Umrao Jan Adam of Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa (Sanskrit Translation with Linguistic Study)

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The sole reason to take this kind of hard and absolutely different task in my hand can be present as follows. Whenever I met to a scholar of mediaeval History of India or that of Arabic, Persian and Urdu languages for the assistance in my project entitled 'Muslim Contribution to Sanskrit Learning', I was generally suggested by them to learn Persian first before starting my project. However, I started and as well as continued my project paying full ignorance to their time-taking suggestions. In this sequence I met an extraordinary Muslim Sanskrit Scholar Pandit Sayyid Husain Shastri in Malihabad near Lucknow. It was somewhat ending of the year 2003 or beginning of 2004 when he scolded me for doing such kind of hard work without having the knowledge of Persian and Urdu. Being so caring for me, he started guiding Alif, Be, Pe, Te... to me and forced to practice the writing Urdu script. Nevertheless, as I was much busy in collection of the materials for my project through visiting the libraries of all over India, I could not continue myself with the exercise of Urdu reading or writing.