Imre Bangha will deliver a lecture on ‘What can we know about Hindustani in the Mughal era?’. It will be chaired by Mrityunjay. The lecture is being organized by Parekh Institute of Indian Thought, CSDS.
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The talk will follow up the traces of Hindustani as lingua franca within the linguistic map of the Mughal Empire, investigate its social locations and discuss its literary use as Rekhta, mixed-language poetry as well as the emergence of its prose in the 18th century. It will also address why the idea of Hindustani has been erased in later centuries.
Imre Bangha is Associate Professor of Hindi at University of Oxford. He studied Indology in Budapest and holds a Ph.D. from Visva-Bharati. His publications include English, Hindi, Urdu and Hungarian books and articles on literature in Brajbhasha and other forms of classical Hindi with special focus on the poetry of individual authors and on the development of Hindi literary idioms.
Mrityunjay is a Research Associate of Indian Languages Programme at CSDS, Delhi.
Tuesday, 17 March 2026, 4 pm, Seminar Room and Zoom https://bit.ly/3OlgswM
