Pakistan News And Discussion-14

[Guest]

Naresh Ji,

You must also add one more curious fact about Urdu in the long and very interesting list you have provided.

Of all the scheduled languages that are printed on the Indian currency, only two languages are not state languages of any state - Sanskrit and Kashmiri. Urdu is the official state language of only one state in India. That is Jammu and Kashmir. Why is Urdu the state language of Jammu & Kashmir and not Kashmiri?

Please ask Hoori-at conference whose love for Kashmiriyat is well known, or to National conference and ruling Congress party and PDP.

Also those who have mentioned Bhojpuri and Awadhi (vs Hindi) would do well to ask Mulayam Singh why Urdu is declared as the second language of Uttar Pradesh and not either Bhojpuri, Awadhi, Bundelkhandi or Braj - each of which has a larger following than Urdu in the state? Same question should be posed to the congress party in Karnataka - why Urdu is the second state language and not Telugu or other languages which are spoken more in the state and have a much larger affinity with Kannada?

By the way "Urdu" derives from the same root word from which “Hoard” is derived.