Jawaharlal Nehru: "there is very much a tone of the Hindi speaking area being the centre of things in India, the centre of gravity, and others being just the fringes of India"

Nehru’s warning to the constituent assembly may well be recalled even today.In “some speeches I have listened (to) here," he said, “there is very much a tone of the Hindi speaking area being the centre of things in India, the centre of gravity, and others being just the fringes of India."

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