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S2E7: The National Language Puzzle in India

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The Problems and Challenges in Destabilizing English

Azad's speech could be divided into two parts. The first part was devoted to endorsing the decision taken by the drafting committee with regard to language. He made it clear that there was a need for consensus, and the matter should not be unnecessarily pushed through. On the issue of national language, he said the general framework or set up of the guage spoken all over northern india is one and the same. But in its literary style, it has got two names: urdu and hindi.

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