Around 1000 b.c. mainland Greece entered a  dark age  of limited achievements, but not so the Ionians, who developed an outstanding civilization.
Though Greek achievement declined around 1000 b.c., achievement by the Ionians did not decline.
The national language of Hindi is spoken by less than the majority, and English, for which the government has a permanent program of modernization, is spoken by just 3 percent of the people, mostly in the largest cities.