AHC: Persian remains a broadly-used language of India

Historically, in India, Persian was a major language, used to a level comparable to English in India today. It offered an immense amount of vocabulary to Hindustani, and Persian is where the Urdu poetry tradition is ultimately rooted. In fact, the fall of the use of the Persian language in India is something that I've found to be similar to the fall of the French language in Europe. With a POD after the Battle of Samugarh, how can you keep Persian as a greatly-used language in India?
 
Continued Persian use would continue if Islamic monarchies such as the various Mamluk states, Bahamani, Khilji, Mughal/Timurid or Lodhi remained. If these dynasties survived into the modern days as political hegemons but extremely tolerant and even mixed somewhat with Hindu subjects, then Persian could be the Latin of India, bridging the gap between the various languages of the subcontinent. It could even be possible in a simple, no Raj scenario but one that does not have the Maratha confederacy.

Or if we go way back, if you have Afghan warriors conquer India like otl Islamic states, then Persian would likely fill this role far more easier as the Persian speakers would become more or less the same as its Hindu subjects.
 
Continued Persian use would continue if Islamic monarchies such as the various Mamluk states, Bahamani, Khilji, Mughal/Timurid or Lodhi remained. If these dynasties survived into the modern days as political hegemons but extremely tolerant and even mixed somewhat with Hindu subjects, then Persian could be the Latin of India, bridging the gap between the various languages of the subcontinent. It could even be possible in a simple, no Raj scenario but one that does not have the Maratha confederacy.

Or if we go way back, if you have Afghan warriors conquer India like otl Islamic states, then Persian would likely fill this role far more easier as the Persian speakers would become more or less the same as its Hindu subjects.

But these states were increasingly transitioning to urdu as a literary and court language.
 
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