Shah made an appeal to unify India by promoting Hindi, the country’s most widely spoken language, as the national language. This caused the southern and northeastern states to seethe with anger.įurther, close on the heels of scrapping the constitutional autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir, many leaders in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are now proposing declaring Devanagari (Hindi script) the official script for regional languages, including Kashmiri - the mother tongue of a large population in the scenic Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley. Stirring up a hornet’s nest, Home Minister Amit Shah recently suggested declaring Hindi, mostly spoken in northern India, to be the country’s national language. ![]() Pushing for a common national tongue in India - home to more than 19,500 languages, including 22 recognized in the Constitution - has been a contentious issue since the nation declared independence over 70 years ago.
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