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dated May 13, 1958 : Nehru’s warning

The statement made by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru at the meeting of the All-India Congress Committee on minorities and the language problem is as timely as it is frank. It is refreshing to see him come out strongly against those who seek to impose Hindi as the official language of India and who have worked behind the scenes to make a knowledge of it compulsory for admission to Government service. Mr. Nehru has had no hesitation in revealing that this insistence on a Hindi test has strongly militated against the recruitment of non-Hindi nationals to the services though they possess all the primary qualifications for the various posts. The Prime Minister has no doubt that it is an “injustice perpetrated on them” and they cannot be expected to reach a standard of literary Hindi comparable to that possible to candidates from the Hindi-speaking areas.

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