Open AccessChallenges to Urdu in the post 1857 period and the Role of Ulema in the promotion of Urdu
Author(s) -
Shahnaz Shah,
Kaleemullah Barech
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
rāḥat al-qulūb
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2521-2869
pISSN - 2520-5021
DOI - 10.51411/rahat.4.1.2020.127
Subject(s) - urdu , promotion (chess) , politics , period (music) , pace , mutiny , political science , partition (number theory) , history , political economy , sociology , law , geography , literature , aesthetics , art , mathematics , geodesy , combinatorics
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.