hyderabad the vicissitudes of years of existence of deccani have indeed brought about a change in the nature of the language hindi and urdu share a common ancestor in deccani and are the same language written in different scripts hyderabad sitting comfortably amidst racks of books in farsi urdu and english in almost every discipline of art historian and consultant to christies in london ziauddin ahmed shakeb talks of the evolution of languages and the symbolism and nuances of indoislamic art a former professor of urdu and the history of indoislamic art and culture at the school of oriental and african studies london shakeb describes india as the land of cultural euphony because of the confluence of the rich indian and persian cultures and deccani as the first indian language rich in secular literature i realised quite early that india has a rich culture and that every sentence spoken here is indicative of an indoislamic blend says shakeb being a historian the study of history necessitates the examination of art cultures and religion therefore it is only natural that my studies are of my own history culture language and religion shakeb 75 says that deccani was used as the language of mass literacy deccani adopted the persian script and introduced a number of indian vowels and consonants to accommodate speakers of various languages sufis and the rulers of the deccan especially the qutub shahis have made an invaluable contribution to the deccani idiom a collection of poems entitled kulliyaatemohammed quli qutub shah is sultan mohammed quli qutub shahs testament to his patronage of the deccani language deccani later reached the there is no decadence of these languages at the spoken level only an evolution urdu serves as the link language for immigrants from all over india and even nepal it is spoken by millions in europe because of which it has been recognised as a modern european language at a par with french german italian and spanish according to shakeb there is no limit of persianising and arabicising urdu as there are no boundaries of sanskritising hindi he maintains that the two languages are the same the deccani style of painting too is a result of the merging of rich and distinct cultures the palette mixes the characteristics of islamic paintings with that of hindu paintings the product of which is a painting with a perfect sense of visual equilibrium this style also combines the elements of action and movement indoislamic paintings are found in the form of miniatures and illustrations for books says shakeb the deccani style also combines the infinite depth of islamic paintings which more often than not is exposed to an aerial view the aerial view is symbolic of the concept of the infinite and the painters awareness of cosmology the presence of the grotesque instead of clouds is indicative of celestial spheres all pointing towards the painters belief in metaphysics and god the art evaluator says that due to the absence of recession the farther