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    The anti-Hindi imposition agitation of 19371940 refers to a series of protests that happened in Madras Province of British India during 19371940. It...
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  • The anti-Hindi-imposition agitations in Tamil Nadu have been ongoing intermittently in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras State...
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  • portal Hindi–Urdu controversy Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu Anti-Hindi agitation of 1937–40 Anti-Hindi agitations of Karnataka Official website of the...
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    question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema...
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    C. N. Annadurai (category Anti-Brahminism)
    prison on several occasions; the last of which was during the Madras anti-Hindi agitation of 1965. The agitation itself helped Annadurai to gain popular...
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  • Dravida Nadu (category Anti-Brahminism)
    strengthened the anti-Brahmin sentiment. In 1937–38, Hindi and Hindustani were introduced as new subjects in the schools, when C. Rajagopalachari of Congress...
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    C. Rajagopalachari (category Indian anti-communists)
    opposed the decision of C. Rajagopalachari to make learning Hindi compulsory in schools in 1937. During the anti-Hindi agitations, Rajagopalachari was...
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    Periyar (category Anti-Brahminism)
    possibly Jews. In a rally organised on 29 December 1938 (during the Anti-Hindi agitation of 1937—40) an address from Periyar was read out that he had sent from...
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  • Hindi literature (Hindi: हिन्दी साहित्य, romanized: hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Hindi languages which have different writing systems...
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    Sahajanand Saraswati (category Hindi-language writers)
    of the chairman, Reception Committee, The All India Anti-Compromise Conference, First Session, Kisan Nagar, Ramgarh, Hazaribagh, 19 & 20 March 1940,...
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    K. A. P. Viswanatham (category Recipients of the Thiruvalluvar Award)
    of the party, a position which he continued to hold till 1940 after which C. N. Annadurai took over. He also took part in the Anti-Hindi agitation of...
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  • Justice Party (India) (category Anti-caste movements)
    of caste-based reservations, and educational and religious reform. In opposition it is remembered for participating in the anti-Hindi agitations of 1937–40...
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    Muslims could contest and vote. In the elections of 1937, Congress emerged as the largest party in seven of the 11 provinces with a clear majority in five...
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  •  47. "Who is Periyar EV Ramasamy? Dravidian movement stalwart led anti-Hindi agitation after quitting Congress". International Business Times, India Edition...
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    jailed for participating in these Anti-Hindi agitations. Two agitators Thalamuthu and Natarasan lost their lives. In 1940, the Congress ministers resigned...
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    Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (category CS1 Hindi-language sources (hi))
    leader of a large body of organisations called the Sangh Parivar (Hindi for "Sangh family"), which has developed a presence in all facets of Indian society...
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    Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance...
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    Madras anti-Hindi agitation of 1965. The government of India had for a long time made an effort to establish Hindi as the sole national language of India...
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    Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (category Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi)
    was an Indian Hindi language poet, essayist, freedom fighter, patriot and academic. He emerged as a poet of rebellion as a consequence of his nationalist...
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  • decreased until the anti-Hindi agitations, when E. V. Ramasami was elected President of the Justice Party. The Raja temporarily bowed out of politics and devoted...
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    A. T. Pannirselvam (category 1940 deaths)
    supported the Anti-Hindi agitations of 1937-40. He remained the leader of the party till 1938, when Periyar E. V. Ramasamy took over the leadership of the party...
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    K. Kamaraj (category Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu)
    with then Ministry of Finance T. T. Krishnamachari to introduce ration cards and food rationing. The food crisis, Anti-Hindi agitations and disillusionment...
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    position of rival Congress leaders from the northern states such as Uttar Pradesh, where there had been strong, sometimes violent, pro-Hindi agitations. Gandhi...
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    British Raj (redirect from Empire of India)
    The British Raj (/rɑːdʒ/ RAHJ; from Hindi rāj, 'kingdom', 'realm', 'state', or 'empire') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent;...
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    (/ˈneɪru/ NAY-roo or /ˈnɛru/ NEH-roo; Hindi: [ˈdʒəʋɑːɦəɾˈlɑːl ˈneːɦɾuː] ; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, statesman...
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    increase the production and supply of milk by creating the National Dairy Development Board. The Madras anti-Hindi agitation of 1965 occurred during Shastri's...
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    Jyoti Basu (category CS1 Hindi-language sources (hi))
    "The role of the Communists in the Anti Bengal—Bihar Merger Agitation". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 74: 921–924. ISSN 2249-1937. JSTOR 44158893...
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    Charan Singh (category Ministers of Internal Affairs of India)
    public when SSP decided to launch an agitation of Angrezi Hatao (get rid to English) and during this movement two of its ministers courted arrest. SSP withdrew...
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    Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar (category CS1 Hindi-language sources (hi))
    revoked but instead its implementation was widened. Thevar again led agitations and awareness-raising campaigns against the Act. At the time the Justice...
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    Telangana Rebellion (category Military history of Hyderabad, India)
    communist-led insurrection of peasants against the princely state of Hyderabad in the region of Telangana that escalated out of agitations in 1944–46. Hyderabad...
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