How the British spread Urdu in India - Is Urdu an Islamic Language? - Shehzad Ghias -

Today on TPE we look at Tariq Rahman's work to see if Urdu is an Islamic language and explain how the British spread Urdu in India, and why.
Was Pakistan right to impose Urdu?
Was Liaquat Ali Khan right to say Urdu is the language of a hundred million Muslims?
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[@parveensundriyal3270]

In British time it was called Hindustani language.

[@rishabhtripathi3859]

Yes

[@mohsinafzaal7159]

Agreed…….Hindi Bollywood movies were known as Hindustani movies…..

[@mehak-GB]

you are completely wrong. At first Shaurasni Prakrit evolved and form Kharboli or hindvi. This was called Hindustani. Deccani, lahori and dehlavi all were still called Hindustani or hindavi until Delhi sultanate which made persian as state language. Persian loan words added to the language and still it was called Hindavi or Hindustani. It was 13th century when shahmukhi persianized style of writing was adopted by speakers but it was called old hindi, deccani not urdu. So basically persianized version of Hindustani was also called Hindi or Hindavi or their precursor BrijBhasha and others. It was after Mughal period Aurangzeb, when it began to known as zuban e urdu muala. Bahmani sultanate became independent from Delhi sultanate Tughlaqs and used urdu in opposition to Tughlaqs persian. In 19th century, standard Hindi was promoted by extracting the effect of persian and arabic from Hindustani or Urdu to form more sanscriticized Hindi which was then advanced when modern Hindi was standardized. So basically Urdu or Hindi were synonymous and Urdu used the devnagri and other Indian scripts at one point of time but due to excessive patrionage of Muslim kingdoms, Urdu became distinct. British already knew Urdu and Hindi and they tried to divide and rule policy on language also patrionizing Hindi and Urdu making them diverted more apart. Urdu is a language which not only written in Persianized script but also in Kaithi script which was used in Bihar and even in Bengali and Devnagri script. Munshi prem chand also wrote in both scripts. Both languages Hindi and Urdu are dialects but due to much literature, and influence, they became separate languages

[@Visual-C1namo]

उर्दू भाषा लखनऊ के आस पास विकसित की गयी थी। ये भाषा उन भारतीय दोयम दर्जे के मुसलमानों के लिए बनाई गयी जो कुछ समय पहले ही लालच या जबरदस्ती मुस्लमान बनाये गए थे। बहुत सारे गरीब हिन्दू दलित जो जज़िया नहीं दे पाते थे तारीखे फ़िरोज़शाही के अनुसार उन हिन्दुओ के मुँह थूक के जबरदस्ती मुसलमान बनाया जाता था। अब इन दोयम दर्जे के मुसलमानो को उनकी अवकात में रखने के लिए जो भाषा बनाई गई थी उसे उर्दू कहते है। भारत के इतिहास में ये पहली भारतीय भाषा थी जिसकी लिपि देवनागरी नहीं थी और जो अरबी लिपि अलिफ़ बे ते में लिखी जाती थी। मुग़ल और उनके दरबारीयो की खास भाषा हमेशा तुर्की और पर्शियन ही रही थी। भारतीय मुसलमानो को जलील करने के लिए उर्दू में तमाम शब्द गढ़े गए मसलन तशरीफ़ भी वैसा ही उर्दू शब्द है। जब कोई मुसलमान दरबार में जाता था तो दरबान बोलता था। फलाने मिया अपना तशरीफ़ लाये है। तब नबाब को फलाने मिया अगर अच्छे लगे तो वे बोल देते थे अगर आप तशरीफ़ लाये है। तो अपने तशरीफ़ का हमें भी दीदार करवाईये। और इस प्रकार नवाब भारतीय मुसलमानो के तशरीफ़ शरीफ का शोषण करते थे और इसलिए भी आज भी लखनऊ में नवाबी शौक की बात आम खास है। नवाबी शौक कुछ और नहीं बल्कि तुर्को में प्रचलित पिछवाड़ा लेने और देने के शौक को ही नवाबी शौक के नाम पे भारत में जाना गया।

[@khawarnadeem1807]

​@@mehak-GB Sane analyses. Would like to read more of your analyses/comments. 👍

[@numanmalik6158]

He declared urdu as national language in english language to bengali speaking people.. wah re wah

[@musabishtiaq03]

For most intelligent paj@et, Urdu was not the language of any part of Pakistan even now only 7% of Pakistanis speak Urdu as their first language English and Urdu are used as a common medium between different ethnicities to talk with one another

[@nikhilpuri6724]

​@@musabishtiaq03k2ua read what he is saying madasachaap katwi kaum

[@haiderabbascheena532]

Bhai Sahi kaha aap nay❤

[@charnpreetsingh8952]

Lack of wisdom

[@Ankit__Shah]

​@@musabishtiaq03 He is talking about Jinnah declaring Urdu as the 'only' official language, and no other. 😂

[@Unknown-sh8kw]

Jinnah who was Gujarati speaking in English announcing Urdu as main language language to Bengali people 😂😂😂

[@Rj_Thackeray]

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[@ruchinkumar8358]

In Pakistan, people feel backward & jahil while speaking their mother tongue like Punjabi, Sindhi, Saraiki whereas in India 16 languages are official language and thousands of languages flourish, everyone is proud of their own culture and language

[@ThePakistanExperience]

Yes

[@Rj_Thackeray]

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[@firstnamelastname6976]

South Indians are refusing to speak Hindi. I have seen many videos. Why is that?

[@raajraaj4682]

​@@ThePakistanExperienceDon't get fooled by the comment section. In India , even people are ashamed of speaking in Hindi. Even Hindi is imposed on northern Indian belt otherwise most of the UP bihar people speaks Awadhi , braj bhasa, bhojpuri , Angika , maithili and all. Even today, in interior of Bihar and UP , elderly people can't speak Hindi. It's the process of nation building in which one language is standardized which can be accepted as lingua franca of particular nationality.

[@siddharthdash8946]

​@@firstnamelastname6976south indian here hindi is indo europian language are difficult to learn for person with as Dravidian language first language.

[@agonnoga6100]

Biggest irony, Jinnah himself could hardly speak Urdu as his mother tongue was Gujarati. Urdu is not a native language of Pakistan. Only Arabic can be claimed as Islamic. Rest of the languages are those of people who converted to Islam.

[@waqasmajeed6222]

Jinnah himself was speaking English while promoting Urdu. This was a great hypocrisy.

[@INDIANATHEIST526]

Arabic existed before islam. its not islamic

[@thecurious82]

I didn't know jinnah's mother tongue was gujarati

[@mahakaalvonjuggernaut420]

He couldn't speak Gujarati either. Pig eating, whisky drinking, Parsee marrying Englishman, he was. So says Yoda.

[@user-oq2rk7ep8f]

@@thecurious82 yup. He was Gujju.

[@mohsinafzaal7159]

Why didn’t we thought of declaring all the languages of Pakistan as the national languages of Pakistan? Why just one? Why not all? That shows that we cannot think outside the box 😂

[@AKumar-co7oe]

specially given that india has already done it and shown how to make it work 40 years ago

[@ramendradwivedi4530]

South Indian and most of the Indian Muslims also debate with me that Urdu is their language however I m from Lucknow and try to tell them the history but they are adamant in believing that Urdu is their language I don’t understand that phenomenon till now why they don’t read or learn their native language like Telugu Marathi etc But kya kr saktey hai they are all real bhakt of their chiefs

[@asfandali1554]

Exactly they should learn their native language Rehna wahan h tou wahan ki zuban seekhein ya for better understanding ofQuran they can learn Arabic but native language ko ignore kaisy kr skty

[@AbhishekG026]

​@@asfandali1554ab aap hi samjhayein hum Kafiro ki baat kahan manenge 🤡

[@Rj_Thackeray]

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[@rootjay]

If urdu is muslim Nuclear weapons certainly is a jew Lets boycott that

[@rishabhtripathi3859]

No, Nuclear weapon is atheist.

[@trilokyamohanchakra6351]

😂😂 by that logic gun is Buddhist ​@@rishabhtripathi3859

[@Rj_Thackeray]

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[@SuvaMukherjee]

😂😂😂 yep.

[@QabilAGhor]

Urdu is not Muslim, but Urdu probably has more Islamic literature than in other language! I have lived in Arab countries, and they simply don't publish as many Islamic books in Arabic and Pakistan does in Urdu. If you include magazines, that would certainly be the case.

