After the British left India in 1947, the newly independent nation sought to promote Hindi as a link language to replace English. The constitution - enacted in 1950 - also nudges the federal ...

The Department of Official Language must ensure that English official names are not just available, but actively disseminated and made accessible, particularly in non-Hindi regions.

Non-Hindi-speaking states needed to teach the local language, Hindi and English. Hindi comes from the Indo-Aryan language family while Tamil comes from a distinct and separate Dravidian family.

Like learning math, from simple counting to solving complex equations, language learning happens in a similar stepwise fashion, with each new step building on previous knowledge. Brown (1973) outlines ...