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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Linguistic Conflicts.

  • UPSC 1988
  • Religion and Society in India

Census 2011 received 19,569 raw mother-tongue returns, rationalised into 1,369 mother tongues and finally presented as 121 languages, 22 of them in the Eighth Schedule. Conflict has never arisen from that diversity, but from decisions about which languages carry state power — in schools, courts and recruitment.

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