[@saifsamo9750]

I personally don't believe Languages have Religion. But still if Arabization is the only criteria for a language to be Islamic then by that criteria *Sindhi* is the most Islamic Language of Subcontinent because :- 1) Sindhi is the first Indo Aryan Language to come in contact with both Arabic & Persian due to its geographical proximity to Muslim World. 2) Sindhi is the first language of Subcontinent in which Holy Qur'an was translated in a time when Urdu was not even born in suburbs of Delhi !!

[@junaid_2107]

Lol, khud ko contradict karna accha lagta hai?..What is so special about being in contact first with Arabs?..Kerala had more earlier contact with Arab than Sindh, but they dont see it as some achievement.

[@pagan-540]

​@@junaid_2107karala muslim people Arabian people?

[@junaid_2107]

@@pagan-540 well, some mixing did happen with Arabs but Kerala people dont consider it some achievement, they are proud of being Malayali

[@saifsamo9750]

@@junaid_2107I am not contradicting myself because I already began my statement with clarification that I personally don't subscribe to this logic . Secondly, Kerala was never a part of Caliphate but Sindh directly remained the eastern most province of Arabic Rashidun Caliphate for a long time , ultimately paving the way for direct entry of many Arabic albeit Islamic words into Sindhi day to day lexicon. Moreover Sindh is located just next door to Iran & hence many Persian words made inroads in Sindhi too !!

[@ahteshamahmad9676]

@@saifsamo9750 Arabs are invaders and looters who came to our indian subcontinent. Sindh does not need any Arab. It is a place of 5000 years old civilization. We were already advance and developed when arabs were living in ignorance

[@rajveergaur6607]

This isn't a Pakistani problem. It's problem with most muslims living in Indian subcontinent. In my state of Maharashtra the native language is marathi still majority of muslims living here for generations claims Urdu is there mother tongue. They also has government funded special Urdu school for them.😅 Just a example of superiority complex and identity crisis.

[@ahirguru]

@@AbhishekG026😂😂😂

[@ahirguru]

@@AbhishekG026Nishaniyaa identities 👍🏻

[@ramendradwivedi4530]

They don’t understand that

[@chandreshmehta2399]

Ahmedabadi musalman speak a typical dialect, it's not hindi not urdu not Gujarati. They very well know Gujarati but they don't speak Gujarati amongst musalman. They just continue to speak in that ugly mixture of Gujarati and hindi/urdu. They tell other Gujaratis that this is Urdu..!!!

[@ahirguru]

@@chandreshmehta2399 its kind of kutchhi language ..See Gujju muslim are mostly Come from Kutchh n Sindh side n settled in Gujarat ..So thats make them different ..And Pure Gujarati muslim Like Meman Khoja Bohra they speak Gujarati like Gujarati ppl ...Even In Karachi Gujarati muslim speak Gujarati i heard They have Gujarati news papers too in karachi 👍🏻 Correct me if i m wrong🙏🏻

[@Danishxbr]

From Indian Context : Language is never related to religion . It's always and always regional . Whether you belong to Muslim or Hindu they speak Urdu without knowing it in Central and Northern part of India . Right wing propagandist have made Urdu Religion of Muslim

[@ThePakistanExperience]

Yes, quite interesting how right wing in India often allies with the narratives of the Muslim League during partition.

[@Football-Pundit-n9m]

@@ThePakistanExperience Yes, thanks for accepting that BJP of today is exactly like Muslim league of 1947. Basically Pakistan is BJP in green, which India could end up as if we dont stop this Right Wing nonsense.

[@shatnermohanty6678]

​@@ThePakistanExperiencethat's quite brave of you to say that 👏

[@avinashvarma108]

​@@Football-Pundit-n9mlol says a momin with a Hindu identity

[@avinashvarma108]

​@@Football-Pundit-n9mthat's why india under BJP rule became 5th largest economy in the world and poised to become 3rd largest economy in the world by 2029,unlike Pakistan which is surviving on the bheek given by IMF and can get economically default in the coming years😅😅😅

[@AbdullahKurd.]

Declaring Urdu as the national language while speaking English. 🤯 That's why we call him the Quaid

[@Khattakspeaks3]

You wouldn’t believe Shehzad bhai, one of my friend is the firm believer of Pakistani nationalism and Urduization of Pakistan. One day in a conversation he was saying that only the people who speaks Urdu and Arabic will go to heaven and he was damn serious about it and still is. He is not some uneducated guy done his masters on Philosophy (gold medalist) a masters in journalism and mphil in philosophy. Works in the frontier post these days. He is also not from qaum e youth, they are some other people

[@osamaanees8406]

Burger log is education system sy banty hn. Aam aadmi ny Pakistan k local culture aur insaniyat ko sambhala hoa hai. Pakistan mein zada tr log school nahi jaty. Agar jaty hoty to aap k dost ki trha aur bhi zada log hoty. Our education system is absolute trash. My Language professor from sindh said Urdu was a Muslim language like what? I ask him a simple question. Did Urdu read the qalema that its now a Muslim? How can language have a religion? He didnt answer.

[@ThePakistanExperience]

Insane

[@atulkumar-pr4yo]

Jinnah did not know urdu. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@atulkumar-pr4yo]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@marajahmed7858]

bro thinks he's so cool

[@Rj_Thackeray]

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[@Gopu-y6g]

Jinnah spoke fluent gujrati which was his mother tongue.Even conversation between him and gandhi and sardar patel were in gujrati.

[@stoicforall]

Urdu will be our national language, says Jinnah in English in a British accent, unironically.

[@SARWSiddiqui]

The Muslim elite of the subcontinent have traditionally spoken Arabic and Persian. Urdu / Hindustani was the language of the military and middle classes. It is not a myth that Urdu is Islamic due to the fact that Muslims wrote Hindustani in Arabic letters and Hindus wrote the same language in Sanskrit script.

[@shatnermohanty6678]

I think Munshi Premchand wrote in Urdu

[@SARWSiddiqui]

@@shatnermohanty6678 His writings on poverty, exploitation and treatment of women are still applicable to South Asia today - regardless of language, religion or nationality.

[@kgabk]

I appreciate the points made, but if one disregards the script used, then it would appear that there is/was no other difference between Hindustani and Urdu as spoken languages (an opinion that Javed Akhtar has often expressed)

[@shatnermohanty6678]

This idea of Urdu being Islamic and Hindi being Hindu was triggered by the arrival of the British In earlier times , children used to have education in both Urdu and Hindi . I have given example of Premchand . Devaki Nandan Khatri , author of the historical fantasy novel Chandrakanta , also had his education in both Urdu and Hindi . And if we search , we may find examples of many other people. Historian Sumit Sarkar notes that in the 18th and the bulk of the 19th century Urdu had been the language of culture over north India, for Hindus as much as Muslims For the decade of 1881-90, Sarkar gives figures which showed that the circulation of Urdu newspapers was twice that of Hindi newspapers and there were 55% more Urdu books as Hindi books So your comment that Muslims wrote in Arabic script and Hindus wrote in Sanskrit script is not totally accurate

[@imranayaz9646]

The core issue is that the majority of Pakistanis are Sunni Hanafi Muslims, further divided into sub-sects such as Barelvi and Deobandi. Both Barelvi and Deobandi movements originated in Uttar Pradesh (the Hindi/Urdu belt). As a result, Indian Muslims learned Islam from Urdu-speaking Barelvi and Deobandi clerics like Ahmad Raza Khan and Ashraf Ali Thanvi. Urdu became the lingua franca, but a significant issue arose in Punjab. Since Sikhism was closely tied to the Punjabi language, Punjabi Muslims began to teach their children the language of the Barelvi and Deobandi clerics instead of Punjabi. When Jinnah urged Bengalis to adopt Urdu as the national language, they were offended. However, when he suggested the same to Punjabis, many of them, like my ancestors, responded that they already had the Urdu-obsessed, Sialkot-born Iqbal, who was central to Punjabi identity. The Punjabi elite, ashamed of their own language and enamored with Urdu, aligned with Urdu-speaking migrants from India's Hindi-Urdu belt. This obsession with Urdu, coupled with a bias against native languages, contributed to the marginalization of the languages of Punjab, Sindh, KPK, and Balochistan. In Karachi, Sindhis were even derogatorily referred to as 'Ghair Maqami' (non-locals) in their own province of Sindh.

[@chetan_naik]

Why do subcontinental Muslims take up Arabic names for themselves instead of local names like Ramesh, Suresh, Sachin, Rahul etc?

