"::::What's bigotted about it? And the quotes are from material that was considered knowledgeable at the time. But trivial knowledge or not (and racist or not, for that matter), it's one of several quotes that demonstrate that the words 'Hindustani' and 'Urdu' were synonymous in English until the partition of India. Here is a man writing a ""Hindustani"" dictionary, and he refers to the language as ""Hindustani or Urdu"".   

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