The Gujral Committee Report - Language in India

HISTORICAL HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Language is a great unifying factor. In our day-to-day dealings, we communicate through the medium of a language. It also serves as a transmission line conveying the accumulated experience, wisdom and cultural forms of a society from one point to 2.1
As a political force, it provides a link between the rulers and the ruled and acts as a means of disseminating policies and ideologies. 2.2 A multi-lingual society adopts more than one language to make inter-communication another.
not only for commercial and administrative but also for cultural purposes. Ours is a easy
of vast dimensions, with varying cultural layers and a multiplicity of languages and dialects. Historical forces have forged abiding links between divergent groups, farflung regions and widely differing languages. country
In the midst of a myriad languages and dialects, our social milieu represents a vast network of interacting forces, which have influenced our living and thinking patterns and moulded them to suit the ever-changing needs of modern society. While still retaining 2.3
linguistic identity, people in the various regions have aspired to seek integration their
the main educational, cultural and administrative stream through a Sustained and dynamic excise in evolving synthesis out of diversities. The uninterrupted creative activity of centuries in our major languages has but added charm and colour to our with
life. 2.4 In this process, they have encontered many problems of development and growth in common with sister languages and have sought to resolve them in accordance with national
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needs. An insight into the causes of the malaise, an awareness of the possibilities and a breadth of vision to foresee the future clearly are required for a comprehensive appraisal of these problems. 2.5 Many of the problems have their roots in the past while others have been generated by the quickening of the tempo of development particularly in the fields of education,
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