Day 38 – Q 2.How can linguistic diversity be a source of social strife? How can this be addressed? Examine.
2. How can linguistic diversity be a source of social strife? How can this be addressed? Examine.
भाषाई विविधता सामाजिक संघर्ष का स्रोत कैसे हो सकती है? इसे कैसे संबोधित किया जा सकता है? जांच करें।
Synopsis:
Language created a great problem in post-independent era and continues to be one of the heavy weights on country’s political system. During the days of freedom struggle national leaders always promised the masses that Indian languages will be fully developed in free India and even states will be reorganized on the basis of languages, so that each language got full opportunity to develop and grow.
Language has created problems that it has resulted in demonstrations in some parts of the country and also stands on the way of emotional and national integration. B.N. Rau perhaps rightly said that, “One of the most difficult problems in the framing of India’s new constitution will be to satisfy the demand for linguistic provinces and other demands of a like nature.”
In independent India there are various commissions and committees to resolve the issue of language in India to make a peaceful transition like Dhar commission, J.V.P. committee and then state reorganization committees have been set up to study this.
Linguistic diversity as a source of social strife:
- India has a long history of linguistic unrest, for example creation of Andhra Pradesh post-independence, separation of Maharashtra and Gujarat etc.
- There is a north-south divide on the basis of language and it will stir whenever government thinks to promote official language as such. This causes the regionalism feeling at large.
- Masses who speak their language feel discriminated when there is an official language present in the state and they get imposed. For example: tribal languages in the Jharkhand and any other states.
- Political issues as we have seen recently west Bengal when they imposed Bengali on the gorkhaland people, they started agitation against the move and then the separate state agitation got ignited.
- Discrimination of state government and central governments in the employments in all the arenas also we can witness.
- All the education is not in the native languages, especially in the tribal languages is the biggest barrier for them to get alienated from the society and there spurns the social strife.
- Exploitation of people by the politicians to linguistic diversity, as it not only a binder with the masses but also it divides people on the name of it politically.
- Erosion of national feeling in long run if it continues.
Measures need to be taken:
- Government should be more sensitive towards the people’s aspiration and they shouldn’t impose any language on them against their will. There should be having that legislative back up to protect the minority languages.
- We need to follow the three language formula and there is a need to develop extensively all the languages.
- Need to use the technology and the new means to promote the language and the tolerance among the citizens at large, like internet and government need to conduct some of the awareness campaigns for the betterment of it.
- Government’s initiatives like Ek Bharath Shresth Bharath need to be promoted as much as government can.
Conclusion:
There is no country like India, quite as diverse, multi-lingual and multi-cultural, yet bound together by the ancient bounds of shared traditions, culture and values. Such bonds need to be strengthened through enhanced and continuous mutual interaction between people of varied regions and ways of life so that it encourages reciprocity and secures an enriched value system of unity amongst people of different States in a culturally special country like INDIA.
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