Constituent Assembly Debates -Historical process of assimilation.
• The Honourable Shri
K. Santhanam
•At the same time, we
should not interfere with the historical process of assimilation. We ought not to
think that for hundreds and thousands of years to come these linguistic
minorities will perpetuate themselves as they are. The historical
processes should be allowed free play. These minorities should be helped
to become assimilated with the people of the locality. They should
gradually absorb the language of the locality and become merged with the
people there. Otherwise they will be aliens, as it were, in those
provinces. Therefore, we
should not have rigid provisions by which every child is automatically
protected in what may be called his mother-tongue. On
the other hand, this process should not be sudden, it should not be
forced. Wherever there are large numbers of children, they should be
given education—primary education—in their own mother-tongue. At the same
time, they should be encouraged and
assisted to go to the ordinary schools of the provinces and to imbibe the local
tongue and get assimilated with the people.
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