BENGALURU - The government of India, a country that recognises 22 official languages, is making a controversial push to expand the use of Hindi in education and official communication.
The proposal to increase the official use of Hindi, spoken by 528 million people in large parts of northern and central India, has received strong pushback from leaders of states in the east and south where other languages such as Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali are spoken.
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