I was first introduced to the work of Allison Busch when I was pursuing my Master’s degree. My course on the history of the Mughals had a week dedicated to literary cultures in the empire. I thought I would be reading about how Urdu and Hindi combined to give rise to Hindustani, the language of the empire. When I found histories of Hindi on my reading list, I was perplexed.
The first article I read was titled “Hidden in plain view: Brajbhasha Poets at the Mughal Court.” Allison Busch, the author of the article, traces the rise of Brajbhasha in the Mughal court, noting that patronage of Hindi by Indo-Muslim elites was an old tradition and served as a political imperative in building consensus with local Rajput kings.
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