Hindi goes as well

[danohu]

What I didn't mention in the last post - because I didn't believe it - was that Sanskrit isn't the only course going. Cambridge is also closing the Hindi department. This is something like the fourth most widely-spoken language in the world, 400 million speakers (many more if you include urdu speakers, and speakers of hindi as a second language). How does nobody think it might be useful for somebody to be able to speak this language?

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[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

I think this decision is pretty firm - everybody involved seems resigned to it (and mostly, they're resigning as well). Basically, everything's going to move to Oxford :(