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Muslims should rise to the occasion according to the injunctions · of their religion, Many useful resolutions were passed; such as: Urdu should be the com• mon language of India, since it was spoken in every part of the country and understandable by the majority of the inhabitants without the dist• inction of caste and creed.
In the course of his presidential address he said: '' History of India is being taught by our own compatriots, who also compile various text-books, and conduct researches on the deeds and achievements of the kings of different periods.
Its chief objects will be (1) to organise advance studies and higher research works on Islamics and Islamology; (2) to survey the existing published and unpublished literature in European and Eastern languages; (3) to analyse the tendencies of traditional and modern scholarship on problems connected with History, Religion, Philosophy, Science, Literature, Arts and Architecture; (4) to prepare and publish standard books of Muslim History based on advanced studies and researches with a view to expound the principles of Islam and its cultural heritage; (5) to encourage advanced studies in Islamic classical languages; (6) to establish a Museum and research library of Islamic studies in order to preserve and collect manuscripts, records, documents, paintings and pictures and other materials of values in studies of Islamic history and culture and to prepare a catalogue of such manuscripts, etc.