In the year 1867, the British government was going to change the Perso-Arabic script of the official language to Devanagari and adopt Hindi as the second official language on demand of Hindu activists of United Province and Bihar. Well known muslim reformer Sir Syed Ahmed Khan strongly condemned the decision.
In the year 1914 (28th July), First World War started and ended in 1918 (11th November). England, France Russia was on a side and Germany, Austria, Hungary and Turkey were on another side.