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<p align=right style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><b>
<font size="4">The Language Problem and </font></b><st1:country-region><st1:place><b>
<font size="4">India</font></b></st1:place></st1:country-region></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">ENGLISH and French are the two languages that hold and
express today the culture of humanity at its best and at its largest. They are
the two international languages <span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>recognised</span>
as such and indispensable for all international dealings: and although to be
internationally minded one would do better to possess both, still as it stands
at present, they appeal to two different groups, each :in its own way and each
has its hemisphere where it is prevalent, almost as a second mother tongue.
Geographically, America and the British Commonwealth (including India) belong
to the English sphere, while the European continent, South America and a good
half of Canada are more at home in French. In <st1:place>Asia</st1:place>, the
eastern part took more to English, while the western part (<st1:country-region><st1:place>Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region><st1:place>Syria</st1:place></st1:country-region>, even <st1:country-region><st1:place>Persia</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region><st1:place>Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>)
seem to lean more towards French.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:11.5pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Almost till the end of the last century
French was the language of culture all over <st1:place>Europe</st1:place>. It
was taught there as part of liberal education in all the countries and a
sojourn in <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>
was considered necessary to complete the course. Those who were interested in
human culture and wished to <span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>specialise</span>
in <i>belles <span class=SpellE>lettres</span></i> had to cultivate more or
less an intimate acquaintance with the Gallic Minerva. English has since risen
to eminence, due to the far-flung political and commercial net that the nation
has spread; it has become almost an indispensable instrument for communication
between races that are non-English and far from <st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Once upon a time it was said of a European that he had two countries, his own
and <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>;
today it can be said with equal or even more truth that a citizen of the modern
world has two mother tongues, his own and English.</p>

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<p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">market-place, it holds still a place of <span lang=EN-GB
style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>honour </span>in the cultural world, among the elite
and the intelligentsia. I have said French rules the continent of <st1:place>Europe</st1:place>.
Indeed even now an intellectual on <span class=GramE>the ,continent</span>
feels more at ease in French and would prefer to have the French version of a
theme or work rather than the English. Indeed we may say in fact that the two
languages appeal to two types of mentality, each expressing a
characteristically different version of the same original truth or fact or
statement. If you wish to have your ideas on a subject clear, rational and
unambiguous, you must go to French. French is the language par excellence
of law and logic. Mental presentation, as neat and transparent as possibly can
be is the special aid French language brings to you. But precisely because it
is intellectually so clear, and neat, it has often to avoid or leave out
certain shades and nuances or even themes which do not go easily into its
logical frame. English is <span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>marvellous</span>
in this respect, that being an illogical language it is more supple and pliant
and rich and through its structural ambiguities can catch and reflect or
indicate ideas and realities, rhythms and tones that are supra-rational.
French, as it has been pointed out by French writers themselves, is less rich
in synonyms than English. There each word has a very definite and limited (or
limiting) connotation, and words cannot be readily interchanged. English, on
the other hand, has a richer, almost a luxuriant vocabulary, not only in
respect of the number of words, but also in the matter of variation in the
meaning a given word conveys. Of course, <span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>double
</span>entendre or suggestiveness is a quality or capacity that all
languages that claim a status must possess; it is necessary to express
something of the human consciousness. Still, in French that quality has a
limited, if judicious and artistic application; in English it is a wild growth.</p>

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French expresses better human psychology, while meta-physical realities find a 
more congenial home in the English language. This is not to say that the English 
are born meta-physicians and that the French are in the same manner natural 
psychologists. This is merely to indicate a general trait or possible capacity 
of the respective languages. The English or the English language can hold no 
candle to the German race or the German language in the matter of metaphysical 
abstruseness. </p>

