Goa, June 15 -- The Rajasthan government has announced a major administrative shift, instructing the state police to discontinue the use of Urdu and Persian in all official documents, proceedings, and investigations, and instead adopt Hindi exclusively. The directive came from State Home Minister Jawahar Singh Bedham, who communicated the order to the Director General of Police and requested a formal proposal to implement the change.

Bedham justified the move by stating that Rajasthan is a Hindi-speaking state and the use of Urdu and Persian in police documentation is a vestige of the Mughal era, when these languages were central to governance. In today's context, he argued, most police personnel lack proficiency in Urdu or Persian, whil...