We must, now, first understand something about Khariboli (or
Hindustani) which is the foundation on which Urdu was built.
What is Khariboli? Khariboli is simple or spoken Hindi, as
contrasted to literary Hindi which is used by many writers and
public speakers (for instance, in Khariboli (or Hindustani) we
say "udhar dekhiye", while in Hindi we say "udhar avlokan
keejiye"). Khariboli is an urban language. It is the first
language of the common man in the cities of what is known as the
Hindi speaking belt (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya
Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, etc.) and is the
second language in the cities of many parts of the non-Hindi
speaking belt, not only in India but also in Pakistan. To
illustrate this let me relate a personal experience. I was
travelling in a taxi from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh to
Gulbarga in Karnataka where I had to attend a function. The taxi
driver was a Telugu speaking person while the professor of
Gulbarga University who came to fetch me was a Kannada