Languages with official status in India
The Indian constitution, in 1950, declared Hindi in Devanagari script to be the official language of the union. Unless Parliament decided otherwise, the use of English for official purposes was to cease 15 years after the constitution came into effect, i.e., on 26 January 1965. The prospect of the changeover, however, led to much alarm in the non Hindi-speaking areas of India, especially Dravidian-speaking states whose languages were not related to Hindi at all. As a result, Parliament enacted the ,
Sanskrit revival
Sanskrit revival is the accumulation of attempts at reviving the Sanskrit language that have been undertaken.This revival is happening not only in India bit also in western countries like Australia,Germany,UK,US and in many European countries.The revival of Sanskrit has also been a part political controversy in India ,as the language is deeply linked with Hinduism.Critics cites Hindu hardliners are promoting Sanskrit as a way of imposing Hindu superiority on the country’s religious and linguistic minorities.Sanskrit is one of the 22 official languages in India.It is also the second official language in Uttarakhand state in India.