Career
He started teaching Urdu at Islamia College, Lahore in 1921. In 1928 he moved to Oriental College, Lahore. He was a researcher and his popular theory was “Punjab Mein Urdu” which make him famous in Urdu searching field
Beside this he was the father of famous Urdu poet Akhtar Sheerani.Hafiz Mahmood Khan SheranI, died in his native town of Tonk.
Hafiz Mahmood Sherani is credited with the theory that says Urdu was born in Punjab. He also enlisted some similarities between Urdu and Punjabi.
Of course there are some identical traits that lend credulity to this theory, but Mr Sabzwari and Masood Hussain Khan proved this theory was incorrect. Aside from historical aspects, they showed that in addition to similarities between the two languages, there were a large number of syntactical and morphological differences that proved that Urdu was not Punjabi’s daughter.
In fact, Mr Sherani was not the first to reach this conclusion and before him some renowned linguists and scholars such as Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, T. Graham Bailey and Mohiuddin Qadri Zor had expressed similar views, though Mr Sherani was the first to try to thoroughly prove the theory.