{"id":51415,"date":"2022-12-25T20:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/25\/threat-unity-anger-over-push-make-hindi-national-language-of-india"},"modified":"2022-12-25T20:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T11:00:04","slug":"a-threat-to-unity-anger-over-push-to-make-hindi-national-language-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51415","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A threat to unity\u2019: anger over push to make Hindi national language of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling BJP accused of agenda of \u2018Hindi imposition\u2019 in a country with more than 700 languages<\/p>\n<p>Tensions are rising in India over prime minister Narendra Modi\u2019s push to make Hindi the country\u2019s dominant language.<\/p>\n<p>Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janaya party (BJP) government has been accused of an agenda of \u201cHindi imposition\u201d and \u201cHindi imperialism\u201d and non-Hindi speaking states in south and east India have been fighting back.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/25\/threat-unity-anger-over-push-make-hindi-national-language-of-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling BJP accused of agenda of \u2018Hindi imposition\u2019 in a country with more than 700 languagesTensions are rising in India over prime minister Narendra Modi\u2019s push to make Hindi the country\u2019s dominant language.Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janaya party (BJP) governme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51416,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51415\/revisions\/51416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}