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<p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">German is rigid, ponderous, if recondite. English is
more flexible and has been used and can be used with great felicity by the
mystic and the metaphysician. The insular English with regard to his language
and letters have been more open to external influences; they have benefited by
their wide contact with other peoples and races and cultures.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:11.5pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">The stamp of mental clarity and neat
psychological or introspective analysis in the French language has been its
asset and a characteristic capacity from the time of Descartes - through <span
class=SpellE>Malebranche</span> and Voltaire and the <span class=SpellE>Encyclopaedists</span>
- right down to <span class=SpellE>Bergson</span>. The English are not by
nature meta-physicians, in spite of the <span class=SpellE>Metaphysicals</span>:
but greatness has been thrust upon them. The strain of Celtic mysticism and
contact with Indian spiritual lore have given the language a higher tension, a
deeper and longer breath, a greater expressive capacity in that direction.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:12.25pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">But French seems to have made ample
amends for this deficiency (in the matter of variety of experiences especially
in the supra-rational religions) by developing a quality which is peculiar to
its turn of psychological curiosity and secular understanding - a refined
sensibility, a subtle sensitiveness, an alert and vibrant perception that puts
it in contact with the in­ner (even though not so much the higher) almost the
hidden and occult movements of life. That is how mysticism-<span
class=SpellE>fa</span> mystique - comes by a back door as it were into the
French language.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:11.5pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">It seems natural for the English
language to dwell on such heights of spiritual or metaphysical experience as
A.E. gives us:</p>

<p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:11.5pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">A spirit of
unfettered will</p>

<p style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Through light and
darkness moving still</p>

<p style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Within the All to
find its own,</p>

<p style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">To be immortal
and alone.<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>¹</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:0;
text-indent:.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">It can dare even such mystic summits
which Sri <span class=SpellE>Aurobindo</span> discloses:</p>

<p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:0;
text-indent:.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Earth is
now girdled with trance and Heaven is put round</p>

<p style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">her for
vesture.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Wings that
are brilliant with fate sleep at Eternity's gate.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>¹</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> &quot;Endurance&quot;.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Time waits, vacant, the
Lightning that kindles, the Word that transfigures:</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Space is a stillness of God
building his earthly abode. <span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>¹</span></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-indent:.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">But French too in her own inimitable way gives us <span class=SpellE>glimpsesof</span>
a beyond and <span class=SpellE>otherwhere</span>, as in these well-known lines
of Baudelaire: </p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">II <span class=SpellE>est</span>
des <span class=SpellE>parfums</span> <span class=SpellE>frais</span> <span
class=SpellE>comme</span> des chairs d' <span class=SpellE>enfants</span>,</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span class=SpellE>Doux</span>
<span class=SpellE>comme</span> les <span class=SpellE>hautbois</span>, <span
class=SpellE>verts</span> <span class=SpellE>comme</span> les prairies,</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">- Et <span class=SpellE>d'autres</span>,
<span class=SpellE>corrompus</span>, riches et <span class=SpellE>triomphants</span>,</p>

<p style="margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span class=SpellE>Ayant</span>
<span class=SpellE>l'expansion</span> des chases infinies,<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>¹</span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">or this exquisite passage reverberating with the sense of
awe and intimacy in the presence of the infinite unknown:</p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="text-align:justify; margin-right:0in; margin-left:1in; 
margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">O Conscience
immobile et <span class=SpellE>sereine</span>, <span class=SpellE>Tu</span> <span
class=SpellE>veilles</span> aux <span class=SpellE>confins</span> <span
class=SpellE>du</span> monde <span class=SpellE>comme</span> un sphinx d' <span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>é</span>ternit<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>é</span>. Et pourtant <span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>à</span>
certains Tu livres Ton secret. lIs peuvent devenir Ton vouloir souverain, qui choisit sans pr<span style='font-family:
"Luxi Serif"'>é</span>f<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>é</span>rer,
execute sans d<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>é</span>sirer.<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>³</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:0;
text-indent:.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">In other words, we can say in a somewhat
crudely general manner, in <span class=SpellE>grosso</span> <span
class=SpellE>modo</span>, that if English soars high, French dives within;
if English is capable of scaling the heavens of the spirit, French enters as
easily into the intimacies of the soul (lime). It is these intimacies or
soul touches that form as it were the inner lining to the mental clarities that
give French its external structure; while in English as a counterpart to its
spiritual attitudes we meet on the hither side a luxuriant objectivity of sense
perception. