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Happy New Year Twenty-Ten
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MYTH: Hindi is the national language of India http://tinyurl.com/yc3mvuf
2010/1/3 Cip Fernandes <cip.fernan...@yahoo.com>:
> Which language is the National Language of India?
QUOTE:
n the Constituent Assembly there were suggestions to make Hindi,
English and even Sanskrit the official language, but the bitter fight
was between the champions of English and Hindi. Finally, which is
India’s national language? The fact is there is no single one. The
Constitution had mandated the President to constitute a commission,
five years after the commencement of the Constitution, to recommend on
the issue. The B.G. Kher Commission’s recommendations were reviewed by
a committee headed by the home minister G.B. Pant.
When the issue was being debated in Parliament in September 1959, the
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru assured the House that neither would
there be any hindrance on the use of English as an associate language
nor would there be fixed any time limit for it. “All the languages of
India [will be]... equally respected and are our National Languages.”
By that definition, there are today 22 national languages, those
listed in the eighth schedule Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri,
Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam,
Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi,
Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
UNQUOTE
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