Linguistic Chauvinism in the Indian Constitution | Prof. Kapil Kapoor |

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About the Talk:
This talk by Prof Kapil Kapoor discusses the current issues with the policies that are concerned with the Indian Languages. The source of which lies in Macaulay's one paged Education Policy/Indian Education Act of 1835 whose effect is still felt in the Constitution of India with its approach towards Education in India.
Prof Kapoor also discusses the importance of Sanskrit and the very Nationally necessary discourse of the great contribution of Tamil and Tamilians to Indian thought and culture.

Speaker:
Currently, Prof Kapoor is
Member - PM's 75th year Amrut Mahotsav Committee
Member Exec Council - NMML (Now PMML)

Member, High Level Committee, IKS, Ministry of Education

And Chairman - Editorial Committee, Indian Historical Records Committee, National Archives

Formerly Prof Kapoor was:
Chairman - IIAS
Pro VC - JNU
Chairman, MHRD, Language Expert Committee
Professor of English in JNU and where he also established the Centre for Sanskrit Studies

He is the Editor in Chief of the unique 11 volume set of The Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
And also of the Sahitya Akademi Sponsored and yet to be published - Encyclopaedia of Indian Poetics which is also a UNESCO project

0:00 Introduction
1:11 Indian Govt.'s High Powered Committee "Bharatiya Bhasha Sammiti"
2:00 Indian Census and the constantly changing number of Indian local dialects
2:45 Our Constitution makers were a product of the same Macaulay Education system who did not understand the soul and culture of Indian languages
3:48 How Macaulay's one paged Education Policy document of 1835 destroyed the extremely efficient indigenous Education system of India and it still continues till date
7:22 Constitution makers inserted the same Linguistic chauvinism as advocated by Macaulay in the Constitution of India
9:29 'One language - Hindi' issue and how language never figured in Indian polity since ancient times until Macaulay
10:55 Tamil and Tamilians unmatchable contribution to Indian culture and literature
12:40 The constant obsession with Sanskrit and Hindi by policy makers
14:30 Constant glossing over Mughals instead of Guptas, Mauryas, Cholas, Cheras, Pandyas, etc.
15:45 Every Indian language needs to be given due respect and importance
17:12 Unity of languages/Indian language family and the problem with this approach
17:41 Tamil bhakti movement and its contributions after the waning of Sanskrit stronghold in India post the beginning of invasions since 700 CE
21:20 Panini's ashtadhyayi says it is grammar of language, not a grammar of Sanskrit or any particular language
24:09 Hinduism is a 200 year old term only, it is Sanatan Dharma which is rich with culture, history, art and architecture, etc. but we keep glossing over Mughal monuments
25:05 The need to make all State languages the medium of state education
26:19 Tamil poetics is different from Sanskrit poetics
27:45 New terminology to describe languages needed instead of Indo-Arian, Indo-European, etc.
28:39 Shankar Fellowship which was started by the Madhya Pradesh government and Prof Kapoor's experience
39:55 Prof Kapoor's establishing the Sanskrit center at JNU
43:06 Prof Kapoor's childhood love of Grammar and the reason he took up Linguistics as a Professor
46:16 'English Language/PL480 Programme' started by the Govt of India in JNU in 1970's and Prof Kapoor's experience
49:41 English Language Teaching as a business in 1966 started the trend of English language imperialism in India
52:57 The 'Language laboratory' experiments on Indians and Prof Kapoor's experience in JNU
58:25 Indians believe that Language is 'cognition'
59:44 'Vyakran' parampara of Bhaarat

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