Editing Urdu (section)

=== India ===
In India, Urdu is spoken in places where there are large Muslim minorities or cities that were bases for Muslim empires in the past. These include parts of [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[Bihar]], [[Telangana]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[Maharashtra]] ([[Marathwada]] and Konkanis), [[Karnataka]] and cities such as [[Hyderabad]], [[Lucknow]], [[Delhi]], [[Malerkotla]], [[Bareilly]], [[Meerut]], [[Saharanpur]], [[Muzaffarnagar]], [[Roorkee]], [[Deoband]], [[Moradabad]], [[Azamgarh]], [[Bijnor]], [[Najibabad]], [[Rampur, Uttar Pradesh|Rampur]], [[Aligarh]], [[Allahabad]], [[Gorakhpur]], [[Agra]], [[Firozabad]], [[Kanpur]], [[Badaun]], [[Bhopal]], [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]], [[Aurangabad, Maharashtra|Aurangabad]],<ref name="MOE Nepal-1994" /> [[Bangalore]], [[Kolkata]], [[Mysore]], [[Patna]], [[Darbhanga]], [[Gaya, India|Gaya]], [[Madhubani, Bihar|Madhubani]], [[Samastipur]], [[Siwan, Bihar|Siwan]], [[Saharsa]], [[Supaul]], [[Muzaffarpur]], [[Nalanda]], [[Munger]], [[Bhagalpur]], [[Araria]], [[Gulbarga]], [[Parbhani]], [[Nanded]], [[Malegaon]], [[Bidar]], [[Ajmer]], and [[Ahmedabad]].<ref name="Urdu-2016">[http://www.dictionary.com/browse/urdu "Urdu"]{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319020509/http://www.dictionary.com/browse/urdu|date=19 March 2016}}. ''[[Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary]]''.</ref> In a very significant number among the nearly 800 districts of India, there is a small Urdu-speaking minority at least. In [[Araria district]], Bihar, there is a plurality of Urdu speakers and near-plurality in [[Hyderabad district, Telangana]] (43.35% Telugu speakers and 43.24% Urdu speakers).

Some Indian Muslim schools ([[Madrasa]]) teach Urdu as a first language and have their own syllabi and exams.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ahmad |first=Imtiaz |date=2002 |title=Urdu and Madrasa Education |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4412235 |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=37 |issue=24 |pages=2285–2287 |jstor=4412235 |issn=0012-9976}}</ref> In fact, the language of [[Bollywood]] films tend to contain a large number of Persian and Arabic words and thus considered to be "Urdu" in a sense,<ref name="Warsi-2021">{{Cite web |date=27 February 2021 |title=Is Urdu losing its charm in Bollywood films? |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/in-perspective/is-urdu-losing-its-charm-in-bollywood-films-955816.html |access-date=19 May 2023 |website=Deccan Herald |language=en}}</ref> especially in songs.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=238ZBQAAQBAJ&q=bollywood+urdu&pg=PT214|title=Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song|last=Beaster-Jones|first=Jayson|date=9 October 2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-999348-2|language=en}}</ref>

India has more than 3,000 Urdu publications, including 405 daily Urdu newspapers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Urdu newspapers: growing, not dying |url=http://asu.thehoot.org/research/research-studies/urdu-newspapers-growing-not-dying-9683 |website=asu.thehoot.org |access-date=6 September 2020 |archive-date=26 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226152811/http://asu.thehoot.org/research/research-studies/urdu-newspapers-growing-not-dying-9683 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Russell |first1=Ralph |title=Urdu in India since Independence |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |pages=44–48 |date=1999|volume=34 |issue=1/2 |jstor=4407548 }}</ref> Newspapers such as ''Neshat News Urdu'', ''Sahara Urdu'', ''Daily Salar'', ''Hindustan Express'', ''Daily Pasban'', ''[[The Siasat Daily|Siasat Daily]]'', ''[[The Munsif Daily]]'' and ''Inqilab'' are published and distributed in Bangalore, Malegaon, Mysore, Hyderabad, and [[Mumbai]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.auditbureau.org/files/JJ2017%20Highest%20Circulated%20amongst%20ABC%20Member%20Publications%20(language%20wise).pdf | title=Highest Circulated amongst ABC Member Publications Jan - Jun 2017| publisher=Audit Bureau of Circulations| access-date=12 September 2020}}</ref>