How is Language Saveguards provide in the Constitution of India?
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How is Language Saveguards provide in the Constitution of India?
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On August 15, 1947, India achieved independence, although the country was immediately partitioned into two separate countries: Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan. The following year, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu extremist, and the disappearance of the inspirational force behind independence ushered in a new period in Indian history. Nonetheless, on January 26, 1950, India adopted a new constitution that created a federal state known as the Indian Union, a democratic lay republic and member of the British Commonwealth.
The Constitution adopted in 1950 stipulated that English and Hindi would be used for the Union's official business for a period of fifteen years (s. 343(2) and 343(3)). After that time, Hindi was supposed to become the sole official language of the Union. It proved impossible to replace English with Hindi, however, because of strong opposition from the southern states, where Dravidian languages were spoken. They felt that the federal government was trying to impose Hindi across the country, including the south, and preferred to continue using English, which they found more "acceptable" because, unlike Hindi, it was not associated with any particular ethnic group. Later, the Official Languages Act legally established Hindi and English as the languages used in Congress, while leaving states and territories free to choose their own official languages.
Note that the Act was adopted in English and Hindi