12-27-2007, 02:46 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Bharatvarsh+Dec 27 2007, 07:46 PM-->QUOTE(Bharatvarsh @ Dec 27 2007, 07:46 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->So it would be interesting to know why a more foreign heavy Khariboli was picked as the official language, I am guessing it must be due to Nehru and his love for all things Muslim and hatred for anything to do with Hindus, Savarkar championed Sanskritised Hindi as the connective language
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Bharatvarsh, the khari-boli version of Hindi was also Sanskrit heavy only.
The Urdu-bastardized Hindi is not what Khari-boli was. It was just a accent-less dialect of North India, if you will, and still Sanskrit-nishtha.
That sanskrit-nishtha Khari-boli's acceptance as the media of intellectual and cultural discourse began much before Nehru - and as early as late 1800s and early 1900s. The credit for that goes to a prolific author and jornalist Makhan Lal Chaturvedi, and after him Hajari Prasad Dwivedi. M L Chaturvedi (after whom the first Univ of Journalism was established in India) ran several journals, wrote volumes and dedicated his whole life for the propogation of a natural Khari-boli Hindi. After independence, due to the influence of Harivansha Rai Bachchan (who was in the Nehru cabinet as the "Hindi minister"), Nehru had little impact on the tone of the official language, though Nehru probably preferred a persian-heavy Urdu-ized Hindi (or Urdu in Devanagari) as is evident from his public speeches. For writings he used English of course.
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Bharatvarsh, the khari-boli version of Hindi was also Sanskrit heavy only.
The Urdu-bastardized Hindi is not what Khari-boli was. It was just a accent-less dialect of North India, if you will, and still Sanskrit-nishtha.
That sanskrit-nishtha Khari-boli's acceptance as the media of intellectual and cultural discourse began much before Nehru - and as early as late 1800s and early 1900s. The credit for that goes to a prolific author and jornalist Makhan Lal Chaturvedi, and after him Hajari Prasad Dwivedi. M L Chaturvedi (after whom the first Univ of Journalism was established in India) ran several journals, wrote volumes and dedicated his whole life for the propogation of a natural Khari-boli Hindi. After independence, due to the influence of Harivansha Rai Bachchan (who was in the Nehru cabinet as the "Hindi minister"), Nehru had little impact on the tone of the official language, though Nehru probably preferred a persian-heavy Urdu-ized Hindi (or Urdu in Devanagari) as is evident from his public speeches. For writings he used English of course.