Indo-Aryan languages still display a strong correlative system, as was the case in Sanskrit where it was the only way for expressing dependency with finite clauses, but the also display different types of subordination, using a complementizer. The paper explores the syntactic and discursive behaviour of the correlative system in modern Hindi, the rise of the concurrent completive system under the influence of Persian, and the subsequent correlativisation of the completive model, an evolution which enlights the relation between anaphora and correlation