Urdu-Hindi controversy 1867 unfolded many unsaid stories for the Muslims of India who were expecting to live in amity with the Hindus and other communities in the long run. Even the Muslims with the moderate views were convinced at last that that Hindus and Muslims could not be friends with each other as they have different religions, rituals, culture and even languages.
The Hindus started a movement against Urdu in Banaras and demanded to replace it with Hindi in Devnagiri Script while the official language prior to this was Urdu with Persian Script and it was in practice even in the High Court. The headquarters of the movement was Allahabad. Madan Mohan Malavia and Babu Shiva Prasad were at the forefront to oppose the Urdu language while Sir Syed Ahmad advocated the Muslims and in favor of Urdu. The only reason of this staunch Hindu antagonism against Urdu was that it was in Persian script which was near to the Arabic, the language of the religion.
The direct conclusion of the controversy was that the Muslims like Sir Syed Ahmad Khan who had been strong believers in the Hindu-Muslim unity and had very modest views about other communities, were ultimately induced that the Muslims were a separate nation. They have a separate and distinct identity based on their religion, rites, diets, dresses, and languages. These differences, in the long run paved the way to the Two Nation Theory which became the very foundation of Pakistan in 1947.
it was the real face of hindus when they tried to replace the urdu…