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[edit] Citation for Hindustani language

Hello. You offered p. 58 of Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World as source for the change of the underlined word in the following from "along with" to "behind":

"As a contact language between the two cultures, Hindustani absorbed large numbers of Persian, Arabic, and Turkic words, and with further Mughal conquest it spread as a lingua franca across northern India. It remained the primary lingua franca of India for the next four centuries, although it varied significantly in vocabulary depending on the local language, and it achieved the status of a literary language, behind Persian, in the Muslim courts."

However, the passage on p. 58 of the book only relates to the position of Persian compared to a Turkic language at the time of Gulbadan, at the fledgling start of the Mughal Empire, before Akbar's conquest spread Hindustani across northern India. It does not state anything about the position of Hindustani in the following centuries. So the citation does not support the change you made.  --Lambiam 21:34, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

You state that the reason that your source did not mention Hindustani is that Hindustani was never an official language of administration of the Mughal Empire. While it may be true that Hindustani was never an official language of administration of the Mughal Empire, the article did and does not claim that. It is further completely immaterial why your source did not mention Hindustani; the fact is that it does not mention it, and so cannot serve as citation for "[Hindustani] achieved the status of a literary language, behind Persian, in the Muslim courts."  --Lambiam 23:21, 31 December 2007 (UTC)