[@shaffilosblanc]

That's such an awsome question. Take this money 💰

[@Fawad-b2j]

For Muslim he can opt any name, no problem if it is hindi or sanskrit but It does not have any thing against Islamic basic principle. For example Muslim use Aftab and hindu use suraj but have same meaning.

[@mehak-GB]

Muslims can use any name but it should not be related to other gods and godesses and its meaning should not be having bad meanings. For example Sachin is linked to Hindu god Indra. Muslims donot believe that Indra is a god . This is against basic tenet of Islam which is Toheed , meaning that believe on one God Allah who is the only One. Ramesh is for Rama - a religious figure again. Suresh means Ruler of gods. We Muslim dot believe that there are multiple gods as word suresh presents. So Muslims are very keen on selecting names. Abdullah e.g means sevant of God not Gods. There are many non-arabic names Muslims of Indian subcontinent do use but their meanings has to align with ideology and their meanings should not be bad. I can quote examples; Heer, Sohni, Veena, Meera, Neelum, Momal, Sassui, Sanam, Sindhu, Marvi, Sorath, Raja, Rao, Amar, Kamal, Dulla, Ranjha, Veer, Mumtaz, Sitara, Feroz, Abdul Kalam, Azad, Shahbaz, Pervaiz, Pasha, Parsa, Anchan, Snghay, Rozi, Gulsher, Afrasiyab, Malala, Gulab, Raisham, Neelum, and there are various names which have no arabic origins

[@chetan_naik]

@@mehak-GB Sikhs in this aspect are cool. They also believe in one God but don't go into fully Arabizing themselves.

[@jollyaliinc.1616]

@chetan_naik Islam and Arabic language go hand to hand There is a reason why Quran and Islamic Prayers are in Arabic why don't Hindus adopt Muslim names then?

[@rishabhtripathi3859]

Sanskrit is important for Hindus as Arabic is for Muslims.

[@PradeepKumar-bh6ly]

No Hindu saint has spoken Sanskrit in years. The Bhakti movement was all about regional languages. Goraknath ,Kabhir, Nanak, Meera, Dadu Dayal, Raidas, Tukaram, Ramakrishna Paramhans and thousands more. In Hinduism you only need Sanatan Truth . Truth is beyond language.

[@rishabhtripathi3859]

@@PradeepKumar-bh6ly I’m not talking about saints but scriptures. All ancient scriptures are in Sanskrit , so we give Sanskrit a holy status. That’s same for Muslims as Quran and Hadiths are in Arabic.

[@nawoxare5194]

May be for brahman like you. But rest of us, leave us alone with our own prakrit languages. Our god can understand what we speak with them in whichever tongue we know.

[@PradeepKumar-bh6ly]

@@rishabhtripathi3859 Muslims are lost in translation. They think Allah is limited to the word Allah. If you try to understand Kabir, you will realise he is teaching nothing but pure Vedanta and Upanishad. I am not against Sanskrit but the best thing about Hinduism is it is older than the ocean and fresher than running water.

[@rishabhtripathi3859]

@@nawoxare5194 Whaaat? Ramayan is in Sanskrit, Mahabharat is in Sanskrit, Bhagvadgita is in Sanskrit. Even Prakrit is evolved from Sanskrit. You have very less knowledge about languages. And Bhakti movement or Sufi movement started much later i.e. after 1000 AD.

[@ahteshamahmad9676]

As a Saraiki from Multan, i 1000% agree with you. Urdu born in UP and became language of Heera mandi prostitutes and then imposed on punjabis, saraikis, sindhis, pashtoons, bengalis, baloch and others by Moom Phali Zinah or Jinnah

[@AbdulKareem-cj1yv]

Ager urdu ko hatay to pher kis language ma bat Kary ga dosry language ka bandy sa tum log khud Pakistan ko Tor rahy ho language war start kar ka, ya Meri bat yad rakhna ya Jo urdu ka khilaf is KZbin cheenel doshmani start kar de ha na is ka effect AP ko future ma Nazar ahy ga ya bat Meri lekh lo ager urdu het Gai dosry din language war, pher do din ka bad new countries donia ka map par ahen gi😂😂😂😂😂

[@RizwanShaikh]

Thori history parhlo, take dimagh khule or lisaniat se nikal kar soch sako

[@ahteshamahmad9676]

@@AbdulKareem-cj1yv You are saying as if 100% of Pakistan speaks and understands Urdu. Just visit rural areas of Punjab and Sindh, many people have not idea about urdu. In india, there are 22+ official languages. If they are surviving and progressing then we can too

[@ahteshamahmad9676]

@@RizwanShaikh Oh sir ji zubaan kisi vi qom di ruh hondey hey. Agar koi qom apni zubaan ko peran taley rond devey tey pakar key kisi hera mandi di zubaan ko bai vaney tey val oon qom da khuda hi hafiz hey. Saku kisi vi zubaan naal koi masla kai ni lekin sadi zubaanan ko vi ta izat tey maqam miley.

[@haseebmustafa5443]

heera mandi is in punjab lol😅

[@QabilAGhor]

*Urdu has ALWAYS been "Persianized" because it came about as a result of the interaction between Persian speaking Afghan/Central Asian immigrans and local Khari-boli speaking people of Delhi.* The only thing that the British did was to popularize it because they wanted more literacy and secondly to reduce Persian influence. But Urdu already existed, and Ghalib ,Zauq, and even the king, Bahadur Shah Zafar, were already writing Urdu poems. Pakistan's Qaumi Tarana is NOT in Farsi. It is 100% Urdu. As an Urdu-speaking person, I understand EVERY word of it. Just because your Urdu is bad, it doesn't mean it is in a foreign language.

[@heheboiii3566]

In India, Urdu is considered Islamic, And hindi as hindu (stereotypical) There is some truth to it, most Urdu speakers are Muslims and hindi is spoken by the masses in North India (hindi belt)

[@12SPASTIC12]

But the masses in north India is like 15-20% Muslim and they speak Hindi as well?

[@heheboiii3566]

@@12SPASTIC12 yes, most Muslims in North India speak Hindi, I had Muslim friends who can't speak ,read or write urdu🦋

[@Lakshyarajkalra]

Hindi, Urdu in its base which is spoken by masses is intelligible. Most people speak it without knowing the difference. At that is what the truth is.

[@vijaysontyal2788]

@@Lakshyarajkalra in normal conversation there is no difference between urdu and hindi generally in north India people who try to differentiate themselves from other religion use sanskrit and arabic persian words in conversation.

[@mehak-GB]

@@vijaysontyal2788 hindi and urdu are dialects of same language but British used divide and rule policy and promoted both dialects. Urdu has persian influence and has been written in kaithi script, bengali script, and Bahmi script also at one point of history.

[@The_apple_panda]

Urdu agar muslim language hoti toh Saudi, Indonesia,middle east ke muslim bhi Urdu bolte😅

[@Rj_Thackeray]

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[@chandreshmehta2399]

You skipped Urdu influence on Bollywood. After Bachans era Bollywood started to use Bambaiya Hindi but before that Urdu was dominant. Secondly influence of Persian on regional languages like Gujarati is extraordinary. Still today Gujarati language which is used for government correspondence has majority persian words.

[@SumitKumar-em7qp]

Now the script of movies goes around in Devanagari lipi.... Sutro ne bataya tha.

[@mehak-GB]

Hindi and Urdu are dialects of each other with same base words. The problem started in British era which tried to divide both dialects as different languages.

[@Rj_Thackeray]

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[@sharjeeljawaid]

Languages have no religion. Urdu has been the language of both Muslims and Hindus [Sikhs included] in North India for centuries. There is a connection between Urdu and Islam. Urdu stand third behind Arabic and Persian in Islamic literature.

[@rohand04]

Yes my grandparents used to only read Urdu literature even though being a Christian. But in today's India

[@rgyalchanhussain9966]

In Pakistan, there is a linguistic heirarchy that’s deeply rooted in the history of its creation. English is at the top of that heirarchy as it was the language of our former colonial rulers, followed closely by Urdu ( the language of western Pakistan’s political elite ) . Sophisticated chauvinism and hate against other regional languages and ethnic groups is always done by misusing these two languages. Punjabi is limited for crude and lewd remarks. If someone wants to abuse another of being dumb, they will apply a caricatured and distorted Pashtu accent. Sindhi, Baluchi, Seriaki, Balti, Shina, Burushaski, Hazaragi etc are considered even more inferior languages and not to be spoken or discussed.

[@firstnamelastname6976]

You are right. Some people associate language with being uncultured and it should be discouraged. But That should be done without bashing urdu.

