The Urdu-Hindi Controversy, an important to forerunner to the partition of British-India started in:

The Urdu-Hindi Controversy, an important to forerunner to the partition of British-India started in:

  • (A) 1857
  • (B) 1867
  • (C) 1877
  • (D) 1885
The dispute over the use of Urdu and Hindi started in Banaras (Varanasi) when a group of influential Hindus initiated a move to replace the official use of Urdu, written in the Persian script, with Hindi written in the Devanagari script. Before 1867, Urdu was the lingua franca and the official court language in the North-Western Provinces and Bihar. The demand for Hindi was seen by many Muslim leaders as an attack on their cultural and political identity.
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