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Describe the impact of linguistic diversity on the development of various regions of India.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Cultural Setting

Medium of instruction — foundational literacy depends on a child decoding a familiar sound system; a gap between hearth language and school language turns schooling into transcription without comprehension.

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  • How language becomes a development variable
  • Regions where diversity paid a dividend
  • Peninsular south
  • Western littoral
  • The Hindi belt
  • Regions where diversity imposed a cost
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