[Y-Indology] Kaithi, Caste & Politics (One language, Two scripts - a book review)

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Could it not also be that at some point (with increasing

communication between different parts of India through railways,

newspapers etc) it actually became more convenient for people to use

a more limited number of scripts?

 

Dr Valerie J Roebuck

Manchester, UK

 

At 8:28 pm +0000 4/12/02, ymalaiya wrote:

 

>It seems that I had not given "Kaithi script" enough thought before.

>

>Some people apparantly have, besides Sushil Srivastava, (a

>Professor of history).

>

>Let me quote.

 

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>Avaidaisamy Nadar "Defects of the Dev Nagari Script":

>"Also, Sanskritists have obliterated several indigenous Indian

>scripts like Marathi, Rasjastani (Mahajani) and Bhojpuri (Kaithi).

>In the case of each of these, the forceful imposition of Devanagari

>by fascist Brahminists has led to the destruction of that language's

>native literature."

>http://www.dalitstan.org/journal/dalitism/dal000/devnagnbi.html