Ar Venkatachalapathy (L), historian, author and professor of the Madras Development Institute, Tamil Nadu, Laxmikant Deshmukh (Center), Chair, Chairman of the Maharashtra Language Advisory Committee, and Varghese K. George (R), Maharashtra Talks Talks Talk (R), Hindu Hindu Huddle Hindu Huddle. |Picture source: K. Bhagya Prakash
AR AR Venkatachalapathy, historian, author and professor of the Madras Development Institute.
He said at a messy Hindu meeting on Saturday that any attempt to impose a single language does not implement any single language, often ending up undermining its identity.
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He said that speeches about language being the core of cultural identity for thousands of years have been deeply rooted in many social movements. Even the Bhakti movement was strongly rooted in language, as it was a protest against the hegemony of Sanskrit and Brahman rituals in many parts of the country. Mr. Venkatachalapathy said that although Dravid’s language was linguistically different from Sanskrit and part of the Indian-European language family, culturally, regional languages grew with the movement of piety that was contrary to Sanskrit around the second millennium of India, which developed throughout India when Sanskrit was opposed.
Historically, as regional languages developed, Indian nationalism became stronger in the struggle for independence and developed into a popular phenomenon, with the information of the state spreading through various regional languages. Speaking about the debate in the Constitutional Assembly, he said that people who are committed to the cause of the country refuse to give Hindi an unfair advantage by making it the only official language.
Regarding the question of language purity, he said that language has developed organically and does not exist in isolation. “In the past 100 years, Tamil, Malayalam and others have been greatly secularized. From languages seriously affected by religious customs, they have become extremely secular. Tamil no longer has debts due to the Shivit religion, a democratic language, a democratic language with various religious and regional influences. We cannot preserve language in pure form,” he said. ”
Laxmikant Deshmukh, Chairman of the Language Advisory Committee, said that part of the state government was unreasonable, “imposed Hindi on the third mandatory language of Level I” because it violated the National Education Policy for 2020, which introduced only a third language from Class VI.
He said that an overview of the linguistic history of Maharashtra, which aims to establish Marathi, the language of people who are also “the language of knowledge”, said that there is no problem with the statement that Marathas speaks Hindi, but the attempt to dominate culturally is worrying.
Mr Deshmukh said that a language and a religion have not been able to function for a long time in India, as Hindu religions vary in various regions. Varghese K. George, the Hindus’s resident editor, presided over the meeting.
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