Perhaps it's mad but then there are a fair number of languages in used there[0] "The 2001 Census recorded 30 languages which were spoken by more than a million

Perhaps it's mad but then there are a fair number of languages in used there[0] "The 2001 Census recorded 30 languages which were spoken by more than a million native speakers and 122 which were spoken by more than 10,000 people". Perhaps having a widespread lingua franca[1] is a lesser madness after all. But I'm a brit, maybe an indian would care to opine. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India [1] yes, I know