritized “Hindi” from Persian or Persianized Urdu. According to RS McGregor Lallu Ji Lai and his colleagues produced numbers of translations and adaptations of … of the Sanskrit Bhdgavata Purdna, at the order of John Gilchrist.
John Glicrist wrote a dictionary of Urdu but he called it Hindustani.
Lallu Lal, under the inspiration of Dr. Gilchrist, changed all that by writing the famous Prem Sagar, whose prose portions are on the whole Urdu, from which Persian words have been throughout replaced by Indo-Aryan words. . . . The new dialect gave a lingua franca to the Hindus.)
Some recent Hindi writers have protested against this account of the origin of Modern Hindi, but so far as I can see, their protests do not seem to hold much water.
Full report here Rupeenews
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