Progress Of Indic Languages Vs English

[Bharatvarsh]

I believe the following is relevant to this thread:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But while such local knowledge and identity could be valuable to the head of a small principality, a subconti-nental imperial system could benefit from a high lan-guage that favored no specific ethnicity – the role played by Persian in the Mughal Empire. In later years, Sivaji and his son and successor Sambhaji seem to have con-sidered the possibility of Sanskrit playing such a role. Thus the Rajavyavaharakosa – a thesaurus of official us-age – was prepared shortly after Sivaji's coronation as Chatrapati. This has sometimes been presented as an effort at the triumphant return of Sanskrit with the end of Muslim rule. S. B. Varnekar, for example, claims that the author was commissioned to write this text in order to save the language of the gods (devabhasa).34 The text itself is much more modest: “Having completely up-rooted the barbarians (mleccha), by the best of kings a learned man was appointed ... to replace the overvalued Yavana words (atyartham yavanavacanair) with educated speech (vibudhabhasam).”35 There is, for a period, a sig-nificant change in register in official documents, with a new prominence given to Sanskritic terminology, even though Marathi remained the official language. I shall return to this theme later in this essay.


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So the opposition to mindless mixing of languages is not any modern phenomenon.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->During the coronation ceremony Maharaj changed the Persian names of the ministers to Sanskrut as follows –

Persian - Sanskrut 
Peshva - Panta Pradhan 
Majmuadar - Panta Amatya 
Vakiya - navis Mantri 
Shuru - navis Panta Sachiv 
Dabir - Sumant 
Sar-e- naubat - Senapati 
Sadra, Muhatsib - Panditrav, Danadhyaksha 
Kazi-ul- kujat - Nyayadish 

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