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This is a significant incident in the history of India. This page needs a lot of expansion.Doctor Bruno 18:02, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Not a history but a happening

Anti Hindi feelings are present in a sizable section of Tamils in India today. The central government is accused of spreading a false propaganda that learning Hindi will bring prosperity to Tamils..

Hindi is not being imposed on the people. Now that India is more integrated, Hindi is naturally making inroads into other parts of India. However, we must understand that in cities and towns of Tamil Nadu, (apart from Chennai), even today it is literally impossible to transact any business without the knowledge of Tamil.. English is not of great help..

The situation is different in the rest of the country, especially the urban areas.. A knowledge of Hindi and/or English is quite sufficient .. In fact, languages such as Gujarati and Assamese are beginning to decline. And on my last trip to Madurai, Tamil Nadu, I encountered more Hindi speakers. Also, English is proving to be the "ultimate language" of India , contrary to what our freedom fighters had envisioned..

NPOV

The article as it stands is written almost entirely from the Tamil POV ("Indian security forces massed into Tamil Nadu and their ruthless shootings of unarmed demonstrators" etc), and is very short on what these "impositions" and their rationale actually were. Jpatokal 14:24, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

This article ONLY focuses on the Tamil perspective of Hindi-Agitations. While it is true that violent agitations primarily occurred in Tamil Nadu only, there are many other states, including, but not limited to, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal, the Northeastern states, and many others had mild "agitations" against Hindi imposition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.188.87.114 (talk) 03:46, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Other Indo-Aryan languages?

Would the recent Marathi riots of Maharashtra incited by Raj Thackeray of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena fall under this article or should there be a wider resistance to Hindi category?

Hcobb (talk) 13:58, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I support adding that too into this article as its almost the same kind of agitation

A Soosai Prakash (talk) 10:05, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

And now there's more of the same. It makes me wonder sometime why Bollywood doesn't move out of state or just switch to English.

http://entertainment.oneindia.in/bollywood/news/2008/jaya-raj-thackeray-apology-090908.html

Or perhaps this just needs to go in the MNS article as it doesn't seem to have legs outside a tiny fringe?

Hcobb (talk) 18:13, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Citations Needed

Is there a reference for this sentence under "Post Independence" section?? If not it should be removed. I'm not sure about the meaning of "Indian security forces", does it mean the Army, CRPF or TN police?

"In addition to the killings by Indian security forces", Chinnaswamy, Muthu, Ranganathan, Sarangapani, Sivalingam and Veerappan poured petrol (gasoline) over their bodies and burned themselves to death in protest of Hindi imposition.

(68.162.44.102 (talk) 16:21, 28 July 2008 (UTC))

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