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Asani teaches a popular Core course, "The Religion and Culture of Islam," and offers instruction in Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Sindhi, and Urdu--the third most common language in the world. In addition, Asani teaches Swahili, the only sub-Saharan African language offered at Harvard...

Author: By Beong-soo Kim, | Title: South Asian Instruction May Be Cut | 2/7/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Out of Babel | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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