[@saleemnaqvi2200]

I was staggered by the intensity of your sarcasm towards Urdu.

[@SARWSiddiqui]

The Muslims of the subcontinent lost a big chunk of their history and cultural heritage by losing Persian and Arabic.

[@junaid_2107]

🤣🤣, they lost cultural heritage by disowning their Indian roots and pretending to be Persian, Arabic..My God, how people like take the exact 180 opposite lessons from history and even this video

[@tameemasim7716]

@@junaid_2107 so you are saying that Pashtuns,Baloch have roots from india

[@hotfun07]

​@@tameemasim7716Pashtoons and Baloch definitely are BEING RULED BY PUNJABIS AND UP BIHARID 😅😅😅

[@junaid_2107]

@@tameemasim7716 Pashtun baloch have majorly Afghan and Iranic roots, Punjabi, Sindhi have majorly Indian roots. Punjabi and Sindhi are the majority of Pakistan, Baloch are only 5%, Pashtuns little higher but nowhere close to Punjabi or Sindhi. Hence majority of Pakistan has Indian roots. You understand simple math?..I know Pakistanis have this inherent rascism taught to them that Persian/Arab/Turkic DNA is superior to Indian DNA (which is a ridiculous idea) and hence try to deny their Indian heritage.

[@vijaysontyal2788]

@@junaid_2107 because this is the only way to create a separate nation from India without denying their Indian identity it was impossible for them to create a separate new country. but certainly this process of islamisation cause them their linguistic and cultural identity as well.

[@mohsin1918]

Urdu is aboriginal amalgamation of few languages whose prentending has gone very successful

[@saleemnaqvi2200]

Brother, it might have started as you have described but in the last 200 years it has become a rich language in its own right.

[@QabilAGhor]

All the Islamic literature is in Urdu! Besides Arabic, there is more Islamic literature in Urdu than in any other language. In fact, there might be more Islamic books in Urdu than in Arabic.

[@riichobamin7612]

Whenever someone in India tries to impose Hindi using the "Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan" logic, I also point towards what happened between East and West Pakistan.

[@AbhishekG026]

Nobody does. We have 3 language formula for that specific reason.

[@Rj_Thackeray]

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[@Abro271]

Almost 57 countries in the world have more than one national languages non of the country have foreign national language except Pakistan

[@maryamwaqar7648]

Urdu and Hindi were the lingua franca of South Asia, it's wasn't supposed to be a "Islamic Language". Languages do not have a religion, in fact all the different languages and cultures that we have are a sign from Allah, so people can think about diversity and learn from each other. It's sad that desis have turned it into a source of arrogance...

[@junaid_2107]

Not desis, Pakistan did it. Stop lumping in everyone when its your founding fathers ideology that started this cancer.

[@AbhishekG026]

Not desis but pakis for themselves, by themselves. Don't club us in with your melodrama, we aren't you. 🎀

[@firstnamelastname6976]

All we need in Pakistan is to promote regional languages while keeping the urdu as a lingua franca. No one is forcing anyone to not speak their mother language. But these people will use this issue for political reasons.

[@junaid_2107]

@@firstnamelastname6976 Ab kya promote karoge after 76 years, your state has failed, 1971 was last chance to learn lessons

[@haristahir3472]

I could understand why Jinnah wanted a unifying language but urdu is certainly not a Muslim language.

[@avinashmishra7735]

if he was not stupid, he should have made Arabic the unifying official language of Pakistan. Although Jinnah was smarter than Nehru and Gandhi combined, but as a Brahmin who believe in 2 Nation Theory probably more than even Jinnah would have believed in; I would say even Jinnah was also stupid to a great extent. Even if it would have taken a great amount of difficuly for a generation or two, but why couldn't he dare to make Arabic the national language of Pakistan? I know he couldn't survive longer but still he should have made it clear atleast on his death bed because it was that important to make Arabic the prime language. Urdu may be your 2nd language and regional languages may be your mother tongue, but Arabic should have been made the official language in Pakistan if he was really that serious to take this 2 Nation Theory to next level in the civilizational realm of a nation's journey. It had many strategic benefits - A) 2 Nation Theory would have been more stronger because Urdu is unfortunately weakening it. In fact it's bringing India and Pakistan closer to understanding each others. B) Arabic would have been easier to force upon Bangladeshis than Urdu. C) Lesser political conflict today in Pakistan in the name of languages. D) Better foreign relations with Muslim countries. I mean more easy money. Just joking 🤣 E) Pakistanis would have got more acceptability in the markets of Arab today, which means more employement and more remittances. Paisa hi Paisa hota. 🤣 F) Indian Muslims who try to hide their inferior complexity today, would have openly started looking towards Pakistanis for thier command in Arabic language. G) It would have injected organic superior psychology and closer relationship with Arabs in the minds of Pakistanis and your Ummah would have been stronger than what it is today. I know Imran Khan tried to make Arabic mandatory for every school in Pakistan, but this should have been done on the very first day itself. You may be thinking why I as a proud Hindutva boy saying this. But that's for another day to explain. Bas itna samajh lo - Arabic in Pakistan would have been WIN-WIN for both Hindus in India and Muslims in Pakistan. Baki Chanakya philosophy k hisab se Jinnah Nehru Gandhi can be ranked 1 , 2, 3 in strategy making.

[@MrReon1806]

Interesting fact: india has no national language but 22 official languages and respect and promote 1652 different languages in India. India has no official father of nation: but people of India out of love call Gandhiji as father of nation. In short when world saw India is doing blunder (during 1947) by promoting Multi lingual cultural religious diversity and will face problem in future is proving wrong in 21st century. And this very thing has become an USP of India around the world now :)

[@ThePakistanExperience]

That’s what I tell everyone who mentions that Pakistan needed a national language to stay united. Pakistan enforced one and split in two countries India did not and stayed united

[@ThePakistanExperience]

That’s what I tell everyone who mentions that Pakistan needed a national language to stay united. Pakistan enforced one and split in two countries India did not and stayed united

[@AbhishekG026]

​@@ThePakistanExperiencewell you now kind of not have a choice, apart from having Urdu as your official/national language. 1. The inferiority complex among converts to hate their native Dharmic roots, which sadly occupies the language too, even though langauge continues as a thread despite religious beliefs in diff times. 2. And if you start promoting local languages, you would very much see your northern (KPK) and SW (Balochistan) borders flaring up. That would legitimise their struggle against the pak state. So, no choice. Too late.

[@avinashmishra7735]

Although Jinnah was smarter than Nehru and Gandhi combined, but as a Brahmin who believe in 2 Nation Theory probably more than even Jinnah would have believed in; I would say even Jinnah was also stupid to a great extent. Even if it would have taken a great amount of difficuly for a generation or two, but why couldn't he dare to make Arabic the national language of Pakistan? I know he couldn't survive longer but still he should have made it clear atleast on his death bed because it was that important to make Arabic the prime language. Urdu may be your 2nd language and regional languages may be your mother tongue, but Arabic should have been made the official language in Pakistan if he was really that serious to take this 2 Nation Theory to next level in the civilizational realm of a nation's journey. It had many strategic benefits - A) 2 Nation Theory would have been more stronger because Urdu is unfortunately weakening it. In fact it's bringing India and Pakistan closer to understanding each others. B) Arabic would have been easier to force upon Bangladeshis than Urdu. C) Lesser political conflict today in Pakistan in the name of languages. D) Better foreign relations with Muslim countries. I mean more easy money. Just joking 🤣 E) Pakistanis would have got more acceptability in the markets of Arab today, which means more employement and more remittances. Paisa hi Paisa hota. 🤣 F) Indian Muslims who try to hide their inferior complexity today, would have openly started looking towards Pakistanis for thier command in Arabic language. G) It would have injected organic superior psychology and closer relationship with Arabs in the minds of Pakistanis and your Ummah would have been stronger than what it is today. I know Imran Khan tried to make Arabic mandatory for every school in Pakistan, but this should have been done on the very first day itself. You may be thinking why I as a proud Hindutva boy saying this. But that's for another day to explain. Bas itna samajh lo - Arabic in Pakistan would have been WIN-WIN for both Hindus in India and Muslims in Pakistan. Baki Chanakya philosophy k hisab se Jinnah Nehru Gandhi can be ranked 1 , 2, 3 in strategy making.

[@Rj_Thackeray]

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[@Saurabh2185]

Persian was the standard language in islamic rulers court.

