Lingua Franca of Hyderabad: Dakhni

by Guest Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:05 am

Quo Vadis, Hyderabad?

Whatever happens, the Dakhni in their souls will unite the people of this city

Bakthiar K. Dadabhoy

....Hyderabad has been the meeting place of many different cultures and
traditions. It has over the years developed its own distinctive
‘Ganga-Jamuna’ culture. Hyderabad is a cosmopolitan city: people never
identify themselves by their religion but only as Hyderabadis. Dussehra,
Diwali or Sankranti are all meant to be enjoyed, whether one is Hindu
or not. And Id brings celebrations not for a single community but for
the entire city. Faith is a personal matter and what unites one is the
sense of belonging to Hyderabad. (Old-timers say all this is a thing of
the past, but I believe such pessimism is unwarranted).

Language is not a problem. The unique lingua franca, Dakhni, one of the
most identifiable markers of Hyderabad, is a delicious blend of Hindi,
Urdu and Telugu, with a lacing of old Marathi. The plural character of
the city dates back to its founder, Quli Qutb Shah, who was also a
Telugu scholar. Geographically too, it is inclusive: the twin cities,
Hyderabad and Secunderabad, do not exhibit the cleavage in environment
that divides, say, South Mumbai and the suburbs, or the Calcuttan whose
life is confined south of Park Street. And now there is also Cyberabad,
as the 400-year-old city constantly reinvents itself.

http://mbbhushan.wordpress.com/category/hyderabad/dakhni/

by Guest Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:15 am

One of the founding fathers of modern hindi (and also modern urdu) is also the founder of Hyderabad city. This poet-king was Mohammad Quli Qutb Shah who reigned from 1580 to 1611. The following words of Quli are from the book 'Prince Poet Lover Builder: Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah The Founder of Hyderabad' by Narendra Luthra.

suno log meri prem kahani
ke peela hai rang aashiqi ki nishani
(Listen, people, to the tale of my love
the pallid complexion signifies a lover)

----
another one:

Mere sang mil bajaati sankh gaati, Sankhara abhran
Sriraga jo gati istri to mujko bhati hai

(She who plays the conch with me and sings Snakhrabhram,
The one who sings Sriraga -- that woman I like).

by Propagandhi711 Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:34 am

Rashmun wrote:Quo Vadis, Hyderabad?

Whatever happens, the Dakhni in their souls will unite the people of this city

Bakthiar K. Dadabhoy

....Hyderabad has been the meeting place of many different cultures and
traditions. It has over the years developed its own distinctive
‘Ganga-Jamuna’ culture. Hyderabad is a cosmopolitan city: people never
identify themselves by their religion but only as Hyderabadis. Dussehra,
Diwali or Sankranti are all meant to be enjoyed, whether one is Hindu
or not. And Id brings celebrations not for a single community but for
the entire city. Faith is a personal matter and what unites one is the
sense of belonging to Hyderabad. (Old-timers say all this is a thing of
the past, but I believe such pessimism is unwarranted).

Language is not a problem. The unique lingua franca, Dakhni, one of the
most identifiable markers of Hyderabad, is a delicious blend of Hindi,
Urdu and Telugu, with a lacing of old Marathi. The plural character of
the city dates back to its founder, Quli Qutb Shah, who was also a
Telugu scholar. Geographically too, it is inclusive: the twin cities,
Hyderabad and Secunderabad, do not exhibit the cleavage in environment
that divides, say, South Mumbai and the suburbs, or the Calcuttan whose
life is confined south of Park Street. And now there is also Cyberabad,
as the 400-year-old city constantly reinvents itself.

http://mbbhushan.wordpress.com/category/hyderabad/dakhni/

this sissy mary bongoli is a bullshit artist nonpareil. sankranti and dussera celebrated by muslims? my ass it is. rest is dreamy eyed integration bullshit that's peddled elsewhere on the web.

by Guest Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:02 pm

In a published paper, Vijeyendra has suggested that the nirguni tradition lived and traveled in the vernacular rather than in the formal languages of learning. Since the tradition spans the entire land mass of India, there must have historically been a common language of dialogue that it helped evolve and that helped it spread. This language, that evolved and spread through a vast swathe of the country from Punjab to the southern reaches of the Deccan, exchanging vocabulary with each local language it encountered, and even exchanging with the dravidian languages, it is suggested, is Dakhni - an ingenious, organic, common tongue, that simplified the grammar as it traveled and even today swaps vocabulary with the languages it co-exists among. The 'hindi' of Mumbai (and the film industry) and Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka is Dakhni. Dakhni has also engaged with Tamil and Malayalam in various parts of the south and it may be argued that Punjabi (the language of Nanak), is also related to Dakhni. Not surprisingly, it is also the language that set deep roots in Bidar and continues to be the most widely used common tongue in the district, effortlessly bridging speakers of Kannada, Marathi and Telugu with no distinction of creed or religion. Many experts believe that Dakhni is the true pre-cursor of both modern Urdu and formal Hindi.

http://www.bangalorenotes.com/bidar.htm

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