Joe Shearer
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How so?
Interesting question.
I didn't like Hindi at school; in a Sainik School, it is mandatory to learn it, and all house, class and NCC commands were in it. But there was an elaborate explanation given by our long-suffering Hindi teacher, which had to do with the gradual growth of influence of a set of Hindi writers from central and western UP.
If you like, I'll bone up on the subject and tell you.
This dates back to as recently as the 19th century. The normal lingua franca was Hindustani, that could be spoken with more Sanskrit words or with more Urdu words, and was common to all between the Yamuna and Bihar. This is why Gandhi got so distraught at the increasing Sanskritisation of Hindi, and kept pleading for Hindustani.