Jawaharlal Nehru’s language of optimism and equality at the Madras Corporation

Aware that language was a politically sensitive issue in Tamil Nadu, the Prime Minister gave a promise in a speech in 1963 that “any idea that any one language can dominate over others or, what is called linguistic imperialism, is totally unrealistic”. He also rejected the notion that one language would hamper the growth of the other language

​Aware that language was a politically sensitive issue in Tamil Nadu, the Prime Minister gave a promise in a speech in 1963 that “any idea that any one language can dominate over others or, what is called linguistic imperialism, is totally unrealistic”. He also rejected the notion that one language would hamper the growth of the other language