[@crazytelugu2776]

01:04 khaid e azam announced as Urdu will be national launguage in English 😂😂😂

[@007chanakya4]

Well done! I appreciate the witty way you present your case.

[@ThePakistanExperience]

🙌

[@Rj_Thackeray]

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[@Indus720]

Mashallah…. Urdu played a significant role in Pakistan movement.

[@junaid_2107]

from 7:05 onwards, Shehzad basically debunked the 2 Nation Theory and called it out for what it is "not based in fact". I wonder if his Pakistani audience realizes this.

[@avinashmishra7735]

Although Jinnah was smarter than Nehru and Gandhi combined, but as a Brahmin who believe in 2 Nation Theory probably more than even Jinnah would have believed in; I would say even Jinnah was also stupid to a great extent. Even if it would have taken a great amount of difficuly for a generation or two, but why couldn't he dare to make Arabic the national language of Pakistan? I know he couldn't survive longer but still he should have made it clear atleast on his death bed because it was that important to make Arabic the prime language. Urdu may be your 2nd language and regional languages may be your mother tongue, but Arabic should have been made the official language in Pakistan if he was really that serious to take this 2 Nation Theory to next level in the civilizational realm of a nation's journey. It had many strategic benefits - A) 2 Nation Theory would have been more stronger because Urdu is unfortunately weakening it. In fact it's bringing India and Pakistan closer to understanding each others. B) Arabic would have been easier to force upon Bangladeshis than Urdu. C) Lesser political conflict today in Pakistan in the name of languages. D) Better foreign relations with Muslim countries. I mean more easy money. Just joking 🤣 E) Pakistanis would have got more acceptability in the markets of Arab today, which means more employement and more remittances. Paisa hi Paisa hota. 🤣 F) Indian Muslims who try to hide their inferior complexity today, would have openly started looking towards Pakistanis for thier command in Arabic language. G) It would have injected organic superior psychology and closer relationship with Arabs in the minds of Pakistanis and your Ummah would have been stronger than what it is today. I know Imran Khan tried to make Arabic mandatory for every school in Pakistan, but this should have been done on the very first day itself. You may be thinking why I as a proud Hindutva boy saying this. But that's for another day to explain. Bas itna samajh lo - Arabic in Pakistan would have been WIN-WIN for both Hindus in India and Muslims in Pakistan. Baki Chanakya philosophy k hisab se Jinnah Nehru Gandhi can be ranked 1 , 2, 3 in strategy making.

[@illuminati5070]

Salute to Pakistan experience for speaking the truth... 🫡🫡🫡

[@ThePakistanExperience]

🙌

[@Raghuram_2894]

People when Urdu was first selected as language by a Brit. Muslims rejected unanimously in the 19th century. Later the same Muslims accepted in 1920s.

[@abdullahdanish7908]

Urdu is islamic language of India. From kpk to Bangladesh

[@ThePakistanExperience]

No

[@MegaKoolboys]

Sent from Delhi, India

[@kanwarpreetbaweja1698]

India-Pakistan Urdu-Hindi Unnecessary & artificial divisions that won’t stand the test of time Wait & Watch

[@vsy00007]

Hindustani was highly persianised to form Urdu also script is not native to India …..The main purpose for creating Urdu was to segregate Muslim and create new identity for them….which eventually lead to concept of Two nation theory…

[@zebrunstate2815]

As a Hindu I can understand Urdu very well. Bcoz Urdu is Hindi written in different Script. Urdu borrowed Grammar and many words from Hindi That’s why no one from Iran aur Arabia will understood Urdu

[@Shva927]

The only reason y urdu is adopted by muslim is cause it is closer to Arabic!

[@MuhammadShayanSheikh101]

Awesome man. I love when talents like arise from my nation Pakistan.... And love your way simplifying and explaining things clearly... Hoping to see some great content in this channel. Hopefully you'll teach us something and break some more myths like this one. And liked your Videos on Economics and wanna say that keep showing the world what we've got. Thanks a lot

[@ThePakistanExperience]

❤️🙌

[@avinashmishra7735]

@@ThePakistanExperience Although Jinnah was smarter than Nehru and Gandhi combined, but as a Brahmin who believe in 2 Nation Theory probably more than even Jinnah would have belibved in; I would say even Jinnah was also stupid to a great extent. Even it would have a taken a great amount of difficuly for a generation or two, but why couldn't he dare to make Arabic the national language of Pakistan? I know he couldn't survive longer but still he should have made it clear atleast on his death bed because it was that important to make Arabic the the prime language. Urdu may be your 2nd language and regional languages may be your mother tongue, but Arabic should have been made the official language in Pakistan if he was really that serious to take this 2 Nation Theory to next level in the civilizational realm of a nation's journey. It had many strategic benefits - A) 2 Nation Theory would have been more stronger because Urdu is unfortunately weakening it. In fact it's bringing India and Pakistan closer to understanding each others. B) Arabic would have been easier to force upon Bangladeshis than Urdu. C) Pakistanis would have got more acceptability in the markets of Arab today. D) Indian Muslims who try to hide their inferior complexity today, would have openly started looking towards Pakistanis for thier command in Arabic language. E) It would have injected organic superior psychology and closer relationship with Arabs in the minds of Pakistanis and your Ummah would have been stronger than what it is today. I know Imran Khan tried to make Arabic mandatory for every school in Pakistan, but this should have been done on the very first day itself. You may be thinking why I as a proud Hindutva boy saying this. But that's for another day to explain. Bas itna samajh lo - Arabic in Pakistan would have been WIN-WIN for both Hindus in India and Muslims in Pakistan. Baki Chanakya philosophy k hisab se Jinnah Nehru Gnadhi can be ranked 1 , 2, 3 in strategy making.

[@xzx255]

Urdu is the language I want to learn and I am a hindu brahmin by birth 😂😂😂 Guys this is all tricks of this sub continent's leaders !! Language doesn't have any religion.

[@ParipurnaMishra]

I am hindu my mother tongue is urdu i live in india

[@Rj_Thackeray]

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[@rahdar2008]

I have heard shabbar zaidi in a show, that their forefathers came here (Pakistan) to teach culture to pashtuns and others. I was shocked that they still think this way. If you want I can share the video with you.

[@ThePakistanExperience]

Share That’s racist

[@XYZ-ui1gx]

Language religion ki nahi, Language region ki hoti h.. Thats why india❤, we didn't have any official language... Hindi...urdu..begali...etc..all are our language...

[@Rj_Thackeray]

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[@vicelikestinger]

You did well to mention the considerable role of the British in promoting Urdu in all regions under their rule in the Subcontinent. That was because the British knew that for a colonial force to maintain rule and stability in a region, it was paramount for all the colonial administrators to communicate well in the local language. But as we know India and the subcontinent is extremely diverse in cultures and languages, perhaps more than anywhere else in the world. That created a logistical nightmare for any foreign occupier to maintain rule. So a 'Bastardised' version of multiple local languages was created and promoted to maintain a middle-ground where all district administrators could focus on one language and the local populace can somewhat understand the new language in some capacity. A la Urdu...

[@ansh_u_r]

Most hilarious thing you listen is when a Pakistani Punjabi speaks Urdu.

[@mailhitendra]

My name is Hitendra حیتیندرا and I love Urdu❤

[@RajuAnbhorkar]

Jo bhi ho Miya, zaban tehzib wala pyar ya phir pyar wali tehzib hai Mashallah 🎉

[@Rj_Thackeray]

INDIAN BHAI LOG BOYCOTT KARO PAKISTANI CHANNEL. BHAI USKI PROBLEM HAI. HUM MEIN KYA. YEH ADMI HYPOCRITE HAI.

