Usage of Hinglish

In 1827, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-31), India’s first English poet, in his poem “Ode – From the Persian of Half’ Queez” wrote:

Without thy dreams, dear opium,
Without a single hope I am,
Spicy scent, delusive joy;
Chillum hither lao, my boy!

Rent Law ka gham karen ya Bill of Income Tax ka?
Kya karen apna nahin hai sense right now-a-days.
Darkness chhaaya hua hai Hind mein chaaro taraf
Naam ki bhi hai nahin baaqi na light now-a-days

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Usage of Hinglish

In 1827, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-31), India’s first English poet, in his poem “Ode – From the Persian of Half’ Queez” wrote:

Without thy dreams, dear opium,
Without a single hope I am,
Spicy scent, delusive joy;
Chillum hither lao, my boy!

This was a sprinkling of Hindi in an English poem.


In 1887, Ayodhya Prasad Khatri (1857-1905), did the reverse – sprinkled English in Hindi in these lines about life under British rule:

Rent Law ka gham karen ya Bill of Income Tax ka?
Kya karen apna nahin hai sense right now-a-days.
Darkness chhaaya hua hai Hind mein chaaro taraf
Naam ki bhi hai nahin baaqi na light now-a-days

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