[lg policy] bibitem: Language policy and political strategy in India

[Harold Schiffman]

Language policy and political strategy in India

David D. Laitin

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Abstract

The official language policy of India is described as a 3 ± 1 language
outcome. The central question that guides this paper is to explain
why, when Congress leaders attempted to provide for India a single
indigenous language for official communication, have they suffered
more opposition than have rulers of states that consolidated in
earlier centuries? Standard explanations for the different outcome,
relying on special attributes of Indian culture and history, are found
to be inadequate. A game theoretic analysis of political strategy
helps to highlight two variables that best explain India's language
outcome: the world historical time of state consolidation; and the
nature of politician/bureaucrat relations for postcolonial states.

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