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Critically assess the vanishing ethnic linguistic plurality of India.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Cultural Setting

International endangerment listings place 197 Indian languages at risk, the highest count for any country, graded from vulnerable through definitely and severely endangered to critically endangered.

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  • The orthodox position — plurality is genuinely vanishing
  • The evidence against — much of the vanishing is an artefact of enumeration
  • Weighing the two
  • Judgement

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