Injustice to Urdu in India: It is not a language of Muslims alone

Injustice to Urdu in India: It is not a language of Muslims alone

By Justice Markandey Katju, Judge, Supreme Court of India

These later Mughals were Emperors only in name, they were in fact pauperised, they had lost their empire to the Britishers, the Marathas, and their Governors, who had really became independent rulers (like the Nawabs of Awadh or Nizam of Hyderabad). In their reign the court language gradually ceased to be Persian and instead became Urdu.

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