On The Indian Language Policy Evolution

Language is regarded as a means of communication,It is the symbol of our identity and provides us with the tools to acquire most of our knowledge.It constructs our conceptual world in a variety of complex ways that it is hard to imagine our society without knowledge of language.As one of the markers of group identity division,language rights have increasingly become a prominent topic of concern for politicians and scholars in many fields in modern countries with multi-ethnic and multi-ethnic symbiosis.The attitude of the government towards language policy is also increasingly valued and cautious,and the formulation and implementation of language policy,the government usually need to take into account the historical,cultural,economic,political and relationship balance between various groups of the country.The complexity of Indian history,culture and language is quite typical all over the world.By sorting out the development of language in India from the colonial period to the formulation,exploration,adjustment of language policy in the complex situation after the founding of the People’s Republic of India,this paper has been adapting language policies to the development of the country.To show how India faced the residual language after colonial rule,it is necessary to highlight the status of Hindi as the official language and consider the development of many languages in India.It can be said that the language policy from India can show the development of the whole country’s history,society,politics,national relations and other fields.As one of the ancient civilizations of the world,India has a splendid ancient civilization.In the history has experienced a large number of foreign culture invasion.As a result,India has long been culturally diverse and politically almost never fully unified politically.It was not until the arrival of the British colonists that the Indian elite,driven by internal and external factors,accepted Western ideas and set off a wave of nationalism.The Britain’s promotion of language has undergone a transformation from Orientalism to Westernism.Finally,English in India successfully became the symbol of the Indian elite.Of course,this also provides the conditions for India to learn Western nationalist ideas.After India’s independence,in order to consolidate national identity,the Indian government once wanted to make Hindi a national language.However,considering the interests and influence of many groups,it only used the official language in view of the interests of multiple groups.English’s official language status was replaced by Hindi after 15 years of retention.But with the outbreak of domestic language problems,the Indian government has had to continue to recognize the official language status of English.And the division of state-level administrative units in language units.The policy of education language based on the three-language program ensures the development of various levels of language,so that the language contradiction in India is basically stable.India language problem,however,is not been completely solved.The status of English in India has seriously affected the living space of other languages in India.There is still a great space for the development of national construction using Hindi as a tool.