Original sentence: " Both religious communities also wrote the language in the Perso-Arabic script in courts and government offices, though Hindus continued to employ Devanagari in religious contexts.Hindus in northwestern India, under the Arya Samaj agitated against the sole use of the Perso-Arabic script and argued that the language should be written in the native Devanagari script, which triggered a backlash against the use of Hindi written in Devanagari by the Anjuman-e-Islamia of Lahore.In colonial India, Persian and Arabic were taught as the languages of Indo-Islamic civilisation; the British, in order to encourage Muslims to attend government schools, started to offer Urdu classes in them and after this time, Urdu became seen by Indian Muslims as a symbol of their identity.In the colonial Indian United Provinces, "ordinary Muslims and Hindus alike spoke the same language in the United Provinces in the nineteenth century, namely Hindustani, whether called by that name or whether called Hindi, Urdu, or one of the regional dialects such as Braj or Awadhi.Urdu replaced Persian as the official language of India in 1837 and was made co-official, along with English.Urdu, which was often referred to by the British as Hindustani, was promoted in colonial India by British policies to counter the previous emphasis on Persian
Edited sentence: Hindustani in Persian script was used by Muslims and Hindus, but was current chiefly in Muslim-influenced society.This triggered a Hindu backlash in northwestern India, which under the Arya Samaj agitated against the use of Urdu and argued that the language should be written in the native Devanagari script, which triggered a backlash against the use of Hindi by the Anjuman-e-Islamia of Lahore.Urdu replaced Persian as the official language in 1837 and was made co-official, along with English.Urdu, which was often referred to by the British as “Hindustani,” was promoted in colonial India by British policies to counter the previous emphasis on Persian