04-17-2007, 10:51 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Hauma Hamiddha+Apr 15 2007, 05:10 AM-->QUOTE(Hauma Hamiddha @ Apr 15 2007, 05:10 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Tangentially related to the topic-- Has any one checked Savarkar's letters from Andaman on the linguistic states in India. He correctly feared that these might encourage divisive tendencies and politics. Many regionalist fighting for a prominent place for their local languages were infiltrated by the mlechCha agents in order to subvert them towards divisive politics. In TN this is very obvious but seeing what is happening in the Northeast and for that matter even Andhra and Kerala today I am sure this was more prevalent.
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Yes I read his Letters from Andaman. He was informed about the Telinga people banding together in early 1900s to ask for regional representation and he was worried that would dilute the struggle against the British. The Telugu people's grevience of which he was unaware was from political and econmic representation in Madras Presidency. Language was one way of expressing nationalism and get political rights. Telugu is the most Sanskritized South Indian language and the people have the largest of the SI population.
However there was parallel Dravidian movement in TN fed by Christian priests in Vellore and we have a thread on that in IF. This and the NE movement (again by Christian missionaries) were divisive and should not be clubbed with the Telugu movement while Savarkar does bring up the issue of Telugu people getting toghther could lead to centrifugal tendencies.
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Yes I read his Letters from Andaman. He was informed about the Telinga people banding together in early 1900s to ask for regional representation and he was worried that would dilute the struggle against the British. The Telugu people's grevience of which he was unaware was from political and econmic representation in Madras Presidency. Language was one way of expressing nationalism and get political rights. Telugu is the most Sanskritized South Indian language and the people have the largest of the SI population.
However there was parallel Dravidian movement in TN fed by Christian priests in Vellore and we have a thread on that in IF. This and the NE movement (again by Christian missionaries) were divisive and should not be clubbed with the Telugu movement while Savarkar does bring up the issue of Telugu people getting toghther could lead to centrifugal tendencies.