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why is english an office national language of India and not the U.S.?


477 posted on 01/03/2025 12:07:27 PM PST by stylin19a ("If You Can Read This, Thank a Teacher. If You Can Read It In English, Thank a Veteran" )
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grrr....office s/b official


482 posted on 01/03/2025 12:27:53 PM PST by stylin19a ("If You Can Read This, Thank a Teacher. If You Can Read It In English, Thank a Veteran" )
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why is english an office national language of India and not the U.S.?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India

Snip....."Article 343 of the Constitution of India stated that the official language of the Union is Hindi in Devanagari script, with official use of English to continue for 15 years from 1947. In 1963, a constitutional amendment, The Official Languages Act, allowed for the continuation of English alongside Hindi in the Indian government indefinitely until legislation decides to change it." snip..."Despite some misconceptions, Hindi is not the national language of India; the Constitution of India does not give any language the status of national language.[15][16]"

According to the Census of India of 2001, India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages. However, figures from other sources vary, primarily due to differences in the definition of the terms "language" and "dialect". The 2001 Census recorded 30 languages which were spoken by more than a million native speakers and 122 which were spoken by more than 10,000 people.[18] Three contact languages have played an important role in the history of India in chronological order: Sanskrit,[19] Persian[20] and English.[21] Persian was the court language during the Indo-Muslim period in India and reigned as an administrative language for several centuries until the era of British colonisation.[22] English continues to be an important language in India. It is used in higher education and in some areas of the Indian government.

"DS Elites" want to remove English as a Unifying factor for this country, they want to balkanize the U.S. so that it is easier to play groups off against one another. My Thought.

580 posted on 01/03/2025 7:42:08 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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***why is english an office national language of India and not the U.S.?

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Because that’s where the Customer Service call centers are...

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609 posted on 01/04/2025 12:27:40 AM PST by Porkchop
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