[@AmitSingh-eh6gy]

Listening to his speech - he feels like an imposter..... But it also reminds me, Pakistani love to become fans of imposters

[@naseemsoherwardy2534]

All work of Muslim Indians in Islam done in urdu

[@n2201]

Urdu made Pakistan culturally more closer to India

[@avinashmishra7735]

Exactly. Jo socha Jinnah ne uuska ulta ho gya. Although Jinnah was smarter than Nehru and Gandhi combined, but as a Brahmin who believe in 2 Nation Theory probably more than even Jinnah would have believed in; I would say even Jinnah was also stupid to a great extent. Even it would have a taken a great amount of difficuly for a generation or two, but why couldn't he dare to make Arabic the national language of Pakistan? I know he couldn't survive longer but still he should have made it clear atleast on his death bed because it was that important to make Arabic the the prime language. Urdu may be your 2nd language and regional languages may be your mother tongue, but Arabic should have been made the official language in Pakistan if he was really that serious to take this 2 Nation Theory to next level in the civilizational realm of a nation's journey. It had many strategic benefits - A) 2 Nation Theory would have been more stronger because Urdu is unfortunately weakening it. In fact it's bringing India and Pakistan closer to understanding each others. B) Arabic would have been easier to force upon Bangladeshis than Urdu. C) Lesser political conflict today in Pakistan in the name of languages. D) Better foreign relations with Muslim countries. I mean more easy money. Just joking 🤣 E) Pakistanis would have got more acceptability in the markets of Arab today, which means more employement and more remittances. Paisa hi Paisa hota. 🤣 F) Indian Muslims who try to hide their inferior complexity today, would have openly started looking towards Pakistanis for thier command in Arabic language. G) It would have injected organic superior psychology and closer relationship with Arabs in the minds of Pakistanis and your Ummah would have been stronger than what it is today. I know Imran Khan tried to make Arabic mandatory for every school in Pakistan, but this should have been done on the very first day itself. You may be thinking why I as a proud Hindutva boy saying this. But that's for another day to explain. Bas itna samajh lo - Arabic in Pakistan would have been WIN-WIN for both Hindus in India and Muslims in Pakistan. Baki Chanakya philosophy k hisab se Jinnah Nehru Gnadhi can be ranked 1 , 2, 3 in strategy making.

[@n2201]

​@@avinashmishra7735that's giving too much credit to the leadership in Congress and Muslim league. They had no actual say in partition. British wanted to leave a partition of British India and so they did. They used Muslim League to help them do it. There are various separatist movements in all of south asia has any of them succeeded? not possible until the ruling government wants it

[@avinashmishra7735]

@@n2201 Ofcourse Britishers had the last say in everything regarding partition. No denying in that buddy. But I am pointing towards policy decisions that Jinnah & Nehru made after Independence. Are you saying it was britishers who forced Jinnah to annouce Urdu will be the unifying national language of Pakistan?

[@rootjay]

Is URDU is islamic then its very much shia islamic 😂 Cause mostly persian words are there in urdu (turkish , hindi and arabic also there )

[@Desigirl876]

Not all Iranians are Shia, they only became Shia under the Safavids. Persian was used as a court language not just under Mughals but also for a while in the Ottoman Empire.

[@rootjay]

@@Desigirl876 I am talking in current context it was just a satire on language being religious.

[@Abdullah-uv9nk]

The Persian came from Afghanistan not Iran

[@pradjosh1]

Gujrati Jinnah ne Punjabi Sindhi Bengali aur pashtun par Urdu nafiz kari English mai😂😂kamal ka banana republic banaya. 😂😂

[@SARWSiddiqui]

@@pradjosh1 Much better to have one lingua franca than having over 100 regional languages + English.

[@AbhishekG026]

What else did you expect? There is no Idea of Pakistan except from the ideological hatred towards native Dharmic faiths (Hindu/Buddhist/Jain/Sikh) and Islamic extremism. The paradox of Pakistan - based on Islam, the more extremism it is, the more fragmented the state. Islam is the glue to keep Pakistan surviving. The day people get frustrated over too much extremism and rise of Murtads (as is witnessing) and start rejecting Islam, Pak will balkanise. (e.g., Protests in GB and PoJK, Baloch freedom movement, KPK and NWFP ungovernability) 🎀⚔️

[@pradjosh1]

@@SARWSiddiqui there is a word called - "Diversity" - which unfortunately pakistaniyon ki dictionary mai nahi hai.

[@Rj_Thackeray]

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[@m.hussainusmani4328]

i also dont get this why many pakistanis says that muhajir bring urdu with them like sorry for saying this Bihar, Madras, Rajhistan,Mahrashtra,Mysore didn't speak urdu it was also inpose their like my grandfather was a purely bhojpuri speaking and when he came here the people of madras speak tamil, telgu, malyali but ppl over here also impose urdu on us too

[@ThePakistanExperience]

Yes, there’s been an erasure of mohajir identities too

[@JeetuKumarYadav-ow8jq]

Love from a Bhojpuri speaking district of Bihar, India. Rohtas district. Proud to be a Bhojpuriya

[@rohitrivedi]

I don’t think Urdu is considered anti India in India ha some dumb people might think that but most of us Indians knowing or unknowing use Urdu words all the time and Bollywood which we all know how big is influence on India is like they can’t exist without Urdu

[@Rj_Thackeray]

INDIAN BHAI LOG BOYCOTT KARO PAKISTANI CHANNEL. BHAI USKI PROBLEM HAI. HUM MEIN KYA. YEH ADMI HYPOCRITE HAI.

[@RajeevKumar-mf3lc]

Many 90% read Arabic (ratta/memorize/by-heart) but do not understand (week to translate/understand in their own language).

[@shivamvishnu5539]

Persian has a greater claim as Islamic language of the subcontinent since Persian culture, poetry, religion defined Islam for Muslim elites for centuries before the British intervention. Jinnah declaring Urdu to be the national language in English to a Bengali audience has got to be a case study as one of the worst mistakes of political history. Goes to show how out-of-touch, aristocratic and undemocratic the muslim elite truly was.

[@bandoiler]

Ultimately the brits won, cause now english is supreme.

[@tay974]

Muslim Girl interviewed in India, what is difference between Hindus and Muslims: وہ بھگوان کی پوجا کرتے ہیں اور ہم اللہ کی عبادت کرتے ہیں Translating in English: they pray to God, we pray to God...it means actually there is no difference except difference of words, local words vs foreign words.

[@MazamalEhsan]

Hum punjabio ke ooper shuru se riasti jabar kiya ja rha hai. Hamari aproximately 5000 years old language/culture ko dafan ker diya gya hai hum punjabi dunia ki mazloom tareen qom hein.

[@ThePakistanExperience]

Riasat thee kinki bhai? Punjabi dominated establishment rahi hay for 70 years

[@sarvathavicharsheel7487]

Punjabi 5000saal puraani hai?

[@MazamalEhsan]

@@sarvathavicharsheel7487 Approximately

[@MazamalEhsan]

@@ThePakistanExperience Establishment is Pro Pakistani, not pro Punjabi I believe. I am a pro Punjabi who's mother tongue is Punjabi. I can assure that state has stolen our identity from us. As you have mentioned, if establishment is pro Punjabi then why is Punjabi not the official language of Punjab. When people from other provinces see us they consider Urdu speaking Pakistani establishment (only having born in Punjab) as "Punjabi" but I only consider a person "Punjabi" if he speaks my language. I am a person with no face, call me a ghost because I have no existence. Mai kandiali thor ve sajna, uggi vich jo bele Na koi meri chavein baithay, na patt khavan lele (Shiv Kumar Batalvi)

[@StayFocused-m4w]

ThePakistanExperience so why civil burucaracy was muhajar dominated almost 70percent in early days of Pakistan 🇵🇰

[@AbdullahKhan-in4tf]

I think that one major thing missing in this video is that the british came from a different civilisation altogether with no commonality for the land. From the colonial perspective for such a large land mass held between variable muslim and hindu kingdoms it is highly possible that they substituted it for european racial/ethnic nations, proof of this we see even after the establishment of british india consolidating whole of south asia, that they enforced the caste system as a parallel to their hierarchical classes. So if hierarchy became caste, races became religious distinctions, The only missing clue from a European perspective would be linguistic markers for community. So two big ruling groups based on religious instead of racial lines hindus and muslims, social classes and hierarchy is caste system, muslim lingua franca is urdu, hindu lingua franca is hindi. We have to remember that the colonial masters were very bureaucratic in nature often making decisions in closed dark rooms out of touch with reality. Every single thing is carefully labelled, shelved, group, titled and boxed regardless of diverse syncretic nature of society so the administrators find it easier to substitute. The british indian penal law is an excellent example of that, in its extensive and exhaustive nature, detailed. Whether for british bureaucratic norms or for finding some semblance or parallel to european norms, or just via cultural imperialism, the steps indeed did create two different nations in a religious sense. Intellectuals may argue but the mass populism of our times on either side prove it was for the best. Pakistanis will claim urdu is the language of nobility, indians will abhor it as tongue of the whores. Your video though does miss one very key detail, Urdu may not be an islamic language but it is indeed the language of south asian muslims. The ethnic languages of every single community would have existed regardless of muslim settling or coming to this region but not urdu. In its vocabulary, in its promixity and abundance of persian turkish arabic words and its very dialect and script it has become distinct and a community marker long before Pakistan came into being. Whether deliberately or unintentionally it is now interwoven with Pakistani and south asian muslim identity, which is why even the muslim minority in india educates itself in urdu, and kashmir is one of the largest urdu speaking regions in india if not the largest. It is now an intrinsic community marker in south asia and has become a muslim community marker. How it got here one can explain theorise or argue about, but one cannot refute or move past the present reality.

