The formation of linguistic states strengthened the cause of Indian Unity
Formation of linguistic states led to many benefits including strengthening the cause of Indian unity– • Led to nurturing and promotion of the regional languages and culture, strengthening the country overall. • Led to better interaction among people of the states with their democratically elected governments without going through hassles of getting translations of sort. It didn’t, mind, stop those who wanted to, to learn other languages and go to other states. • Led to consolidation of the federal structure. People realized that it was easy and peaceful to be Hindi-speaking and Indian, Tamilspeaking and Indian, Gujarati-speaking and Indian etc. • Led to growth of English as a medium of inter-state and state-Centre communication, which would have been difficult had the states not been more or less linguistically homogenous. Absence of a united opposition (which is possible for groups of linguistic states) might have led to more pronounced superiority complex of t...