Nehru and Persian/Arabic
N. Ganesan
naga_ganesan at HOTMAIL.COM
Tue Jan 12 17:28:24 UTC 1999
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Where does Nehru say that Persian and Arabic are part of the Indian
cultural heritage?
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In India, Persian and Arabic are given protection as
Classical languages.
But not Tamil!!!. Tamil has 2300 years of continuous
literary tradition, its love/"interior landscape"
poems/poetics is unmatched anywhere.
IVC language is definitely agglutinative and most
probably a Dravidian language (cf. I. Mahadevan, A. Parpola).
It is high time Tamil is given protection in India
just like Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian.
With high regards,
N. Ganesan
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