Editing Hindi (section)

===Independent India===

On 14 September 1949, the [[Constituent Assembly of India]] adopted Hindi written in the Devanagari script as the [[Official languages of Union govt of India|official language of the Republic of India]] replacing the previous usage of Hindustani in the Perso-Arabic script in the [[British Indian Empire]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ieMgAAAAQBAJ|title=Pluricentric Languages: Differing Norms in Different Nations|last=Clyne|first=Michael|date=24 May 2012|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-088814-0|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QuEmDAAAQBAJ|title=The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution|last1=Choudhry|first1=Sujit|last2=Khosla|first2=Madhav|last3=Mehta|first3=Pratap Bhanu|date=12 May 2016|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-105861-5|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/sikhsofpunjab0000grew|url-access=registration|title=The Sikhs of the Punjab|last=Grewal|first=J. S.|date=8 October 1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-63764-0|language=en}}</ref> To this end, several stalwarts rallied and lobbied pan-India in favour of Hindi, most notably [[:hi:व्यौहार राजेन्द्र सिंह|Beohar Rajendra Simha]] along with [[Hazari Prasad Dwivedi]], [[Kaka Kalelkar]], [[Maithili Sharan Gupt]] and [[Seth Govind Das]] who even debated in Parliament on this issue. As such, on the 50th birthday of Beohar Rajendra Simha on 14 September 1949, the efforts came to fruition following the adoption of Hindi as the official language.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.patrika.com/news/jabalpur/know-hindi-had-the-status-of-national-language-1398330|title=हिन्दी दिवस विशेष: इनके प्रयास से मिला था हिन्दी को राजभाषा का दर्जा|date=8 September 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911204803/https://www.patrika.com/news/jabalpur/know-hindi-had-the-status-of-national-language-1398330/|archive-date=11 September 2017}}</ref> Now, it is celebrated as [[Hindi Day]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/research/hindi-diwas-celebration-how-it-all-began/|work=[[The Indian Express]]|title=Hindi Diwas celebration: How it all began|date=14 September 2016|access-date=7 February 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208134226/http://indianexpress.com/article/research/hindi-diwas-celebration-how-it-all-began/|archive-date=8 February 2017}}</ref>