ESSAYLANGUAGE, IDENTITY & MULTILINGUAL INDIA
When "Foreign" and "Indigenous" Stop Meaning Anything Useful
The Supreme Court's hearings on the CBSE three-language formula have reopened debate on whether English counts as an "indigenous" Indian language, prompting linguists to point out that Hindi's own Census classification — absorbing 56 smaller languages as its "subsets" — undermines the entire indigenous/foreign framework the Court is using.
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