On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan <che...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Are you kidding me? I am with you that he didn't quite manage to wipe > every last memory of Hindi out, but he went far with his silly ideas. > > He's more or less single handedly responsible for the ideology that > led to the decimation of the TamBram society for example. > > Yes. But he is also responsible for a bit of diversity in India's linguistic landscape. There was (and still is) a serious attempt to force Language A down people's throats; homogenisation is WRONG in pretty much everything. C