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K. Sajun Lal' s plea for the study of the mid-nineteenth century Urdu Newspapers as the source of Indian History: ·· Sir Charles Metcalfe, who, during the tenure of office asthe Govemor• General of India, passed the Act XI of 1835, giving full' freedom of public opinion .
K. Gandhi realised that such pronouncements are· likely to generate ill• feelings in the country, so in his post-prayer speech in New Delhi on the r Sth December, I94i, he said that "he was proud of the fact that Urdu was a language which had been evolved -in India and was the Indian language.
In the midst of these acute controversies the Hon'ble Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the Education Minister of the lndian Union, tapped a note of tangible reality during the course of his convocation address of the Patna University on the zrst December, 1947, in which he urged the-gradual replacement of English by a: common Indian language in all spheres of life.
As regards the state language of the whole of Pakistan, Mr. Bahar suggested that both Bengali and Urdu must be the lingua franca.
The students of the Dacca universities organised meetings, passed resolutionsin favour of Bengali, and held demonstrations in front of the houses of the Premier of East Pakistan and his colleagues, who assured,them to decide the question of the language in accordance with the wishes of the people of the province.