AR Venkatchalapathy (L), historian, author and professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Tamil Nadu, Laxmikant Deshmukh (Centrum), Chairman, Language Consultation Committee, Maharashtra speaks with Varghese K. George (R), resident editor in Hind. | Photo Credit: K. Bhagya Prakash
India, which had a certain civilization unity, although it has no dominant language, can continue to be a prosperous democratic, plural society and a strong nation with its number of languages that have a long history and are deeply rooted, Arch Venkatchalappathy, historian, author and professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies.
Rather than Forge Unity, any attempt to store a single language often ends in weakening his identity, while on Saturday he spoke at the “Vox populi: Vox populi: Language and Identity Wars forming our culture”.
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The opening of its notes that the language is the central point of cultural identity over millennia, said many social movements are deeply rooted in language. Even the Bhakti movement was strongly rooted in the language, because it was a protest against the Hegemony of Sanskrit and the Brahminic rituals in many parts of the Earth. While the birds of prey remained linguistically different from Sanskrit and other parts of the Indo -European language family, culturally, regional languages grew with devoted movements that developed throughout India around the turn of the second millennium in opposition to Sanskrit, Venkakalapath said.
Historically, Indian nationalism has become stronger during the struggle for independence and evolved into a mass phenomenon when regional languages developed, and the national of the nation was promoted by various regional languages. When he talked about the debates in the free assembly, he said that people who were committed to the cause of the nation refused to give Hindi to an unfair advantage by becoming the only official language.
Asked about the purity of the languages, the languages had evolved organically and did not exist in isolation. “Over the past 100 years, Tamil, Malayalam, etc. have become largely secularized. The languages strongly influenced by religious idiom have become extremely secular. Tamil is no longer indebted to Shivite’s religion, it is a democratic language with various religious and regional influences.
Laxmikant Deshmukh, chairman of the Language Consultation Committee, Maharashtra, said it was irrational by the state government “to deposit Hindi as the third compulsory language from Class I” because it went against the national educational policy- 2020, which determined the introduction of third language only from class VI.
He outlined the Maharashtra of Linguistic History, which was to establish a marathi, the language of people as well as the “language of knowledge”, he said that Marathas had no problem talking to Hindi, but attempts to cultural dominance were worrying.
Mr. Dehmukh said that one language and one religion would not work in India for a long time, because the Hindu religion is diverse across regions. Varghese K. George, editor of Hindu for Delhi, moderated the meeting.
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Published – May 10, 2025 20:23
