Dr. K. S. Mustafa represents the Urdu Teaching and Research Centre in Solan. His paper presented in Prof. M.B.Emeneau Centenary International Conference on South Asian Linguistics is titled "Urdu, Dakkhini Urdu Vis-À-Vis Emeneau's Concept Of 'India As A Linguistic Area'" and it focuses on Dakkhini Urdu, a crucial variant of Urdu, which is considered to be the earliest antecedent of today's Hindi and Urdu.

           The data for the paper is drawn from the Rayalseema dialect of Dakkhini especially the one that is spoken in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. He presents the statistics of 1991 Census, regarding the number of speakers in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and states that Dakkhini generally forms the religious symbol of Muslims in all these states.

          Speaking on the bilingualism of Dakkhini speakers he says that, a high incidence is observed in this regard in all these three states. In this paper, the impact of Telugu on Dakkhini is highlighted through the elements of auxiliary verb, relative participle and complement construction. The basis of the evidences presented by Dr. Mustafa confirms that Telugu has converged to Dakkhini and the study shows that Dakkhini and Telugu are closer to each other.

          In conclusion, Dakkhini situation proves Emeneau's concept of ' India as a Linguistic Area' beyond doubt and that the languages belonging to different families happily co-exist and share some common traits of other language families.

          Dr. B. D. Mishra initiated the discussion that followed the session chaired by Dr. Kikkeri Narayan, stating that when present or past suffix was added, the nature of the main root will be apparent. Replying to Prof. Hans Henrich Hock's query on earlier forms of Hindi-Urdu, Prof. Mustafa replied that he had no knowledge of the classical literature of Dakkhini Urdu. Prof. Khubchandani's observation was on the continuous contact between Hyderabadi-Dakkhini Urdu, Karnatic Dakkhini Urdu and Rayalseema dialect of Dakkhini Urdu and the variablilities among these; he suggested that there is a good scope to see that diffusion of these variabilities.