and appeal for petty communal/national motivations. Per established Linguistic Standard, " Hindi-Urdu " (taken as one word) is the standard modern term for the erstwhile Hindustani , which was the official language and lingua franca of the British India. Hindi-Urdu(Hindustani) has 4 standardized registers (i.e. subsets); Standard Hindi (Shuddha/Manak/Nagari Hindi -