how is federalism practised in India with respect to language policy and Centre state relation
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The creation of Linguistic States was the first and a major test for democratic politics in our country :
1. The creation of Linguistic States was the first and a major test for democratic politics in our country: Many old States have vanished and many new States have been created. Areas, boundaries and names of the States have been changed. In 1947, the boundaries of several old States were changed in order to create new States. This was done to ensure that people who spoke the same language lived in the same State. Some States were created not on the basis of language but to recognize differences based on culture, ethnicity or geography. These include States like Nagaland, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand.
2. Language policy : A second test for Indian federation is the language policy. Our Constitution did not give the status of national language to any one language. Hindi was identified as the official language. But Hindi is the mother tongue of only about 40 per cent of Indians. Therefore, there were many safeguards to protect other languages. Besides Hindi, there are 21 other languages recognized as Scheduled Languages Constitution
3. Center-State relations : restructuring the Center - State relations is one more way in which federalism has been strengthened in practice . since 1990 , COALITION GOVTS were at the Center. Since no single party got a clear majority in the Lok Sabha, the major national parties had to enter into an alliance with many parties including several regional parties to form a government at the Center .