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that Asian audiences in Britain acquired much easier access to BBC service for Asia and to Indian and Pakistani TV channels. From the late 1970s, the Urdu service broadcast a number of ambitious feature programmes which reflected the increasingly global character of the Urdu speaking community. For example, after the oil price hike of 1973, the Gulf exploded as a destination for Pakistanis and Indians, many of them in professional jobs but hundreds of thousands employed as laborers with minimal rights.
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The Urdu Service reflected the life of the Asian community in Britain for the benefit of target audiences in India and Pakistan. In that sense the service acted as a bridge between the diaspora and their home communities. But it was only in the 1990s, with the emergence of satellite communication,
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In Britain, Urdu has been standardised for education, and opportunities to incorporate Urdu as part of teaching exist all the way from primary education to a PhD in Urdu. Urdu books are also widely found in British libraries, where in 1967, Britain's first Urdu library was opened in Nottingham.
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As a modern paper, it introduced advertisements for various industries, such as the Urdu magazines and Urdu cinemas. The paper would print rights on the columns to raise awareness. It continued on until the 1970s, when its decline came about due to the rise of the daily Urdu press. The
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It is aimed at an international Urdu-knowing middle-class rather than a mass audience in one country and to that extent serves a different purpose. But it has given the service a new global profile in an increasing competitive multimedia
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in 1971. The latter is one of the few papers that has published regularly since its inception. Since then, many weekly, fortnightly, and monthly Urdu language periodicals were once published in the UK.
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has issued patient information (pamphlets etc.) in Urdu in conjunction with local authorities, which has also led other organisations, institutions and councils to publish public information in Urdu.
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published 'overseas editions' that were sent over to Britain, however, due to issues in logistics, it was unable to satisfy demand and eventually collapsed. In 1961, a weekly by the name of
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to deliver a seal mark celebrating the Queen's Golden Jubilee. She began learning in 1887, and also began keeping a diary written in Urdu, which she called her '
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tradition and inheritance centralises English as the national lingua and vernacular. Radical opportunities exist, however, for the productive growth of minority
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The work of the BBC World Service 2008-09 : third report of session 2009-10 : report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence
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in 1969 to be turned into a daily in '71, however this again did not last as the paper turned into a weekly a year later, before finally disappearing.
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became the first university in the UK to offer an Urdu degree. Around 5,000 students in England take Urdu as a GCSE subject every year, and as per
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began its radio service back in 1940, when it was known as 'BBC Hindustani', launched to mitigate wartime misinformation. Following the
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Urdu society. The history of Urdu in British Education can be traced to as early as the 1800s when, under one of its old names,
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Urdu/Hindi : an artificial divide ; African heritage, Mesopotamian roots, Indian culture & British colonialism
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Urdu became the first non-European language which was recognised at a Higher level, back in 2006, when the
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Marsh, David (2012). "Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). A Development Trajectory".
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began teaching Urdu to British children, which entailed other institutions to follow, such as the
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remained as the sole Urdu newspaper in Britain during this period until the launch of the weekly
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Diasporas and diplomacy : cosmopolitan contact zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012)
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reports the total number of Urdu speakers in the UK at over 400,000. Since the 1990s, the
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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Foreign Affairs Committee (2010).
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recruits and civil servants, which was mandatory for those wishing to join the
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The largest Urdu-speaking communities in the UK are predominantly found in
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was launched by a student, along with an editor of a Pakistani daily. The
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in 2007, he took his oath in both English and Urdu. Similarly, the ex-
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during the 1880-90s, and was known as the Ainah-e-Angrezi Saudagri (
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and quickly became the source of communication for immigrants from
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One of the earliest Urdu periodicals in the UK was established in
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and, undoubtedly, it revolved mainly around trade relations with
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Curriculum-wise, students in the UK are able to take Urdu as a
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Other renowned Urdu television stations, usually based in
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are considered two major Urdu centres, among cities like
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was broadcast on a local station with Urdu commentary.
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The first non-Pakistani Urdu paper was published by an
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was taught to write Urdu after requesting her servant
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where it is published from. Other newspapers like the
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in the UK. In 2024, the Easter Sunday service at the
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