Word: gujarati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question was as complex as India's linguistic makeup. Its solution was basic to the building of a modern cohesive state out of disparate parts. The nation of Gandhi and Nehru has no majority tongue. Some 41% of its people speak Hindi. Another 14% speak Marathi, Gujarati, Kashmiri and Punjabi-all closely related to Hindi. Some 32% speak Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Oriya, Malayalam, Kannada and Assamese. The remaining 13% speak miscellaneous dialects...
...night before his death, Gandhi had recited a homely Gujarati couplet known in Porbandar (where he was born in 1869). It went...