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  2. Hindi–Urdu controversy - Wikipedia

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    The Hindi–Urdu controversy arose in 19th-century colonial India out of the debate over whether Modern Standard Hindi or Standard Urdu should be chosen as a national language. Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible as spoken languages, to the extent that they are sometimes considered to be dialects or registers of a single spoken language ...

  3. Urdu movement - Wikipedia

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    The phrase Zaban-e Urdu-e Mualla written in Urdū Lashkari Zaban ("Battalionese language") title in Nastaliq script.. The Urdu movement was a socio-political movement aimed at making Urdu (the standardized register of the Hindustani language), as the universal lingua-franca and symbol of the cultural and political identity of the Muslim communities of the Indian subcontinent during the British ...

  4. Hindutva boycott of Hindi cinema - Wikipedia

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    Bollywood has historically had many Muslims involved in the production of its movies, with some of the most popular film stars being Muslim, especially the Khans of Bollywood and many of the lyricists and songwriters infusing Urdu into the scripts; [7] [8] Urdu, which is heavily influenced by Middle Eastern languages such as Persian and Arabic, is generally associated with South Asian Muslims.

  5. List of books banned in India - Wikipedia

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    This book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India. [12] 1952 Chadramohini: This book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India. [12] 1952 Marka-e-Somnath: Maulana Muhammad Sadiq Hussain Sahab Sadiq Siddiqui Sardanvi This book, originally in Urdu, is a Pakistani treatise on Somnath and it cannot be imported into India. [12] 1954

  6. Explainer-Is India changing its name to Bharat? G20 invite ...

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    WHAT IS THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT INDIA'S NAME? By convention, invitations issued by Indian constitutional bodies have always mentioned the name India when the text is in English, and the name Bharat ...

  7. Urdu-speaking people - Wikipedia

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    It was made the official language of British India in 1825 and got large opposition from the Hindus and thus sparking the Hindi-Urdu controversy in 1867. This resulted in Sir Syed's Two Nation Theory in 1868. The Urdu language was used in the emergence of a political Muslim self-consciousness. [37]

  8. Partition of India - Wikipedia

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    The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British ... and Hindus were politically mobilized in the Hindi–Urdu controversy and the anti-cow-killing riots ...

  9. Talk:Hindi–Urdu controversy - Wikipedia

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    The hindi - urdu controversy (1867) made Sir syed revise his views politically urdu was a common language for both Hindus and Muslims sir Syed was shocked by the Hindu insistence on hindi written. The reaction of the Hindus to urdu and the politics of the Congress brought him up to a conclusion that the Hindus and the Muslims should always take ...