Do you think that the linguistic recognition of States has helped or harmed India? Explain.

Solution

Linguistic recognition of States helped rather than harmed India:
(i) It was felt that State based on language might hasten further a sub-division of India. However, far from undermining the Indian unity, linguistic states have helped strengthed it.
(ii) It was taken to be perfectly consistent to be a Kannadigo and Indian Bengali and Indian, Tamil and India, Gujarati and India.
(iii) These States based on language, sometimes quarrel with each other; while these disputes are not petty, they could infact have been far worse.
(iv) If the aspirations of the Indian language communities had been ignored, we might have got 'one language, 14 or 15 nations'.

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