[@noorulbasar37]

Urdu… Islamic language….. This is a breaking News for me

[@abdullahyasser7402]

Jo ho gya woh ho gya , why can't we celebrate Urdu along with our regional languages

[@AZ-je9hg]

Urdu could never gain a national language status in indian subcontinent, because it did not get patronage from any significant and pan indian dynasty like Persian, that was officially adopted by Mughal ruling elites, Urdu was actually promoted, unintentionally by Britishers who happened to be in touch and were somewhat familiar with Indian people and markets for over two centuries, whereas Persian, although a rich language was not of much benifit for them because they were not interested in Persian lands, another reason for promoting urdu aka hindustani tongue, scripted in Persian script was that most of the educated class, if not all, was of muslims.

[@ahmedmuhammad9877]

Not sure why you even feel the need to write a book about it. We in Kpk know very well that it was not the language of Pashtuns, Balochs, Punjabis, Sindhis specifically. We wholeheartedly accept Urdu as our national language because we needed a common court language, it was the court language of India from centuries and it was persian before that I believe. Not sure at what direction likes of you are heading with Urdu language and Perisan anthem, neither of these are the problem, and knowing our people probably it would have been a problem if it was in Sindhi/Punjabi/Pashto/Balochi. Chosing any language would have its consequences and people of other languages would have preferred their own as an official langauge. It was all political and power game if Urdu was used as an excuse to demean any community and in no way this has anything to do with chosing some specific language as an official langauge. Despite urdu being our national language it has not hurt us one bit our culture is not dependent upon the language we speak. Most of us of central asian and Persian descent used to speak Farsi but now most of us don't similarly decision to use urdu has not suppressed any of us in any way, of course every community would have preferred to use their language but thats not practical.

[@ThePakistanExperience]

Read the rest of the comments, people don’t understand these basic things

[@VictimHood-qv1hx]

Urdu was born because Muslim clerics were upset that converted Hindus continue to speak Hindi language and Sufi clergy specifically asked that Persian words be compulsory forced into vocabulary to practice Islam converted by this Sufi’s using jaziya and threats of violence to convert. The so called peaceful Sufi saints are an invention of fertile minds . Unless the truth is discussed meaningfully their is no point

[@waheedkhan4315]

Bhai I am in the same dilemma which language I speak I am pashton and I want to preserve my language my culture lakin yaha school me har jaga bataya gaya ke speak Urdu agar Urdu nahi ati tu ab Pakistani he nahi ho Urdu jab ache se sekh le tu ab bataya ja Raha ha ke Urdu tu paindo ha thori speak English ,English nahi ati tu ap Kitne bhe zahen ho Kisi Kam ke nahi ho( ap ko Britishers colonise kar ke gaye ha pata tu chalna chahe ) phir ate ha hamare mulla ju kahte ha Arabic sekho hum tu Arab khon ha or koi yaha Turkish se obsessed ho raha ha koi persian language se we all are in severe identity crisis What the fuck is going on Thank you for raising your voice this is the most important issue Pakistani youth facing and what you suggest us

[@ThePakistanExperience]

Yehi baatain hay jo mainstream Pakistan ko nazar nahee atee toh Unko lagta hay Shehzad kin non issues par baat kar raha hay kyon Kay ye issues unkay issues nahee hay aur woh Baqi sab ko relevant samajhtay hee nahee hay

[@illuminati5070]

He declared urdu as national language in english language to bengali speaking people.. 🤣🤣🤣ye sab kya ho raha he

[@NEO-v7r]

What is Hindustani A Hindustani is someone who speaks 1689 languages 🤓

[@nikhilkansra9841]

Who told urdu is anti establishment in India? Bhai hum dekhnge was a war cry against hindus in caa protest

[@Qamisl2]

I remember growing up in karachi there used to be government boys bengali school in Nazimabad it shows the intent of elite to assimilate bengali culture in west pakistan but slowly it fade away in late 1960 Allah Knows what was the reason..

[@ansh_u_r]

Actually name of Pakistan should be Al-Hind as the name was given by Prophet Mohammad..

[@rootjay]

Jinko tha jubaan pe naaz chup hai vo jubaan daraz

[@hassanabdullah6742]

Yes but urdu has produced many islamic texts in it and many great scholars have scribed their researchs in it therefore it also has its importance and releveance with islam.

[@jaisalsanghvi]

3:55 Sindhi and Punjabi were written in Indic scripts originally and later changed to Arabic script in some regions based on the religious character of the demographic. Pakistan's education minister Fazlur Rahman was simply trying to do with Bengali what was already done with Sindhi and Punjabi, if languages create nations then perhaps the scripts used to write those languages play a part as well.

[@Rj_Thackeray]

INDIAN BHAI LOG BOYCOTT KARO PAKISTANI CHANNEL. BHAI USKI PROBLEM HAI. HUM MEIN KYA. YEH ADMI HYPOCRITE HAI.

[@MegaKoolboys]

This isn't true for Punjabi. The first script used for Punjabi was Shahmukhi

[@jaisalsanghvi]

@@MegaKoolboys Respectfully, that's not true. Punjabi is a language that's thousands of years old and it's speakers have used various writing systems for it over the centuries. Shahmukhi was primarily adopted around the 17th century while the earliest writings in Punjabi date back to 9th or 10th century.

[@MegaKoolboys]

@@jaisalsanghvi baba farid wrote poetry in the 13th century...

[@jaisalsanghvi]

@@MegaKoolboys It wouldn't be surprising if Baba Farid used a Persian or Arabic script. If you're claiming he used Shahmukhi then you'll have to provide a source cause I couldn't find any.

[@saleemnaqvi2200]

You are right, the East India Company made Urdu the medium of instruction in schools in the Punjab and the then NWFP. Not many of us know that initially there were three separate EIC's colonial territories in India, each with its separate army and civil service. They were the Bengal Presidency, which covered all of northern India from Bengal upto the Khyber Pass; Madras Presidency, which covered the southern part of India and its Eastern coast; and Bombay Presidency, which covered Maharashtra, Gujarat, the Western coast, some areas in the Gulf, and Aden in Yemen. In addition to having separate armies and civil services, each Presidency had chosen one language from its territory to use for official dealings with the inhabitants of the Presidency. They called it the official vernacular. White EIC officials had to learn that language to perform their official duties and deal with locals. The inhabitants of the Presidency also had to learn that language to be able to deal with their rulers. The official language of Bengal Presidency was Urdu (Urdu, not Hindi is still the second official language of the Indian state of West Bengal), Tamil was the official vernacular of the Madras Presidency, and that was the language people living in that Presidency had to use when performing official duties and dealing with EIC officials whether their own language was Tamil or Telgu or Malyalam. The Bombay Presidency was different in this regard. It initially had two official vernaculars: Marathi and Gujarati, and after 1843 Sindhi was added to these It is for the reason of using the same language throughout the Bengal Presidency that Urdu was chosen as the medium of Instruction in schools when Punjab (which included Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa and Kashmir) was officially annexed in 1849. The medium of instruction in schools in Sindh was Sindhi because it was a part of the Bombay Presidency, not the Bengal Presidency.

[@ThePakistanExperience]

Interesting

[@245manakis]

If urdu is islamic oanguage then why indian govt pays for minority fund in urdu teaching fron south to north

[@mt6611]

Religion has no language that's why holy prophet Mohammad PBUH said in the last khutba that there is no preference of people who speaks Arabic on people who has other language.

[@NoumanArif007]

Both Urdu and Hindi are kind of made-up languages from Hindustani, religion did played a role here for the separation of the mother language. Interesting fact is that majority of Indians and Pakistanis cannot speak either of these languages with grammatically correct phrases, and I'm not talking about accent here.

[@areicgnon]

Hindi and Urdu and different vernaculars of the same language. They practically identical, you can't even call them different dialects. The pronouns, verbs, grammar is identical. Each and every Urdu sentence is grammatically correct in Hindi. The only difference is choice of words. If more Persian words are used, it will be Urdu, if more Sanskrit words are used it will be Hindi. Funnily enough Hindi contains Persian words as well and inversely Urdu contains Sanskrit words which makes a sentence in the language be classified as a percentage Hindi or percentage Urdu. I think it's time to remove these unnecessary labels, it will only enrich our language. The day to day language should be made the written and formal language as well.

