Multilingual Education in India: The concept, growth and Issues. Is it Important for the growth of India? Check it out.
Multilingualism is a subset of multiculturalism. The latter is a political and societal ideology that enshrines the existence, promotion and practice of various traditions, customs and cultures in a single society, and the former deals only with languages. The Indian multicultural framework portrays the social stratification and social limitations in the Indian subcontinent, in which social classes are characterized and categorized by a huge number of genetic groups, named jatis or castes.Religiously, Hindus frame the greater part of the multicultural ambit, followed by Muslims. The populations are as follows, Hindu (80.5%), Muslim (13.4%), Christian (2.3%) and Sikh (2.1%). Further, Buddhist, Jain, Jew and Parsipopulations contribute a meager part of the Indian subcontinent. India’s states have eventually been separated and reorganized on linguistic basis. Moving on to its subset, multilingualism, the Indian subcontinent is diverse in linguistic context, with about 3000 mothe