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The controversy over the Hindi and English as the official language started when our Constitution made the provision that the of English for official purposes was to stop in 1965.
Thus, the flexibility shown by Indian political leaders helped our country to avoid the situation like civil war that Sri Lanka finds itself in. (i) However, many non-Hindi speaking slates demanded that the use of English should continue. In Tamil Nadu, this movement took a violent form. (ii) So the central government responded by agreeing to continue the use of English along with Hindi for official purposes.
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