[Levin]

Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi
Sun 25 Dec 2022 11.00 GMT


Tensions are rising in India over prime minister Narendra Modi’s push to make Hindi the country’s dominant language.

Modi’s Bharatiya Janaya party (BJP) government has been accused of an agenda of “Hindi imposition” and “Hindi imperialism” and non-Hindi speaking states in south and east India have been fighting back.

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In India, one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world, language has long been a contentious issue. But under Modi, there has been a tangible push for Hindi to be the country’s dominant language, be it through an attempt to impose mandatory Hindi in schools across the country to conducting matters of government entirely in the language. Modi’s speeches are given exclusively in Hindi and over 70% of cabinet papers are now prepared in Hindi.

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According to the most recent census in 2011, 44% of Indians speak Hindi. However, 53 native languages, some of which are entirely distinct from Hindi and have millions of speakers, are also classed under the banner of Hindi. Removing all the other languages would shrink the number of Hindi speakers to about 27%, meaning almost three-quarters of the country is not fluent.

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Hindi traditionally has very little presence in southern states such as Tamil-speaking Tamil Nadu and Kannada-speaking Kerala, and eastern states such as West Bengal, home to 78 million Bengali speakers.

When the constitution was drawn up in 1949 it was decided that India should have no one national language. Instead 14 languages – a list which eventually grew to 22 – were formally recognised in the constitution


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/d...e-of-india

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[CHAOS]

American say India is another freedom and democracy country on earth

[cityhantam]

American say India is another freedom and democracy country on earth

World's biggest democracy! 

[OutBreak]

World's biggest democracy! 

What a joke. Haha.

[kelhot2001]

You see they have failed where China succeeded.

CCP, especially under great leader Xi, has successfully installed Mandarin Chinese as the only allowed official language, thus pushing all other dialects and other minority languages to the brink of extinction, and thus showing the whole world the power and benevolence of Han dominance and Han hegemony.

[cityhantam]

You see they have failed where China succeeded.

CCP, especially under great leader Xi, has successfully installed Mandarin Chinese as the only allowed official language, thus pushing all other dialects and other minority languages to the brink of extinction, and thus showing the whole world the power and benevolence of Han dominance and Han hegemony.

You are very good at distorting facts and posting LIES hor! 

[Blin]

Too big to rule. break into 5 countries would be good those ah Lims support China can carry on.

[Napoleon Porlumpar]

hope this will end up in all out civil war...............

[Levin]

Note that the above is just an approximation as there are way too many languages and regions.

Here's an article on this topic which is not as comprehensive: https://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/india/i...guages.htm

[cityhantam]

India was "created" by Brits!

[Manthink]

That's why SGreans need to be aware "Indian" by anthropology definition is NOT a "race".
E.g. Northern Indians will be offended if SGreans lump them with "Bangla", which the former regard the later as "outcaste" tribes.

On the national policy POV, Modi is repeating the same fatal mistakes made by Bolehland on race/language/religious preferential treatment.
In country like India, this is an explosive subject.

[Rubitin]

That's why SGreans need to be aware "Indian" by anthropology definition is NOT a "race".
E.g. Northern Indians will be offended if SGreans lump them with "Bangla", which the former regard the later as "outcaste" tribes.

On the national policy POV, Modi is repeating the same fatal mistakes made by Bolehland on race/language/religious preferential treatment.
In country like India, this is an explosive subject.

Cannot drag on? must start somewhere.
 If did it 100yrs ago 'one people one nation one India'.

[Manthink]

Cannot drag on? must start somewhere.
 If did it 100yrs ago 'one people one nation one India'.

You got to remember - "India" as a country didn't exist until the AMTK came and give those South Asians a name of a state.

The problem with such "India state" was created to do just 1 thing - Serve and enrich the Angmoh Highness Far Far Away in England.
Funni thing is some Indians today are more AMTK than their forefathers...





King Charle's great great grand parents (aka Emperor of India) in colonial India 1911 - and no none of them bother to learn Hindi or Tamil languages.

[Rubitin]

You got to remember - "India" as a country didn't exist until the AMTK came and give those South Asians a name of a state.

The problem with such "India state" was created to do just 1 thing - Serve and enrich the Angmoh Highness Far Far Away in England.
Funni thing is some Indians today are more AMTK than their forefathers...





King Charle's great great grand parents (aka Emperor of India) in colonial India 1911 - and no none of them bother to learn Hindi or Tamil languages.

India has all the Time no rushing. That Diamond Crown on display some wanted to take back. no way.

[Manthink]

India has all the Time no rushing. That Diamond Crown on display some wanted to take back. no way.

Perhaps UK's PM Sunak can try to score some brownie points with his AMTK colleges to help India get back that Diamond ?