Hindu/Urdu

Starting July 2009, responsibility for the teaching of Hindi/Urdu has been transferred from ME/SA to Classics.  As a result of this change, Hindi/Urdu courses are now listed on the Classics  website at http://classics.ucdavis.edu/content/courses

 Hindi is the primary spoken language of at least 337 million Indians, comprising about 40% of India's population. Outside India, Hindi speakers number around 8 million, distributed across Nepal, South Africa, Mauritius, US, Yemen, Uganda, Germany, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Fiji and the UAE. Urdu is an Indic language (the official literary language of Pakistan) essentially identical to Hindi in its spoken form but in its literary form heavily influenced by Persian and Arabic and written in an Arabic alphabet. About a 100 million people in Pakistan and India speak Urdu. Linguists consider Urdu and Hindi to be dialects of the same language. Together Hindi-Urdu is the second most widely spoken language in the world.

Instructor

Poonam Chauhan
Lecturer in Hindi/Urdu

Office: 910 Sproul Hall
Email:  chauhan@ucdavis.edu

Office:
Hindi/Urdu Instructors 

910 Sproul Hall

Coordinator:
Carlee Arnett
Associate Professor of German
Director of Basic Languages, Department of German
Email: clarnett@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-0751
Office: 413 Sproul Hall

ME/SA faculty whose teaching and research involves Hindi-Urdu:

Sudipta Sen, Professor, History
530.752.3047

Smriti Srinivas, Associate Professor, Anthropology
530.752.9223

Sunaina Maira, Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
530.752.6727

Parama Roy, Associate Professor, English
530.752.6337

2013-2014 Courses: