Progress Of Indic Languages Vs English

[Guest]

Ramana, you touched upon an old debate of the Hindi literary circles of 50s. When government decided to 'officially' declare and promote Hindi as the state language of GOI - they needed to define WHAT Hindi is - since a Hindi speaker of Mewatiyan in Rajasthan would find it hard to understand, much less speak, the Hindi spoken by a native of Mithila in Northern Bihar, like wise from Himachal or Vidarbha.

So, after very interesting and much heated debates, they agreed upon a language of less 'deshaj' content and dialectic tone - called Khadi Boli. For Khadi Boli too, there were two variants - that of Delhi/Punjab/West_UP or that of Varanasi/East_UP. The latter draws from Sanskrit vocabulary as the primary source, and the former from Farsi/Urdu. For different reasons, the former was chosen.

Then a talented young poet and professor, also having clout with Nehrus was picked up as the GOI's ambassador to promote this language as the national language, and formulate govt's policies. Dr. Harivansha Rai Bachchan. However, much of the literature as well as Doordarshan's Hindi continued to be Khadi Boli of Sanskrit leanings, until recently.

Now, our 24/7's and balle-wood have supplanted the development of that true national language of indigenous origins, to replace its original and popular words by poor borrowings from English, Farsi, and Arabic. including the character of the language, the flow of words and so on.