Persian and Urdu Literature

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Persian Literature

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Alauddin Khilji's time persian flourished in India. And 2 famous persons related to persian literature spread in India

• Amir Khusrau=>5 Master pieces of AK
• Khamsa
• STarin Khusrau
• Laila Majnu
• Hast Bihist
• Ain-i-Sikkandri
• Note: in Nooh siphir AK portrayed his love towards India.
• Hasan-i- Dahlavi (aka. Naimmuddin Shaikh)

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Note: initially Mughal rulers used to speak in Turkish and Babur Nama was written in Turkish. Later it was translated to persian.(Wrote: Babur, Translated to Persian by : Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khana)

Note: from Akbar period onwards persian become court language. the first thing in Akbhar period written in persian was HUMAYUNAMA.

Note: Tujuk-i-Jahangir by Jahangir.

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Urdu Literature

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• Urdu means Camp. 
• Urdu as a language emerged from the military camps were the main language of administrators and commandors were Persians & Turkish. While that of Soldiers (Ardali) it was Khariboli & Suraseni.
  
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• the interaction among them lead to generation of New language called URDU.
• most of vocab and phrases in urdu taken from persian and turkish
• Gramatical structure from Saraseni
• Spoken structure (Syllable) taken from Khariboli.
• Amir Khusrau was the Greatest figure of Urdu and for the first time he used urdu for the literary purpose.
• However it was Bahmani, Golconda, Bijapur Kingdom which gave literary status to urdu.

Note: Bahmani disintegrated to  - Bidar,Bidaar, Golconda, Bijapur, Ahmdnagar

Note: Ba-Shara: those who follow Sharia law, Be-Shara: those who dont follow Sharia law

Note: Chishti, Suhrawardy => Ba Shara ; several other in Be Shara