Question

What percent of population constituted Urdu speaking people in Hyderabad state?
A. 12%
B. 25%
C. 35%
D. 50%

Answer 1

Hint: Hyderabadi is a vernacular of Urdu and one of the Dakhini tongues spoken in territories of the previous Hyderabad State, similar to the Indian territory of Telangana, and the Marathwada area of Maharashtra and Hyderabad-Karnataka district of Karnataka.

Complete answer:
The type of Urdu spoken in Hyderabad gets its dialect from Dakhini, which further has its roots in Deccan area when Aurangzeb invaded. He introduced the “Camp”or “Lashkari” after the invasion of the territory. Lashkari was the most widely used language conceived in Delhi and northern India as a need for the militaries of a progression of Muslim intruders from Muslim terrains in Central Asia to speak with the local populace. The language obtained increasingly Persian and Arabic words in the Mughal court of Bahadur Shah Zafar, and was utilized by the intellectuals of Delhi and Lucknow. In the Deccan, it held its unique structure, alluded to now as Dakhani (of, or relating to, Dakhan (South), Anglicized as Deccan). Hyderabadi is commonly understandable with generally Hindi/Urdu speakers however has unmistakable features from association with local Indian Languages, for example, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada. The reason why Hyderabad has so many Urdu speaking people is that, this city most of the time has been ruled by a muslim ruler in the past. And these rulers brought the influence of islamic language and culture along with them.

The Nizam was the Muslim leader of the tremendous Hyderabad State before and after independence and until its accession into India. The capital city of Hyderabad was basically Urdu-speaking Muslim until the Incorporation of Hyderabad into India and which ensured the majority of the local Telugu-speaking Hindu individuals of Telangana. South India has always been sheltered from all the political strife and massacre going on in North India because of the deccan plateau which acted like a rampart. This is the reason why the Muslim territory of Hyderabad established a particular culture during the Qutb Shahi rule, brief Mughal rule and later the Asaf Jahi dynasty of the Nizams.

Hence, the correct answer is option (A).

Note: In the year of 2017, the state government of Telangana has announced Urdu as the second official language in all the 31 districts of the State. It was praised by many, even by the head of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, Akbaruddin Owaisi as he defined this declaration as historic and joyful to the Urdu lovers.