Myths of Urdu Speaking Community.

Myths of Urdu Speaking Community.

In many of your mails you were read as Sufi and follower of Tareeqa [sufism]. Lying is the second nature of Sufis. You say Punjabis exploited all and sundry since the last 60 years. They were not alone please don’t exclude those members of the Urdu Speaking community who were ICS and later CSP officers and served at least 2 Illegal quasi Martial Law governments of Ghulam Mohammad, and Iskander Mirza and 2 Pure Martial Law Regimes of General Ayub and Yahya. To quote the so-called Reformist Sir Syed Ahmed Khan [extremely prejudiced Dehli Wala toward fellow Bengalis]. Still the so-called representative of Urdu speaking community i.e. the Altaf Hussain and MQM were the strong supporter of Military Regime since 1999 directly and indirectly supporting the Military Establishment since 1988 by sabotaging every Civilian government. Do you think all those who are in Military regime are from UP, Dehli and Central Provinces.




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But a great source of Pakistani dislike of Bengalis can be traced to the Aligarh leader Sir Syed Ahmed Khan whose furious anti-Bengali speeches are some of the most racist utterances made by anyone. In fact, the Upper India Landowners Association which he founded with the Hindu Raja of Rampur shows how religion was weak compared to linguistic ethnic rivalry. ["Emergence of Indian nationalism" by Anil Seal] For Further Reading : Alamiya-e-Tareekh by Dr Mubarak Ali.




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A glimpse from the past:




Urdu speaking immigrants moved to East Pakistan too, but though vastly outnumbered by Bengalis, still managed to capture most of the plum jobs and businesses. Now, I would dare to go out on a limb. Urdu speaking people of Delhi, UP, and Bihar have an inborn sense of superiority to others. They lived in the cradle of so-called civilization inheritors of Mughal splendor in culture and looked down upon all comers as inferiors in all respects. They treated Bengalis, Punjabis, Pathans, Sindhis, and Baluchi nationalities native to Pakistan as a sophisticate would a “hilly billy”.




This superiority complex ran across religious lines- Hindus of North India harbor the same illusions as Muslims do. (I was born in a Muslim Family of UP so I have a license to speak frankly). Curiously enough, for many years, all Non-Urdu speaking people meekly accepted the claim to superiority.




If you have any doubt over my above mentioned claim read Murder of History by Prof K K Aziz published by Vanguard Press Lahore.




More eye openers!




IMPOSING A NEW CULTURE ON PAKISTAN




"Most of the textbooks, on both school and college levels, persist in preaching that the United Provinces was the home of Pakistani culture. The clear message is that Pakistanis should accept this culture; but nobody explains what it is, beyond the Urdu language. In practice this culture is being imposed upon us through the very effective means of the textbook. This raises many problems and some issues of substantial importance:



* The fact is that the United Provinces was the home of a decadent, brittle, pale, nostalgic reflection of the Moghul culture that had passed away, not a developing, strong, healthy, indigenous culture. It was owned only by the upper crust of the society; the home-grown, common-man, _bhayya_, way of life was looked at contemptuously by the 'cultured' classes. The crust was hard, and did not contain much within it. This superficially aristocratic culture was not shared by any class in the rest of Muslim India, nor would it have been acceptable to Pakistanis unless it were imposed upon them through state machinery.





* The influence of the MAO College and the Aligarh University has been grossly exaggerated. Only a handful of students from other provinces attended them. There were several other educational institutions situated nearer home and producing more graduates...




* This culture had a very strong element of loyalty to the British and, by extension, to any master or liege lord. In this respect, and in no other, it shared the value system of the Punjabi culture. But other cultures of India and later in Pakistan were less inclined to call their political masters their _mai bap_ (mother and father).




* The political culture of the United Provinces was littered with anti-Muslim League and anti-Pakistan movement spokesmen and organisations, and this did not endear it to Pakistanis...




* The principal, central and vitalizing force in the U.P. culture was its language, Urdu. The unifying advantage of Urdu in Pakistan has been offset by four serious developments:



- strangling of the Punjabi language, and aaccelerating its disappearance;




- obstructing the development of Baluchi ass a written language;



- creating great resentment in Sind; and – driving east Pakistanis out of Pakistan.




Has the price paid been commensurate with the convenience of having a so-called 'national' language?"