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for research work in these libraries. Similarly, there was need of procuring microfilms and photostat copies of valuable material scattered all over the country and in several foreign countries. The -proposed research centres would serve as focal facility
for research scholars, whose number had increased considerably in the post- Independence period and was likely to grow still larger. points
Nine witnesses expressed. their views on the establishment of an Urdu university. Three of them wanted one, such university to be set up at a suitable place in the Country, while two of them specifically recommended Hyderabad as its locations Some 4.362
supporters of the idea wanted two Urdu universities to be set up, one in the north and the other in the south. A variant of the idea suggested by some, witnesses was the setting, up of a university with Urdu as the teaching medium, with powers to enthusiastic
colleges on an inter-State basis on the model suggested by the Kothari affiliate
The idea of an affiliating type of University appealed to several witnesses.One of the witness suggested that the proposed Urdu University should be located at a place where Urdu speakers constituted over 50 per cent of the population. Commission.
had Rampur in mind though there were others who thought Kanpur and Lucknow more appropriate. 4.363 A majority of the witnesses were, however, opposed to the idea of establishing an He
University. Unless Urdu colleges were opened throughout the country to feed the Urdu
they feared that a sufficient number of students would not be forthcoming to joint it. The establishment of a university should, therefore, wait till the availability of a university,
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sufficient number of students was assured. 4.364 Those opposed to the basic idea of a separate university for Urdu felt that there would not be enough demand for the graduates turned out by the university. The experiment of running a language university, they contended, had not proved successful and It was extremely doubtful if it would succeed in the case of Urdu. Some witnesses
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