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Languages in India

Source : Census 2001

Unlike Europe, the speakers of hundreds of different languages in India agreed to belong to a single nation because the Constitution promised them freedom of expression, making it mandatory on the state to encourage languages ‘without harming other languages’.

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Bengali textbooks and novels being burnt outside the Manipur Legislative Assembly premises by protesters demanding that Meitei should substitute Bengali in educational institutions, in Imphal in February 2005. Photo – PTI

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