Question

What was the official language of the Mughal court?
A) Urdu
B) Hindi
C) Persian
D) Arabic

Answer 1

Hint: The Mughals, who ruled over the Indian subcontinent, created one of the world's great empires. Babur was the first Mughal ruler. He invaded from central Asia in 1526, and his descendants then ruled for over 200 years.

Complete answer:
(A) Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the official national language and lingua franca of Pakistan.
(B) Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in India. Hindi has been described as a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language, which itself is based primarily on the Khariboli dialect of Delhi and neighbouring areas of Northern India.
(C )There was a deep and strong influence of Persian language and culture on the Mughal rulers due to their roots traced back to Persia and Continuous diplomatic ties. Thus, Persian continued to remain the official language of the Mughal Court. It is also because many persian artists ,craftsmen and learned people came to India and settled here during the Mughal period.
(D) Arabic is a Semitic language that first emerged in the 1st to 4th centuries CE. It is now the lingua franca of the Arab world. It is named after the Arabs, a term initially used to describe peoples living in the area bounded by Mesopotamia in the east and the Anti-Lebanon mountains in the west, in Northwestern Arabia and in the Sinai Peninsula.

Hence the correct answer is option C.

Note: With the key word of the Mughal we can identify that the language used before the Pre independence would be persian . The language was written in a type of Perso-Arabic script known as Nastaliq, and with literary conventions and specialised vocabulary borrowed from Persian, Arabic and Turkic languages; the dialect was eventually given its own name of Urdu.The Mughals spoke what later became known as Urdu,and by the year 1700, the Mughals had formalized the language.