Talk:Jia Sarai

The real name is Zia Sarai and not Jia Sarai. The village has reference in the Tareekh i Feroze Shahi of Shamsuddin ibn Sirajuddin Afeef (Persian) MS and subsequent printed edition of The Royal Asiatic Society Calcutta 1867.

After India's independence, the Government records were subjected to adopt Hindi the national language in its Devnagri script from Persian/Urdu which had remained in force even during the British Raj. In Hindi there is no alphabetical letter to correspond to Z and the closest letter corresponds to J. Early Hindi scripts used a (.) under the letter Ja to make it a distinct letter sounding Za. Of late the use of dots under Devnagri letters to create sounds of Q instead of K and F instead of Ph and as in this case of Z instead of J has been done away with. Hence the village of the times of the Albari Turks called for centuries as Zia Sarai named after Zia Ul Hassan Qarmachi the once owner of this village and a noble in the Court of Ghyasuddin Balban, has been renamed as Jia Sarai in New Delhi's Municipal Records. Lutfullah (talk) 12:57, 27 September 2011 (UTC)Lutfullah