HINDI-HINDUSTANI CONTROVERSY IN LITERARY AND POLITICAL SPHERES IN THE 1930s

“IN THE 19TH CENTURY, AS MOVEMENT, HINDI-URDU CONTROVERSY WAS ON ITS PEAK. ONE GROUP WAS SUPPORTING THE HINDI AND OTHER GROUP (MAINLY HINDU KAYASTHAS AND MUSLIMS) WERE SUPPORTING URDU. THE FIGHT FOR LANGUAGE WAS NOT ONLY POLITICAL BUT ALSO ADMINISTRATIVE POSTS. WHEN COLONIAL GOVERNMENT BEGAN TO SUPORT HINDI, THEN KAYASTHAS AND MUSLIMS WERE HARASSED MORE. AFTER THE ENTRY OF GANDHI IN INDIAN POLITICS/FREEDOM STRUGGLE, THEN THE ISSUE OF LANGUAGE BECAME MORE POLITICAL. GANDHI WAS MOR INCLINED TOWARDS HINDUSTANI. HE FORMED THE HINDUSTANI PRACHAR SAMITI FOR THE PROMOTION OF HISDUSTANI. MANY LEADERS OF CONGRESS WERE ALSO INVOLVED IN LANGUAGE POLITICS. MANY LEADERS, WHO HAD VERY GOOD KNOWLEDEGE OF PERSIANISED URDU, BUT THEY WERE IN SUPPORT OF HINDI. EVEN MADAN MOHAN MALVIYA HAD GOOD KNOWLEDGE OF PERSIANISED URDU, BUT IN THE HINDI-URDU CONTROVERSY, MALVIYA WAS IN SUPPORT OF URDU.”