Expanding on my last question. You had written, > [The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh] were speaking a language constructed intentionally to remove "Persian" infl

Expanding on my last question. You had written, > [The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh] were speaking a language constructed intentionally to remove "Persian" influence, which seems on the verge of doing ethnic cleansing and I was confused, writing > I wonder about your reference to Hindi as a "constructed language" however. I didn't think it was. What are you referring to? not just because I think of Hindi as an organic language, but because what you're saying seems exactly backwards. If anything, I'd have thought (if you had BJP sympathies) that you might levy that sort of charge against the Tamil/Dravidian parties who resisted the imposition of Hindi education and official language by the Hindu nationalists: "Oh you Tamils with your exclusionary ethnostate!" It'd be a bit much, but somebody could say it. Because, let's strip euphemisms: "Persian" here means "Iranian", which is another spelling of "Aryan", i.e., the barely-prehistorical conquerors of the northern part of the subcontinent, who, very indirectly and with some strain, we might call the predecessors of today's Delhi-centered BJP. (For anyone else reading.) (If you really wanted to troll you could call them "foreign imperialists" and talk about kicking them out of India. That'd be absurd -- a bit like saying blonde Russians are really Swedes, going back to the Kievian Rus, and pointing to (blonde) Soviet Man as remaining chauvinism -- but if you wanted to turn "indigenous" politics and "decolonization" against them, you could do it. It'd be one way to make a point.) If there were a nationalist movement that would want an "Aryan-free ethnostate", it would be something like extreme Tamil nationalists, intent on bringing back Kumari Kandam from the depths, like some Nazis wanted Thule. Or are you talking not about the BJP's efforts to push Hindi, but their (more marginal) efforts to resurrect Sanskrit within the "Bharat", e.g., https://www.siasat.com/sanskrit-unifies-bharat-promote-it-rss-leaders-modi-1549306/ https://www.siasat.com/sanskrit-unifies-bharat-promote-it-rs... ? That would be more like other nationalistic language projects, like Gaelic and Hebrew. But even that is firmly within the Proto-Indo-European language family, so "Aryan". And their main goal remained "Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan" anyway, not Sanskrit. Thus, I remain confused. Maybe that was your true intention. If so, you've succeeded.