This dictionary has been compiled for Indian, Hindi-Urdu speakers, living in diaspora-in Fiji, Mauritius and The Caribbean Islands-who speak and understand their ancestral tongue but cannot read the original scripts, be they devanagari or Shah-mukhi (Urdu-Persian). There is also that generation of Indians and Pakistanis who have had the privileged Public School education in English-medium and were not blessed with good reading skills in their native scripts. This ...
