 Akhtar Husain witnessed the historic 1936 meeting of Sahitya Parishad in which Mahatma Gandhi declared that Hindi rather than Hindustani (which includes Urdu and technically Caribbean Hindustani as well) be the national language of India upon independence.Upon this, Haq stopped all his works in Hindi, including the development of the English-Hindi dictionary, and Husain left Aurangabad for Dehli where he had difficulty settling for a career as a result of his application being rejected.He then applied to Sorbonne where he pursued a PHD in ancient life in the Indian subcontinent based on Sanskrit texts.