Map of New Delhi District

The area that comprises the present day District of New Delhi has seen a turbulent history since the days the British decided that Delhi should be their capital in the 1910s. The Haryanvi villages of Malcha, Rai, Seena, Kushak, etc...

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In India, upper caste groups have a significantly greater percentage of West Eurasian ancestry than lower caste groups. This points to a West Eurasian migration into India 4500 years ago and subsequent intermixing with earlier populations of India. After the intermixing..

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Amount of land owned by each caste/tribe in Delhi in 1890. (At that time Delhi included Sonipat and Faridabad district too):

Jats: 3,61,705 acres
Gujjars: 83,535 acres
Brahmins: 59,249 acres
Tyagis: 39,338 acres
Ahirs: 31,744 acres
Rajputs: 16,078 acres
Sainis: 1,216 acres

1/4 Chauhan: 16,497 acres
Gorwah: 19,499 acres
Mali: 3,467 acres
Other: 47,193 acres
Total owned by Hindus: 6,78,891 acres

Muslim Tyagis: 17,370 acres
Meos: 14,744 acres
Muslim Jats: 2,035 acres
Muslim Chohans: 4,272 acres
Muslim Rajputs: 2,509 acres
Muslim Gujars: 5,371 acres

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Three places in Delhi where the Aravalli Hills stand preserved and unmined.

1)Jhandewalan

2)Mahipalpur

3)Tughlakabad

Photos and videos below! 1)Jhandewalan

The Aravalli hills can be seen in their full height at Jhandewalan, being as high as a three storeyed building! There is construction over the hills. The Jhandewalan temple was built by a cloth merchant near a waterfall in the hills in the 18th century.

You must have eaten these dishes from various parts of India. But do you know which Sanskrit word their names evolved from? Here's a list of some of them!

1)The Sanskrit word क्वथित, which originally meant 'boiled' or a decoction of milk, turmeric and hing, evolved into कढ़ी! 2)The Sanskrit word भ्रष्ट्रपूरा* (frying pan/ oven cake) evolved into भटूरा, a popular delicacy in states like Punjab and a stuffed yeast fermented variant called भटूरू in areas like Kullu in Himachal Pradesh.

On Urdu and Hindi.

Urdu and Hindi are forms of one language called 'Hindustani', the name coined under European influence. This Hindustani language is a product of the Muslim rule of India, which began around the end of 12th century. It evolved in the environment of armies, .. conquests and migrations which were a part of the process of invasion, expansion and establishment of the Muslim rulers. This environment created this lingua franca (a language which is used by people having different native languages to speak to each other). On careful analysis

Map of Delhi, 1840.

You can see the villages Rai (Rae) and Seena (Seenuh) marked at the place where the Parliament, Rashtrapati Bhawan and other Central Govt. buildings stand. The villages were uprooted by the British around 1915. The Aravali range is also clearly marked. After the Partition, Refugee colonies sprung up on the farmland and commons of many villages mentioned in the map. Some bore the names of freedom fighters, like Lajpat Nagar, Patel Nagar, Rajendra Nagar. Punjabi Bagh is another example of a refugee colony.

To save India's linguistic diversity, a very localised (district/tehsil/village) based approach is needed. The current approach of 'languages' as adopted by the government is useless because-

1)It leads to useless language vs dialect debates and fighting.

2)India has what is.. called a 'linguistic continuum', where features of speech change gradually over small distances. Therefore, it becomes difficult to draw boundaries of a specific Language with a capital L.

3)Whenever a so called 'Language' gets recognised, a 'standard form' of some random...

Just bought the Kauravi dictionary.

Available at: Bhavna Prakashan, Near Patparganj Mandir Masjid, Delhi.
Contact for ordering/buying: +91 88001 39684

Ships everywhere (India and abroad). If you live in or near Delhi, you can go and buy.

Price: Around 350~450.
Pages: 480 The Kauravi language is spoken in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Delhi in the districts of Dehradun, Haridwar, Saharanpur, Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Hapur, trans Yamuna and some parts of South, Central and North Delhi (Okhla, Khirki, Patparganj..

False perception of our LANGUAGES as 'dialects'
and 'village speech' has done a lot of harm.

Hindi is just a register of the Hindustani language, and it doesn't have any dialect.

A thread.

(1/11) In pre-independence times, 'Hindi' technically meant 'of India', and could be applied to any language of India. Some time after independence, a continuous propaganda campaign was initiated to club a large number of unique languages as 'Hindi dialects' so as to...

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