An Analysis of Hindi Promotion Policy of the Modi Administration and its Implications
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This article seeks to bring scholarly attention to a recent change in India’s language policy. In doing so, it analyzes the Narendra Modi administration’s Hindi promotional policy and its implications. Since the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP)-led government came into the power in 2014, the Indian government has adopted a policy to promote the Hindi language, which can be conceptualized in four levels: 1) Rhetorical promotion of Hindi by Prime Minister Modi and his ministers, 2) Action-oriented push towards the implementation of several policy initiatives, 3) Expanding the geographic reach from the Hindi Heartland to other non-Hindi speaking states, and 4) Government-led global push for the propagation of Hindi worldwide. This policy shift raises the question of, what factors account for the current BJP government’s inclination to promote the Hindi language? This paper will answer this question by exclusively focusing on two crucial imperatives: Ideological Imperative and Electoral Imperative. This paper argues that the ruling party's ideology in promoting Hindi vis-à-vis other languages, combined with the electoral considerations are the major factors behind the current administration’s promotion of Hindi. This paper also analyses the implications of this policy as well as the difficulties of the Modi government in promoting the Hindi language, including the opposition faced and possibility of reviving Anti-Hindi Agitation in non-Hindi speaking states.
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This article seeks to bring scholarly attention to a recent change in India’s language policy. In doing so, it analyzes the Narendra Modi administration’s Hindi promotional policy and its implications. Since the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP)-led government came into the power in 2014, the Indian government has adopted a policy to promote the Hindi language, which can be conceptualized in four levels: 1) Rhetorical promotion of Hindi by Prime Minister Modi and his ministers, 2) Action-oriented push towards the implementation of several policy initiatives, 3) Expanding the geographic reach from the Hindi Heartland to other non-Hindi speaking states, and 4) Government-led global push for the propagation of Hindi worldwide. This policy shift raises the question of, what factors account for the current BJP government’s inclination to promote the Hindi language? This paper will answer this question by exclusively focusing on two crucial imperatives: Ideological Imperative and Electoral Imperative. This paper argues that the ruling party's ideology in promoting Hindi vis-à-vis other languages, combined with the electoral considerations are the major factors behind the current administration’s promotion of Hindi. This paper also analyses the implications of this policy as well as the difficulties of the Modi government in promoting the Hindi language, including the opposition faced and possibility of reviving Anti-Hindi Agitation in non-Hindi speaking states.
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