In his lectures at the Cambridge University in 1884, British Civil Servant John Strachey had said: "This is first thing to learn about India that there is not, and never was an India, or even any country of India possessing, according to any European ideas; any sort of unity, physical, political, social or religious".
The Education Minister, Punjab and Spokesman of Congress Vijay Inder Singla yesterday (Sept. 22) said that "the ideology of One Nation One Language being propounded by the BJP would sound death knell for the federal structure of the country and is detrimental for a country like India having multi linguistic states".
The issue of languages in the Indian subcontinent is a sensitive and important political question. As the Hindutva nationalist are trying to impose their agenda of linguistic homogeneity and hegemonic imposition of Hindi in the Indian subcontinent, the language is expected to take prominence and spark unrest amongst various linguistic and cultural groups.