A distinct dialect
Parsi Gujarati, with its own vocabulary, grammar and syntax, should not be allowed to die out
Aban Mukherji
Parsi Gujarati has been dismissed as "an inaccurate variety” of Gujarati by no less a person than K. M. Munshi, the renowned writer, critic and founder of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. Mahatma Gandhi, in his foreword to Munshi’s Gujarat and its Literature: from early times to 1852, is scathing in his criticism of Parsi Gujarati. "It is unfortunate that there is Parsi Gujarati. It is confined to novels and stories of the shilling shocker style. They are meant merely for passing the idle hour. The language is tortured out of shape.”
The result of such criticisms was that the immense contribution......
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