> The politics behind promoting Hindi is a religious one. It makes convenient to promote the varna system(modern caste system). As someone with some knowledge

> The politics behind promoting Hindi is a religious one. It makes convenient to promote the varna system(modern caste system). As someone with some knowledge around this subject, this is a simplistic and inflammatory bad-faith reading of a very complex topic – how do you create a common country out of hundreds of splintered cultures, languages, and religions spoken by millions of people? The nearest parallel to how many languages India is the European Union, and I would wager that given the differing scripts and such, India's diversity of languages exceeds that of the EU's. And people have been trying to unite this complex mixture as a country since the 1700s! (thinking of the British attempts here; much earlier if you include pre-British empires). The imposition of Hindi has been the one of the (failed) ways to have such a common language. It is quite a vast topic, but one example is that Mahatma Gandhi himself started the South India Hindi Outreach Institute to promote Hindi as a means of integration between (broadly speaking) North and South India. Also, the issue of caste in India is a pretty complex one as well, but having spent some time in south India, I can confidently say that casteism is way more prevalent there than Hindi, which casts some doubts on the effectiveness of the politics you allude to (even presuming it exists). ---------------------------------------------------- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakshina_Bharat_Hindi_Prachar_Sabha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakshina_Bharat_Hindi_Prachar_...