 After Persian language, it was most widely used in the Mughal Royal Court.It was declared the official language, and all official records were written in this language.In 1876, some Hindus began to demand that Hindi should be made an official language in place of Urdu, and they started a movement in Banaras in which they demanded the replacement of Urdu with Hindi, and the Perso-Arabic script with the Devanagari, script as the court language in the northwestern provinces.