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Urdu is officially recognised in India and has official status in the National Capital Territory of Delhi to which the language has remained deeply attached through its medieval history of Muslim sultanates and empires and the Indian states and union territories of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, [3] Telangana and Jammu and Kashmir.
At that time, no Urdu department existed at any University in undivided India and Urdu was often parts of departments such as Oriental Studies or Persian. [3] Zamin Ali's proposal was accepted by the Vice Chancellor, Sir Ganganath Jha leading to establishing the Department of Urdu [4] in 1924. He was appointed the head of the department, a ...
Geographical distribution of Urdu in India and Pakistan. There are over 100 million native speakers of Urdu in India and Pakistan together: there were 50.8 million Urdu speakers in India (4.34% of the total population) as per the 2011 census; [2] and approximately 16 million in Pakistan in 2006. [129]
Hindustani (sometimes called Hindi–Urdu) is a colloquial language and lingua franca of Pakistan and the Hindi Belt of India. It forms a dialect continuum between its two formal registers: the highly Persianized Urdu, and the de-Persianized, Sanskritized Hindi. [2] Urdu uses a modification of the Persian alphabet, whereas Hindi uses Devanagari ...
Urdu, the heavily Persianised version of Khariboli, replaced Persian as the official language of local administration in North India in the early 19th century. However, the association of the Persian script with Muslims prompted Hindus to develop their own Sanskritised version of the dialect, leading to the formation of Hindi. [ 16 ]
Taasir Delhi, Ranchi, Patna, Muzaffarpur editions are RNI-certified circulations.. Central Bureau of Communication https://cbcindia.gov.in/ (Under Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India), erstwhile DAVP, has already empanelled Delhi, Ranchi, Patna, Muzaffarpur, Howrah, Chennai, Bangalore, Guwahati, Mumbai, Bhagalpur, Gangtok, and Bhopal editions of Taasir and has fixed ...
Qaumi Awaz (transl. voice of the nation) is an Urdu language newspaper published in India [1] by Associated Journals Limited, which was started by Jawaharlal Nehru in November 1937. It was shut in 2008 company was incurring losses. Its sister publications are the National Herald newspaper in English and Navjivan in Hindi.
News18 Urdu is India's full-time Urdu News channel which relays news and programs 24 hours a day. It is owned by Network 18 which is owned and operated by Reliance Industries. To cater to the needs of Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states audience, the News 18 management started regional bulletins.