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During his tenure, the state witnessed Anti-Hindi agitations in response to the Union Government's Official Languages Act passed in 1963 which planned to introduce Hindi as compulsory language and to rejected the demands to make Tamil the medium of instruction in colleges.
चेन्नई ( तमिल: சென்னை IPA: [ˈtʃɛnnəɪ] ), भारत में बंगाल की खाड़ी के कोरोमंडल तट पर स्थित तमिलनाडु की राजधानी, भारत का चोथा बड़ा नगर तथा तीसरा ...
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Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu. Date. 11 August 1937 – present. (86 years, 9 months) Location. Present-day Tamil Nadu, India. Caused by. Various attempts by the Government of India (1947–present) and the Government of Madras (during 1937–65) to 'impose' Hindi language in the State. Goals.
Madras Bashai (Tamil: மெட்ராஸ் பாஷை, lit. 'Madras Language') was the variety of the Tamil language spoken by native people in the city of Chennai (then known as Madras) in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. [1] It was sometimes considered a pidgin, as its vocabulary was heavily influenced by Hindustani, Indian English ...
In response, from 1965 to 1967 the city saw agitation against the two-language (Hindi and local language) policy, and there was sporadic rioting. Madras witnessed further political violence due to the civil war in Sri Lanka , with 33 people killed by a bomb planted by the Tamil Eelam Army at the airport in 1984, and assassination of thirteen ...
The anti-Hindi imposition agitation of 1937–1940 refers to a series of protests that happened in Madras Province of British India during 1937–1940. It was launched in 1937 in opposition to the introduction of compulsory teaching of Hindi in the schools of the province by the Indian National Congress government led by C. Rajagopalachari ...
Dec 25, 2021 · Amarnath K. Menon. Chennai, ISSUE DATE: Jan 3, 2022 | UPDATED: Dec 26, 2021 01:46 IST. The Union government’s efforts to impose Hindi as the sole official language after 1965 met with resistance in the erstwhile Madras state, which soon snowballed into a violent agitation.
