[Lejes Rimul]

Do you know anything at all about Indian history? Indian elites for several centuries were Muslim and spoke Farsi. But their religion is irrelevant. Even educated Hindus spoke Farsi during the Moghul era. Please, please get an education before you talk about things you don't know. A little knowledge really is a dangerous thing in your case.

[penelopesire]

still no links where i can study your stupidity or review mine? LOL...

[voletti]

Point taken.

My issue is with the broad use of the word 'elite'. In the provinces and the princely states of pre-brit India, most royal families that were hindu, even under Mughal dominion, spoke the regional tongue - A sanksritized local dialect in most cases - precursorsa to today's Idian languages like Marathi, Tamil, Bengali or even, Hindi.

The only 'elite' who might've stubbornly stuck with farsi or tom-tommed its supposed superiority over Sanskrit based language would be the original mughal invaders 9babar and his ilk) who'd invaded out of Persia and central Asia. These invading marauders - who later established the mughal dynsaty in delhi were a small proportion of India's social elite, as it was, even then.