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The anti-Hindi-imposition agitations in Tamil Nadu have been ongoing intermittently in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras State and part of Madras Presidency) since the early 20th century.
Students across Tamil Nadu pelted stones on buses, set trains on fire and some even immolated themselves in the 1960s. Eventually, the proposal was dropped. Under Prime Minister Lal Bahadur...
The riots that happened in Madurai on the day before Republic Day in 1965 have traditionally been framed in binaries such as Tamil versus Hindi, non-Brahmins versus Brahmins, south India versus north India.
No agitation of similar intensity and scale had ever before been known in Madras, and it demonstrated deep-seated dissatisfaction with the language policy of the Government of India and the mounting strength of some new political forces.
- The History of Anti-Hindi Protests in Tamil Nadu
- Reformations in Tamil Nadu
- Concerns of Language Imperialism
- Hindi Imposition Isn’T Just An Imposition of Language
- References
During the first anti-Hindi agitation, many leaders were arrested and two leaders – Natarajan and Thalamuthu lost their lives in the protest. The protest lasted for about three years and finally, Lord Erskine withdrew the bill after the resignation of Congress in 1940. Again after Independence, when Nehru then Prime Minister tried to introduce Hind...
Historically, Tamils have always been fierce protectors of their language and culture and have always taken pride in it. The language has gone through several reformations where sounds and words of Sanskrit origin were either removed or translated to ‘pure Tamil’. Letters that were taken from Grantha script were removed and new letters were created...
There are several reasons why I personally believe Hindi imposition or imposition of any language is a bad idea. All that a government does regarding languages are often discussed under ‘Language Planning’ and ‘Status Planning’ in Linguistics. When a government decides to endorse a language, the language gains more popularity and is assigned some s...
Culture and Language go hand-in-hand. It is quite difficult to discuss one without the other. Philologists and Linguists discuss this with the help of a theory called ‘Linguistic Relativity theory’. The theory of linguistic relativity states that the structure of a language influences the way its speakers conceptualize the world. It helps us see th...
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Feb 5, 2018 · On January 25, 1965, DMK leaders, including Annadurai, were taken into preventive custody. Some 50,000 students from colleges in Madras marched to Fort St George, the seat of the government, to petition Chief Minister M Bhaktavatsalam to remove Hindi from the school curriculum.
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Jul 22, 2018 · After 1967, as changes swept through Tamil Nadu following the election of the first regional party government in the State, S. Narayan had a ringside view, first as a student and later as a part...
