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Word: tamil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...

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

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