A Textbook Case of English Hinglish: NCERT Gives Hindi Titles to English-Medium Books
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 13 April 2025 | The Telegraph
The NCERT has given Hindi titles to many of its new English-medium textbooks, including books on the study of the English language, attracting charges of promoting “Hindi colonialism”.
The controversy comes at a time when the Tamil Nadu government is battling the Centre’s three-language policy for schools, calling it an underhand attempt to impose Hindi on non-Hindi-speaking states.
The NCERT has given Hindi titles to many of its new English-medium textbooks, including books on the study of the English language, attracting charges of promoting “Hindi colonialism”.
The controversy comes at a time when the Tamil Nadu government is battling the Centre’s three-language policy for schools, calling it an underhand attempt to impose Hindi on non-Hindi-speaking states.
So far, the NCERT’s language studies books always carried titles in the same language….