But there was, for Indus and India, a significant fall-out of the Mongol rampage in central Asia. It drove endless streams of Muslim princes, administrators, generals, poets, and sufi saints from their homelands to the securer plains of Indus and India. This intermingling gave an impetus to philosophy, mathematics, and astrology as well as to the arts. The intermixture of languages and literatures produced a new language: Urdu (literally, the ‘language of the camp’).
