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⁶Majumdar, R.C. *History and Culture of the Indian People—the Delhi Sultanate*, pp. 648-650 ⁷Gibb, H.A.R. *Rehla of Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa*, pp. 235, 236 got absorbed in *Zaban-i-Dehlavi*. This ‘speech of Delhi’, also called Hindavi, was carried by the Imperial troops, traders and *faqeers* to the Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Central India, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Deccan. It adapted Persian script and became a respectable medium for poetry. Ultimately in the reign of Shah Jahan it came to be known as Urdu and became the *lingua franca* of northern India. Urdu is a Turkish word, which means ‘camp’. Urdu is a Persianized form of western Hindi.