Watch the Discussion: Colonial Punjab, Twisted British Language Policy and bad Narrative
What was the language policy in British India? Why they played with languages, Dialects and Scripts? Why they imposed Devanagari script for Bengali and Arabic script for Sindhi? Why they had problems with Persian? Why they imposed Urdu and did not opted for the Punjabi, Pushtu, Balochi and Kashmiri? How they encourage Hindi-Urdu controversy? Why they had special love for Gurmukhi script of Punjabi? Why they played with Hindi & Punjabi? Urdu for Muslims, Hindi for Hindus & Punjabi in Gurmukhi script for the Punjabi; what was the mindset behind it? How anti-colonialists adopted bad language narratives spread by the colonial rulers? Colonial rulers in India linked languages with power & employment while anti-colonials used languages in power and politics. Watch and listen the debate
Dr Imdad Hussain has a PhD in education policy from Tokyo University and currently associated with School of Public Policy, FCC University, Lhore.
Mushtaq Soofi is a writer, poet and currently President Punjabi Adbi Board, Lhore
Aamir Riaz is researcher in education, radio anchor and writer and did research in education policies from colonial times till today and twice did content analysis regarding socio-political, religious & sectarian biases in textbooks.
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An in-depth article regarding twisted Language politics in British India & Pakistan
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