Talk:Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu

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This is a significant incident in the history of India. This page needs a lot of expansion.Doctor Bruno 18:02, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Not a history but a happening

Anti Hindi feelings are present in a sizable section of Tamils in India today. The central government is accused of spreading a false propaganda that learning Hindi will bring prosperity to Tamils..

Hindi is not being imposed on the people. Now that India is more integrated, Hindi is naturally making inroads into other parts of India. However, we must understand that in cities and towns of Tamil Nadu, (apart from Chennai), even today it is literally impossible to transact any business without the knowledge of Tamil.. English is not of great help..

The situation is different in the rest of the country, especially the urban areas.. A knowledge of Hindi and/or English is quite sufficient .. In fact, languages such as Gujarati and Assamese are beginning to decline. And on my last trip to Madurai, Tamil Nadu, I encountered more Hindi speakers. Also, English is proving to be the "ultimate language" of India , contrary to what our freedom fighters had envisioned..

NPOV

The article as it stands is written almost entirely from the Tamil POV ("Indian security forces massed into Tamil Nadu and their ruthless shootings of unarmed demonstrators" etc), and is very short on what these "impositions" and their rationale actually were. Jpatokal 14:24, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

This article ONLY focuses on the Tamil perspective of Hindi-Agitations. While it is true that violent agitations primarily occurred in Tamil Nadu only, there are many other states, including, but not limited to, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal, the Northeastern states, and many others had mild "agitations" against Hindi imposition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.188.87.114 (talk) 03:46, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Other Indo-Aryan languages?

Would the recent Marathi riots of Maharashtra incited by Raj Thackeray of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena fall under this article or should there be a wider resistance to Hindi category?

Hcobb (talk) 13:58, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

The central govt in Delhi has plans to wantonly ignore other languages and pave the way for their decline by sole use of Hindi and by the portrial of India to the outside world as Hindia.

Except for some sentiments raised by Tamils, other language speakers are simply taking it for granted to accept Hindi as their officated mother tongue.

Some examples of Hindian propoganda by both the Hindian central government and large MNCs: 1>Gas books across India printed only in Hindi and English 2>Air Hindia, Hindian Airlines, S(J)et(h) Airway etc having announcements only in English and Hindi. 3>Hindi being compulsory in CBSE schools while Hindian can choose to skip the state language in favour of Sanskrit 4>Lack of opportunity of native Tamils in the north leave alone North Indians to learn Tamil and other southern languages in their areas 5>Tamil being portrayed with lude ‘comical’ roles in Hindian films 6>Hindian railways train tickets skipping the state language 7>Airports (like in Madras) hiring Hindians who cant speak Tamil/state language 8>Hindian Railway and other Hindian institution websites restricted to only Hindi and English 9>Hindian movies only being sent to the Oscars and other cultural events ignoring other languages 10>Hindian bank passbooks skipping the state language 11>ATMs of most banks (Citibank, Hindian Bank etc restricting to Hindi and English) 12>Looking down on states of Tamil Nadu because of refusal to prescribe to “accept-Hindi-as-your-language” attitude 13. The very use of the term “Regional language” to non-Hindi languages 14. The use of Hindian stickers in trains and else portaying “speaking Hindi is nationalism” and other propoganda messages stating use of English or non-Hindi as not being nationalistic. 15. The very absence of languages other than Hindi on the symbol of citizenship of the country– the passport

The above is a part of a sinister policy create to transform India to simply Hindia or Hindistan. These remarks are taken as fascist…but you need to ask yourself whether the National Language policy of India itself isnt fascist. If you trace the history since independence regarding the use of language apart from Hindi, you can foretell the future plan for this fascist policy.

This Hindian fascism should not make it a big mistake for India to be a lingual union. The last thing for the country is encouragement a colonial attitude by speakers of the “elevated” lingo.

DMK, PMK and other Tamil traitors are happy with this scenario as they are in business with their Hindian masters who safeguarding the TN reservation policy, where several Hindi OBCs get reservation in TN while Tamil FCs are thrown out. Their vote bank has been assured by their Hindian masters

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