(This is the latest edition of the Political Line newsletter curated by Varghese K. George. The Political Line newsletter is India’s political landscape explained every week. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox every Friday.)Numbers count. For a language to be named as one in the Census, it must be spoken by at least 10,000 people. If there are fewer than 10,000 people who count a particular language as their mother tongue it gets clubbed among ‘Others’ in the Census categories. Published - November 13, 2026 11:04 pm IST
Languages travel, change, and often die
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