Native speakers of Urdu are spread across South Asia. The vast majority of them are Muslims of the Hindi–Urdu Belt of northern India, followed by the Deccani people of the Deccan plateau in south-cent
Regiment of Skinner's Horse returning from a General Review, 1828
Officer of Col Gardiner’s irregular Cavalry, "drawn mainly from Muslism from Hindoostan"
Sowar of the Rohilla Horse, 1815
7th Hussars, charging a body of the Mutineer's Cavalry, Alam Bagh, Lucknow
The two-nation theory was an ideology of religious nationalism that advocated Muslim Indian nationhood, with a separate homeland for Indian Muslims within a decolonised British India, which ultimately
The Mughal Empire in 1700
Syed Ahmed Khan, Mohsin-ul-Mulk and Syed Mahmud