# Hindustani Lyrics

Author: Inayat Khan, 1882-1927 [Translator]; Westbrook, Jessie Duncan [Translator]

Genre: India

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17711

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Hindustani+Lyrics+Inayat+Khan&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Of the many languages of India, Urdu (Hindustani) is the most widely known, especially in Upper India. Both as a written and a spoken language it has a reputation throughout Asia for elegance and expressiveness. Until the time of Muhammad Shah, Indian poetry was written in Persian. But that monarch, who mounted the throne of Delhi in 1719, greatly desired to make Urdu the vogue, and under his patronage and approval, Hatim, one of his ministers, and Wali of the Deccan, wrote Diwans in Urdu. This patronage of poets was continued by his successors, and exists indeed to the present day; and the cultivation of Urdu poetry has always been encouraged at the many Courts of India. Some of the Indi...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hindustani-lyrics-17711/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hindustani-lyrics-17711/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hindustani-lyrics-17711/chapters/3/index.md)