[lbo-talk] Triple Your Lizard

[ravi]

On Jul 22, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
> Is this mostly just out of linguistic nationalism, or do non-Hindi- 
> speakers have a real or perceived history of oppression (using the  
> word broadly so that it just means "bad stuff") from Hindi-speakers?
>

Some of it is simple: people tend to rebel if you ask them to fill out  
forms or watch TV in a language that they barely know a word of.  
Additionally, typically, apart from a few nods to southern bigwigs,  
political power tended to be concentrated in the North (where the  
capital is). The protests themselves were specifically about Hindi,  
not about northern oppression,

	--ravi


> --- On Wed, 7/22/09, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>>
>> I am not sure that was as big an issue as the use of Hindi
>> as the national language is/was to non-Hindi speakers. Back
>> in Tamil Nadu central government buildings were set on fire
>> (hard to do with concrete buildings, but still!) when Hindi
>> signboards were added to them.
>>
>>     --ravi