The Nehru Report and Muslim Rights — Page 182
l [ • 183 ] of all communities belong more to the agriculturist class, will suffer heavily. 3. Another modification or improvement, if it can be so called, to which I take objection is in regard to the future language of the country. Under the heading. • • Language '' in the Supplementary Report we read. •' The language of the Commonwealth shall be Hindu stani, which may be written either in Nagri or Urdu character. " (Ibid. , p. 33, Cl. 4, Sub-cl. I). The ambi guity of the sense conveyed by this expression is such that it gives rise to a legitimate apprehension in the minds of the Muslims, lest all Government Reports should be written in Nagri script and the progress of Urdu should, in this way, be made to suffer from sheer neglect and indifference. And it is quite natural that if the use of Nagri character were encouraged by the Government. Arabic and Persian words would of themselves gradu ally disappear from the language, and the present forn1 of Urdu will completely become changed into a langu age, Urdu only in name but Nagri in substance end reality, particularly because Urdu words cannot adequate ly be expressed in Nagri characters. This arrangement will inevitably lead to the gradual but sure dying out of Urdu words making room for Bhasha words and will there fore, evidently be very detrimental to the interests of the Muslim Community and on occasions may be used against them. 4. Under the caption, '' Parliament '' another Sub clause has been added to clause 13 A. which runs as follows:- ( a) '' In cases of great emergency and in matters of controversies between pr�vinces or a province and an Indian State, the Central Government and the Parliament