Constituent Assembly Debates- National Language

we are wedded to the freedom of our country, to the freedom of our country from bondage and from the bondage of a foreign language. But here you say, postpone the change for fifteen years. Then I ask, when are you going to read the Vedas and the Upanishads ? When are you going, to read the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and when are you going to read your Lilavati and other mathematical works ? When are you going to read your Tantrams ? After fifteen years ? You may say so. because you people believe in the saying. "After me the deluge. Let us impose upon this country, this beloved country the English language as the official language." My friends say we cannot learn the Hindi language and much  less the numerals. Then I ask you , what is your official language. in the eyes of the  outside world ? I am not in the confidence of the Government of India, but I am  informed that when in Russia our Ambassador submitted the credentials in the English  language, that country refused to receive it. They said you must present the  credentials in your own language : and when the credentials were presented in Hindi, then they were accepted. Here is Russia which knows bow to honour a country's language