What is the National Language of India ?

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the tone the law is wrote seems like all indians are hindians :rolleyes:
3. Continuation of english Language for official purposes of the Union and for use in Parliament-

(1) Nothwithstanding the expiration of the period of fifteen years from the commencement of the Constitution, the English language may, as from the appointed day, continue to be used in addition to Hindi,
 
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101 to be precice :p
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So I can confirm that India does not have a national langague. However I find this part of constitution interesting

351. Directive for development of the Hindi language.

It shall be the duty of the Union to promote the spread of the Hindi language, to develop it so that it may serve as a medium of expression for all the elements of the composite culture of India and to secure its enrichment by assimilating without interfering with its genius, the forms, style and expressions used in Hindustani and in the other languages of India specified in the Eighth Schedule, and by drawing, wherever necessary or desirable, for its vocabulary, primarily on Sanskrit and secondarily on other languages.
 
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Faun

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so u are against the attitude snobs :)
that sounds reasonable, cuz human is homo sapiens after all
 

goobimama

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Oh my. We have this same debate in Goa as to which is the official language (Marathi or Konkani). Speak what you speak and be done with it I say!
 

Pathik

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I am a center Indian (Mumbai) and I ve never seen anyone enforcing any language. Dunno why you guys are always at loggerheads - North vs South and such sh!t. This is one India.
 
I am a center Indian (Mumbai) and I ve never seen anyone enforcing any language. Dunno why you guys are always at loggerheads - North vs South and such sh!t. This is one India.
@Pathik : go to Banglore or any other parts of south and see!.central gov tries to enforce Hindi. many south Indian states are saved due to the Anti-Hindi movement back in 1960's by Anna dura etc in Taamil naadu.

I can give you ppl a taste. think about India with Malayalam dominant speaking Language .now Bombay as native Hindi(marathi) speaking area. Now few of us , Malayalis come there and insist on talking dealing everything in Malayalam.now our Malayali dominant central government enforcing all schools central gov institutes to have Malayalam boards,Malayalam enforcement through their applications and other document options.

^feels like angry na?:eek: same problem here! in South!.

We appreciate English as a universal language ,not as a British Ghost.

Infact ,I believe British and English Education certainly helped states like old Travancore to be more economically and educationally upright. :)
 

NucleusKore

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Because it is the language in which the constitution, which guarantees our freedom of speech and expression, was written by our founding fathers. They were very wise people.
 

napster007

Padawan
I do not understand y the hell we among ourselfes behave racially? we have enuf trouble outside india ppl! we can't start fighting among ourselfs again!

though Hindi is documented as ur national language we have to keep in mind that india is the most diverse nation in the whole world with more than 200 languages spoken in diff parts of india. one should not expect everyone to know hindi!
 
^understanding this point you said solves the whole problems at a shot! :p .
...and be it a colonial LANG or not ,English is ,what allows the world to communicate! :p
 

iMav

The Devil's Advocate
Wasn't this in fight club, where some people got horribly pwned coz it was post after post proved that Hindi is considered and should be made.
 
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