Abstract
This article aims at analyzing the political and social aspects, causes and effects of promotion of Urdu in the post 1857 scenario when the decline of the Muslim rule from India and the dawn of British rule accelerated the pace of communal and lingual strife which ultimately politicized the cause of Urdu driving it to many controversies. These controversies along the politicization of the communal as well as the lingual hostilities and animosities soon triggered religious partition of the communities laying the foundations of the Pakistan movement in the later stages. This article will discuss the political, social and lingual issues pertaining to Urdu in the wake of the fiasco of the mutiny of 1857.
Highlights
Against the nefarious designs of the Hindus against Urdu, many notable Ulema like Molana Hasrat Mohani, Molana Mohammad Ali Johar and Molana Zafar Ali came forward and through their literary works teemed with the religious content; they invoked a new life to Urdu[27]
The infusion of the religious content in the poetry, in the columns of magazines and in the short stories or novels, was aimed at embarking upon consciousness among the Muslim youth to be prepared against the Hindus and their connivance with the British who had invoked the divide and rule policy very cunningly[28]
To further add to it, it was due to the efforts of the Ulema that through their religious insight and youthful inspiration, they used Urdu as the launching pad for the freedom movement of Pakistan
Summary
The best thing about their struggle in the promotion of Urdu was the infusion of the religious content in their literary works. Against the nefarious designs of the Hindus against Urdu, many notable Ulema like Molana Hasrat Mohani, Molana Mohammad Ali Johar and Molana Zafar Ali came forward and through their literary works teemed with the religious content; they invoked a new life to Urdu[27].
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