Re:India’s lost 220 languages in past 50 years
by varunsrin on Sunday August 18, 2013 @04:08PM
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This would be received very poorly by most of the sub-continent, and apart from being just controversial would be impossible to actually enforce.
Those familiar with the political tensions in the South (especially Tamil Nadu) between Dravidian Languages & Indo-Aryan, would point out that you'd have better luck getting them to switch to English than Hindi at this point.
Those familiar with the political tensions in the South (especially Tamil Nadu) between Dravidian Languages & Indo-Aryan, would point out that you'd have better luck getting them to switch to English than Hindi at this point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Hindi_agitation_of_1937%E2...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Hindi_agitations_of_Tamil_...