Among the orientalists who loved Urdu and strived to promote it, French scholar Josheph Garcin de Tassy stands head and shoulders above the rest. He devoted his life to the service of Urdu and spent 50 years of his life reading and writing about the language and its literature. At that time even some of the basic works, such as dictionaries, grammar, literary history and criticism, were either in their rudimentary stages or missing altogether.
Another European scholar who deserves special
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