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AN INTRODUCTION TO INDIGENOUS KASHMIRI NUMERALS (A LINGUISTIC CONTRIBUTION TO KASHMIRI LANGUAGE DURING THE DOGRA PERIOD)

S. N. Pandita

Volume: 10 Issue: 3 2020

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Mahatma Gandhi on National Language, Script & Provincial Languages “Provincial patriotism is good where it feeds the larger stream of all-India patriotism, as the latter is good to the extent that it serves the still larger end of the universe. We need a common language not in suppression of the vernaculars, but in addition to them. If I could have my way, I would make learning of Devanagari script and Urdu script, in addition to the established provincial script, compulsory in all the provinces”. (Young India, August 27, 1925) “The languages of India have suffered impoverishment. We are too near our own times correctly to measure the disservice caused to India by this neglect of its great

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v10i03.043

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