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

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INDOLOGY, Valerie J Roebuck <vjroebuck@m...> wrote:

> 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

 

Unification of script is the counterpart of the political unification

and a bureaucratic state, which was a new developement in India.

 

After all, unlike different Chinese dialects, Hindi dialects were not

mutually unintelligeble. This made unification of script easier

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