Urdu,Hindi,and Sanskrit

[Vidhyanath Rao]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 16:22:07 -0000, Stephen Hodge
<s.hodge at PADMACHOLING.FREESERVE.CO.UK> wrote:


>[...]  there was virtually a blanket ban on all Sufi texts
>being published afresh and none could be reprinted in banned Arabic
>script -- all that would have been available in pre-war years were old
>Ottoman lithographic copies or manuscripts in Arabic script [...]

Precisely. It is not the script reform, but the ban on reissues in the
new script. That was not so explicit in the original post: Cf, Rohan
Oberoi's comments in this thread. How quickly politics overwhlems logic!