Bhojpuri is NOT a Dialect of Hindi: Prof. Shreesh Chaudhary EXPLODES Hindiwalla Propaganda
Jai Maharashtra!
Professor Shreesh Chaudhary has exploded a founding myth or joomla of the Indian Union Government: namely, that Bhojpuri is a dialect of Hindi!
Let us see what the eminent linguist has to say:
"It is a distortion of history to say that Bhojpuri is a dialect of Hindi."
- Shreesh Chaudhary, 'Politics of Language in India: Question of Language or Dialect'
in 'Studies in Indian Sociolinguistics' by R.S. Gupta and Kailash S. Aggarwal (eds), p.87ff: p.89. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1998, 226 pp.
Azad Maharashtra Zindabad!
Major Milind Marathe,
Azad Maharashtra Sena