While Dehlavi was slowly getting transformed into Deccani, through the induction of words from Gujarati, Marathi and Telugu in the Deccan, a new transformation was happening in the region of the birth of Dehlavi or Hindavi after the sacking of Delhi by Taimur in 1398. The official language of the court at Agra was Persian while the language of the streets in Agra was Braj and Akbar patronised Braj. The language of intellectual discourse was Persian and so gradually some of the finest Persian poetry were written in Delhi. This is a fact now recognised by Iranian scholars of the history of Persian language and they call it ‘Sabk-e-Hindi’ - Indian school of Persian writing. There was Hindavi developing into Deccani, as the rulers of Golconda and Bijapur replaced it with Persian in their public dealings.

Source: dna April 21, 2019 01:30 UTC