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dated March 18, 1958: Retention of English

The West Bengal Education Minister, Rai Harendranath Chaudhuri, on March 16 expressed himself in favour of retention of English as “the language for communication between the Centre and the States or for inter-State communication.” Now that the British Government was a thing of the past “we need not have suffered so much from inferiority complex as to discard English as the medium for such communication,” he said in his address to the annual Convocation of the State-Rashtrabhasha Prachar Samiti at Raj Bhavan in Calcutta. While commending the efforts of the Samiti in spreading the knowledge of Hindi on a voluntary basis, Mr. Chaudhuri declared that if any of the languages mentioned in the schedule of India’s Constitution had the best claim to be recognised as the Union language it was Sanskrit.

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