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therefore, Urdu has to depend heavily on the constitutional and administrative safeguards provided for this purpose from time to time. 14. With its hoary tradition of secularism and of devotion to national ideals and development,
and with its roots stretching down deep into our national culture, Urdu has acquired great vitality, and enjoys wide popularity throughout the country. Urdu mushairas continue to draw huge crowds, Urdu films and Qawwalis are appreciated aspirations,
in the North as well as in the South. Urdu Ghazals sung to the accompaniment of widely
are equally popular. The number of speakers of Urdu as also of the pupils studying Urdu is on the increase. So is the number of newspapers and periodicals. Many more schools at the primary and secondary levels are now teaching Urdu, while music
number of students at the graduate and post-graduate stages is showing a definite upward trend. 15. After Independence, our languages were released from the crippling influence of the
domination. Apart from the official patronage that became available to them, the foreign
of education and the growth of genuinely free press provided new impetus to writers. A new generation of young men, well versed in their mother tongue, engaged themselves in creative activity of a high order. Another important factor which expansion
the development of languages was the reorganisation of States on a linguistic basis in accelerated
1971 census us figures have not yet been published, the number of those *The
Urdu as their subsidiary language stood in the neighbourhood of 21 lakh in the precedig census. 140 returning
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1956. As a consequence, the regional languages concerned were declared the official languages in the States. 16. Outside the areas where these regional languages acquired an official status, they became minority languages and their preservation and development gave rise to new problems. Some of these difficulties had been foreseen and in order to remove them, a
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