[@nikhildeshmukh6221]

Same brahmanvadi hindutva guys who are condemning urdu imposition wanted Hindi imposed on India

[@ruchinkumar8358]

Urdu is native language of western UP from areas around Delhi. It’s grammar which is called language, you can put Sanskrit, Farsi, Arabic or English words in it, like Rekhta or Hindi was its name prior to becoming Urdu which itself is taken from Turkish vocabulary which means Military camp

[@Rj_Thackeray]

INDIAN BHAI LOG BOYCOTT KARO PAKISTANI CHANNEL. BHAI USKI PROBLEM HAI. HUM MEIN KYA. YEH ADMI HYPOCRITE HAI.

[@farrukh4385]

It's best language

[@ProbeDeeper]

@10:08 What exactly did he say? What were the exact words?

[@SajjadAhmad-cz2uj]

Kaha kis ne Urdu islamic language hai? Non issue k champion 🏆🏆

[@ThePakistanExperience]

Youthiya bhai aap nay maafi nahee maangi? 4 din say har jaga chila rahay thay mai constitutional amendment par video nahee banao ga? Ab bana di toh naya Rona shoro kardia 🤣

[@junaid_2107]

SajjadAhmad-cz2uj Lol, tell mee you are clueless on the ideology of Pakistan

[@SajjadAhmad-cz2uj]

@@ThePakistanExperience bata dete bana rahay ho. Lekin me ne pti kiun chori was more important tou laga nahi banao gey

[@saifsamo9750]

@@SajjadAhmad-cz2uj Jinnah ne !

[@leo11i34]

Don’t take seriously his podcasts. He already mentioned at Channel description HOSTED BY COMEDIAN…

[@JehanzebAfridi-d6g]

Every language is an Islamic language. Or Christian language or Jewish language etc. But phonetically it is Hindi but we transcribed it in Arabic/Persian and created a hybrid (this is why we are able to watch bollywood movies but not read the subtitles). Pakistan is a very new country we have no culture of our own, we are a melting pot of many different cultures Indian, Arab, Persian, Afghan and British. Sort of like America.

[@muneerkaleri9518]

100%rational bateen ...

[@ThePakistanExperience]

🙌

[@mohsinafzaal7159]

Agreed, languages does not have religions State does NOT have religions people have religions!

[@indianperspective5053]

There is no language called Urdu. It is a dialect of Hindi, such as Khadi Boli, Braj, Awadhi, Hadoti, Mewati, Marwadi, Bangdu, Magahi, Maithili, Santhali. To give it a language status is a supremacist myth.

[@nawoxare5194]

Maithili is a language on it's own which has a longer history than any other modern indo-aryan language. Hindi is the one which was developed in and around Delhi area specially in the court of Muslim rulers. Telling Maithili a dialect of hindi is the biggest supermacist myth

[@jojo_ranjan]

Santhali isn’t a dialect of Hindi. It’s a separate language and doesn’t even come from same family of language as Hindi, i.e, Indo-European language family. It belongs to Austroasiatic family and related to languages like Ho, Mundari etc. Add to it Santhali predates Hindi by two to three thousand years.

[@indianperspective5053]

@@jojo_ranjan 6% of Santhali language is of Munda origin. 94% words are of Indo-European origin. I don't know what you mean by pre-dates, Proto-Indo-European is estimated to be at least 11 thousand years old.

[@indianperspective5053]

​@@nawoxare5194 :) I suggest, you pick up up any scholarly book about Hindi from 1940s or earlier - published by early adopting institutions like Nagari Pracharini Sabha, or BHU Hindi department, or even researchers of languages like Hemachandra Goswami, Vaman Apte, Gopal Chandra Paharaj. You will see that it was totally accepted that Hindi is deivided into five categories of dialects: Purvi Dialects having Bhojpuri, Maithili, and Magahi Madhyavarti having Braj and Avadhi, Pashcimi having Khadi Boli, Hindustani (which was later named Urdu) and Bangdu. Rajasthani having Hadoti, Mewati, and Marwadi. Munda-mishrit having Santhali and Gondi. It is the post-independent post-linguistic-state politically motivated non-scientific literature - that started giving language status to some of these dialects. Most khadi-boli speakers can understand Maithili. In fact, Magahi is possibly far more hard to understand for Delhi people. Besides I am Tamilian. I can't be a Hindi supremacist. :)

[@indianperspective5053]

@@nawoxare5194 ​ :) I suggest, you pick up up any scholarly book about Hindi from 1940s or earlier - published by early adopting institutions like Nagari Pracharini Sabha, or BHU Hindi department, or even researchers of languages like Hemachandra Goswami, Vaman Apte, Gopal Chandra Paharaj. You will see that it was totally accepted that Hindi is deivided into five categories of dialects: Purvi Dialects having Bhojpuri, Maithili, and Magahi Madhyavarti having Braj and Avadhi, Pashcimi having Khadi Boli, Hindustani (which was later named Urdu) and Bangdu. Rajasthani having Hadoti, Mewati, and Marwadi. Munda-mishrit having Santhali and Gondi. It is the post-independent post-linguistic-state politically motivated non-scientific literature - that started giving language status to some of these dialects. Most khadi-boli speakers can understand Maithili. In fact, Magahi is possibly far more hard to understand for Delhi people. Besides I am Tamilian. I can't be a Hindi supremacist. :)

[@Fawad-b2j]

Sir Agha Khan told to adopt Arabic, but this was ignored

[@khadija4801]

I was just thinking the same. If it was Arabic then we would not lose half Pakistan in 1971.

[@ksaeed1000]

I don’t think we need this discussion right now

[@MuhammadAliPB]

Punjabi meri qomi zuban ae.

[@StayFocused-m4w]

Nehi subae zuban Hai qomi zuban Urdu hai meh khud Punjabi hoon oor Urdu par fakhar hai Punjabi theek hai ghar par bolo aas pass bolo lekin Urdu oor English school par oor work places par bolo

[@MuhammadAliPB]

@@StayFocused-m4w tu c aes aehsaas e kamtari vicho kado nikalo gay ? urdu te english dono gair mulki zubana ne. dunya vich koi v aesi qoam nai hegi jeri apni zuban chadh k kisy hor di zuban apnaye. Urdu Punjab te angraiza ne nafaz kiti c, Quade azam ne nai. Punjab nu mazhab di bunyad te wakh kran lai ae chal chali gai ae. tuhadiya akha haly tak band ae. jag punjabi jag

[@iqra07ify]

fantastic job.. God bless you

[@ThePakistanExperience]

🙌

[@avinashmishra7735]

Although Jinnah was smarter than Nehru and Gandhi combined, but as a Brahmin who believe in 2 Nation Theory probably more than even Jinnah would have believed in; I would say even Jinnah was also stupid to a great extent. Even if it would have taken a great amount of difficuly for a generation or two, but why couldn't he dare to make Arabic the unifying national language of Pakistan? I know he couldn't survive longer but still he should have made it clear atleast on his death bed because it was that important to make Arabic the prime language. Urdu may be your 2nd language and regional languages may be your mother tongue, but Arabic should have been made the official language in Pakistan if he was really that serious to take this 2 Nation Theory to next level in the civilizational realm of a nation's journey. It had many strategic benefits - A) 2 Nation Theory would have been more stronger because Urdu is unfortunately weakening it. In fact it's bringing India and Pakistan closer to understanding each others. B) Arabic would have been easier to force upon Bangladeshis than Urdu. C) Lesser political conflict today in Pakistan in the name of languages. D) Better foreign relations with Muslim countries. I mean more easy money. Just joking 🤣 E) Pakistanis would have got more acceptability in the markets of Arab today, which means more employement and more remittances. Paisa hi Paisa hota. 🤣 F) Indian Muslims who try to hide their inferior complexity today, would have openly started looking towards Pakistanis for thier command in Arabic language. G) It would have injected organic superior psychology and closer relationship with Arabs in the minds of Pakistanis and your Ummah would have been stronger than what it is today. I know Imran Khan tried to make Arabic mandatory for every school in Pakistan, but this should have been done on the very first day itself. You may be thinking why I as a proud Hindutva boy saying this. But that's for another day to explain. Bas itna samajh lo - Arabic in Pakistan would have been WIN-WIN for both Hindus in India and Muslims in Pakistan. Baki Chanakya philosophy k hisab se Jinnah Nehru Gandhi can be ranked 1 , 2, 3 in strategy making.