INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Rekhta is the old name of Urdu. Amir Khusrau, the late 13th Century poet wrote in Rekhta. It changed its name many times and came to be known as Dakkani, Gujari, Hindavi, etc at various points of time. Mir and Ghalib also wrote in Rekhta, which later came to be known as Urdu in the late 19th Century.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rekhta is one of the old names of the Urdu language. Literally, it stands for blending or amalgamation. Since Urdu, as a language, came into being as a result of the blending of many languages, it was called Rekhta.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rekhta (Urdu: [ˈɾeːxtaː]; Hindi: [ˈɾeːxtaː]) was the Hindustani language as its dialectal basis shifted to the Delhi dialect. This style evolved in both the Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts and is considered an early form of Urdu and Hindi.

Detailed explanation-4: -Throughout the history of the language, Urdu has been referred to by several other names: Hindi, Hindavi, Rekhta, Urdu-e-Muallah, Dakhini, Moors and Dehlavi.

Detailed explanation-5: -Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language and the national language of Pakistan, and is closely related to and mutually intelligible with Hindi, though a lot of Urdu vocabulary comes from Persian and Arabic, while Hindi contains more vocabulary from Sanskrit.