Hafiz Mehmood Khan Shirani

Hafiz Mehmood Shirani (1880 - 1946, حافظ محمود خان شیرانی‬) was an Indian researcher and poet during the British era[1] and father of famous Urdu poet Akhtar Sheerani. He started teaching Urdu at Islamia College, Lahore in 1921.[2] In 1928 he moved to Oriental College, Lahore. He was a researcher and his popular theory was "Punjab Mein Urdu" which make him famous in Urdu searching field. Hafiz Mehmood Khan Shirani died in his native town of Tonk.

Theory about origin of Urdu

Hafiz Mehmood Shirani is credited with the theory that says Urdu was born in Punjab. He says since Mahmud of Ghazni had conquered Lahore and Muslims stayed there for some 200 years before invading Delhi, Urdu must have taken shape during that period and, in a way, the Punjabi language gave birth to Urdu. Some two centuries later, Mr Sherani says, Muslim conquerors brought this new language to Delhi with them. He also enlisted some similarities between Urdu and Punjabi.[3] Shirani was in fact not the first to reach this conclusion and before him some renowned linguists and scholars such as Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, T. Graham Bailey and Mohiuddin Qadri Zor had expressed similar views, however Shirani was the first to try to thoroughly prove the theory.

Sabzwari and Masud Husain Khan proved this theory was incorrect. Aside from historical aspects, they showed that in addition to similarities between the two languages, there were a large number of syntactical and morphological differences that proved that Urdu was not the daughter of Punjabi.

References

  1. ↑ Internet archive books. "Punjab Mein Urdu Hafiz Mehmood Khan Shirani".
  2. ↑ By Mohan Lal. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot. Sahitya Akademi. p. 4020.
  3. ↑ Dildār ʻAlī Farmān Fatiḥpūrī, Dild−ar ʻAl−i Farm−an Fatiḥp−ur−i. Pakistan movement and Hindi-Urdu conflict. Sang-e-Meel Publications, 1987 - Foreign Language Study - 406 pages. p. Page 24.
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