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Language Policy in India: Effect and Impact on Society

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The History of Hindustani in India

Hindustani was chosen and partially applied as an official language. Sadhupa: There were some sort of resistance from different other parts against Hindustani, which we see today that there is a resistance against implementation of Hindi everywhere. As a saint, throughout the independence movement, official language had relative importance under charismatic authority of our great freedom fighters and leaders. So... Okay, like what you said about this, it was basically the pre-independent India. It was the nationalistic movement which tried to slowly replace English with Hindustani as the language of the mass.

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