when was hindi made national language of india
Languages with official status in India The Indian constitution, in 1950, declared Hindi in Devanagari script to be the official language of the union. Unless Parliament decided otherwise, the use of English for official purposes was to cease 15 years after the constitution came into effect, i.e., on 26 January 1965. The prospect of the changeover, however, led to much alarm in the non Hindi-speaking areas of India, especially Dravidian-speaking states whose languages were not related to Hindi at all. As a result, Parliament enacted the Official Languages Act, 1963,[8] [9][10][11][12][13] which provided for the continued use of English for official purposes along with Hindi, even after 1965.
Indian languages in Singapore Tamil is the most spoken Indian language in Singapore and the only Indian language among Singapore's four official languages, alongside Mandarin, (the language of trade) Malay (the national language) and English (the language of administration),[3] and 3.1% of Singapore residents speak Tamil at home.[4] Singapore is one of the three countries in the world to make Tamil an official language, the others being India and Sri Lanka.