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ostBody gmail-readmoreOpacity gmail-mobile-article" id="gmail-first-article" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><div class="gmail-postContent" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:700;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">New Delhi:</span> The 3-language problem, for many old-timers in TN, brings in a sense of dispiriting deja vu. For, this issue is more than 5 decades old. The country would not have had to contend with this vexatious Gordian knot today had it not been for one act of crass vengeance from the Indira Gandhi government.  </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">The talk of 3-language formula has been on in India since the early 60s. But it got more traction with the Kothari Commission ('64-'66) recommending it, among others. The Indira Gandhi government, formulating a National Policy on Education, accepted the recommendations in 1968 and went ahead and passed a Bill for the same in Parliament.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">The then 3-language plan is more or less similar to the one being suggested in the draft new education policy now.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">(The draft NEP, prepared by a panel led by eminent scientist K Kasturirangan, has put forth a plan to implement three-language formula in schools across the country. It means students in Hindi-speaking states should learn an Indian language, apart from Hindi and English and, in non-Hindi-speaking states, Hindi along with the regional language and English.)</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">The then 3-language formula kicked up a huge storm in the country, especially in South India. Tamil Nadu was in the forefront of it. In fact, it could be argued that the Dravidian party came to power in the state for the first time in 1967 based on its anti-Hindi protests. The DMK, then headed by CN Annadurai, had managed to capture the imagination of the public in the state by projecting the then ruling Congress as an agent of Hindi hegemony.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">So when in 1968, the Centre came up with the Bill for the 3-language policy, the Annadurai-led DMK government in Tamil Nadu hit the streets in massive protests, which till date are seen as a watershed event in the annals of the state history.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">The Tamil Nadu government opposed the 3-language plan as it felt that the whole thing was a barely-disguised plan to impose Hindi.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">The Annadurai government did not stop with that. In an act of bravura, it went ahead and implemented its own 2-language formula. In this, Tamil was the official language of the state and English the link language.  </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">"It was a momentous period for Tamil Nadu. The state government heroically cocked a snook at the Centre over its education (language) policy," recalls V Kathiresan, a retired state government bureaucrat.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">"It was also the period when the assembly passed the resolution for the state's present name from the previous 'Madras State.'"</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">Even as Tamil Nadu remained intransigent, New Delhi couldn't do anything because education, in the federal set up, was in the state list. Tamil Nadu was practically free to do its own thing.       </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">The Indira Gandhi government was thoroughly embarrassed. It was hoisted on its own petard by a spirited government.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">Indira Gandhi probably took this as a personal slight. You have to feel so, especially based on latter-day developments. But she knew she had to remain patient. She understood her time to strike back would come.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">It came, but by then Annadurai was long deceased. During the Emergency period in 1976, the Indira Gandhi government, unleashed a torrent of changes to ensure that the power strings are firmly tied to the apron strings of the Centre. It was the act of a dictatorial regime. But she didn't care.  </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">In a fatalistic moment for the country, her government grandiosely moved five subjects from the state list to concurrent list through the 42nd Amendment Act. Education, unfortunately, was one of them.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">This essentially meant the Centre can, if need be, supersede a State's Act (through a Central Act) in matters relating to education. From then on, things have not remained the same for the country.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">Clearly, Indira Gandhi had not forgotten the snub that she had received on education policy in the 60s.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">Her government's diabolic change has meant that the 3-language policy kite is flown from time to time by various governments. But no State government can baulk at the Centre's way firmly (like TN did in the 60s) because education is no longer under the purview of a state alone.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">No Central government can make bold to plan changes in language policy in schools had education remained just with the states.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">Indira's dangerous gambit has ensured that a ticklish and emotive problem keeps perpetuating.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px"> </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px"> </p></div><div class="gmail-article-date-div1" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;float:left;width:500px;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif"><p class="gmail-marg-b20" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px;font-family:"Fira Sans",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-date" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:5px 0px 0px 3px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:10.6px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic;color:rgb(191,197,200);float:left;width:350px">Last Updated 2:25 PM IST</span></p></div><div class="gmail-col-md-12 gmail-pad-l-0 gmail-pad-r-0" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;min-height:1px;float:left;width:500px"><div class="gmail-tag-box" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:15px 0px;border-width:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:rgb(235,235,235);border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;float:left;width:500px;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-tag-name" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><ul class="gmail-list-inline gmail-tag-ul gmail-tag-flow" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:none;height:auto"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 8px 8px 0px;padding:5px 10px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;list-style-type:disc;background-color:rgb(230,230,230);border-radius:4px"><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.1;color:inherit;font-size:16px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a title="Indira Gandhi" href="https://www.mynation.com/topic/Indira-Gandhi" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(33,38,41);text-decoration-line:none;border:0px;font-size:10px;vertical-align:baseline;display:block">Indira Gandhi</a></h3></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 8px 8px 0px;padding:5px 10px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseli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"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">Anyway, just to provide a contrast, both the UPA governments had plenty of south Indian ministers (over 20), and that of course was because the UPA had relatively more MPs from the southern states. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">The NDA can rightfully justify the meagre presence of the south as representative of the strength of its MPs from each state. How can it appoint ministers when it doesn’t have enough MPs to choose from? </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">However, politically speaking, the NDA (read: the BJP) has to find a way to grow in these parts.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:700;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Also read: <a href="https://www.mynation.com/india-news/the-new-york-times-not-happy-with-modi-s-victory-pryeus" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;color:blue;text-decoration-line:none;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline;outline:0px">New York Times not happy with Modi's victory</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">The south will be crucial for the NDA's future. The southern states are said to represent 20% of India’s geographical area and a fifth of its population. The south is decidedly ahead of other states in the Union on both the socio-economic and human development fronts. Industrial growth is also better in the south. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">But with under representation in the ministerial team, the NDA's opponents do go on the narrative that the BJP is not interested in south's development. This eventually becomes an election issue and voting is done on based on this discourse. And it comes back to hurt the NDA, as it has in this election. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">So the biggest creative challenge for the NDA now is to somehow figure out a plan to accommodate deserving names from the south so that the states get adequate footing in the council of ministers, and ensure that the south doesn't feel left out from the general scheme of things.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">Aside from blooding ministers, the NDA should also look beyond the traditional logic of extending most growth projects and developmental impetus to the areas that have voted for the ruling combine. Notwithstanding their political preferences, the states, which are critical for the country’s socio-economic growth, deserve stronger backing from the government.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">These are indeed tough tasks when narrow-minded localism at its peak. Certain political forces in Tamil Nadu and Kerala have taken vainglorious pride in not having voted for the NDA. This injects a sense of provocative chauvinism in the exchanges.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">But the onus is on the victors, in this case the NDA, to rise above piffling and puerile sentiments that are sought to be engendered by vested interests at play in such situations.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:28px">Politics can be parochial. Governance should not be.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>