States of India by Urdu speakers

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As per Government of India census data of 2011, the total number of Urdu speakers in the Republic of India were 62,772,631. [1] [2] According to the census guidelines, "Urdu" does not broadly refer to the Hindostani language, but the literary-register of the macrolanguage, hence accounting Hindi as a separate language.

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Urdu is officially recognised in India and has official status in the National Capital Territory of Delhi to which the language has remained deeply attached through its medieval history of Muslim sultanates and empires and the Indian states and union territories of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, [3] Telangana and Jammu and Kashmir.

Regional distribution

Following is a list of States and Union Territories of India by speakers of Urdu census data with estimated 2001 speakers. [4]

Administrative divisionsUrdu speakers
TotalMaleFemale
States
Uttar Pradesh 38,272,08020,947,59619,324,484
Bihar 17,757,5488,891,0118,566,537
Maharashtra 6,895,5013,247,5473,247,954
Telangana & Andhra Pradesh [lower-roman 1] 5,539,9103,430,7192,109,191
Jharkhand 3,324,4112,206,4581,117,953
Madhya Pradesh 3,186,3642,180,0191,006,345
Karnataka 2,674,3331,373,1171,301,216
West Bengal 1,653,739914,087739,652
Rajasthan 1,462,983781,000681,002
Gujarat 1,350,630687,723663,907
Odisha 899,299411,692288,817
Tamil Nadu 511,299273,914232,385
Uttarakhand 497,081265,152231,929
Haryana 260,687140,038120,649
Chhattisgarh 88,00846,67041,338
Goa 54,16328,30625,857
Punjab 27,66016,97110,689
Kerala 51,49226,70325,789
Himachal Pradesh 4,7873,1461,641
Assam 4,7152,8211,894
Sikkim 2,9302,118812
Meghalaya 2,5311,5091,022
Arunachal Pradesh 1,258883375
Manipur 48347013
Tripura 31325360
Mizoram 988414
Nagaland 759562197
Union territories
Delhi 8,575,0334,351,5454,223,488
Jammu & Kashmir 13,2518,2934,958
Chandigarh 7,2544,4282,826
Puducherry 7,0923,4503,642
Andaman & Nicobar Islands 1,615885730
Dadra & Nagar Haveli 994590404
Daman & Diu 574388186
Lakshadweep 261412
India 85,061,07846,837,14345,698,968
  1. Telangana state was created after 2011 census, hence separate numbers are not available.

For census data of 1991:GOI census 1991: DISTRIBUTION OF 10,000 PERSONS BY LANGUAGE - INDIA, STATES AND UNION TERRITORIES - 1991

Speaker strength

Following is speaker's strength data of Urdu language for decades of 1971, 1981, 1991 & 2001: [5] [6]

LanguagePersons who returned the language as their mother tongue [7] Percentage to total population
1971198119912001201119711981199120012011
Urdu28,620,89534,941,43543,406,93251,536,11150,772,6315.225.255.185.014.19

Ranking

Following is ranking data of Urdu language for decades of 1971, 1981, 1991 & 2001: [8]

Urdu: its rank and percentage to total population
19711981199120012011
Rank%Rank%Rank%Rank%Rank%
65.2255.2565.18**65.0174.19

"**" Census was not conducted in the former state of Jammu and Kashmir

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References

  1. http://censusindia.gov.in/ [ dead link ]
  2. SCHEDULED LANGUAGES IN DESCENDING ORDER OF SPEAKERS' STRENGTH - 2001
  3. "Urdu in Bihar". Language in India. Retrieved 17 May 2008.
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  5. GOI census 2001: COMPARATIVE SPEAKERS' STRENGTH OF SCHEDULED LANGUAGES -1971, 1981, 1991 AND 2001 Archived 2009-04-11 at the Wayback Machine
  6. http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/PCA/PCA_Highlights/pca_highlights_file/India/Chapter-1.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
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  8. GOI census 2001: COMPARATIVE RANKING OF SCHEDULED LANGUAGES IN DESCENDING ORDER OF SPEAKERS' STRENGTH-1971, 1981, 1991 AND 2001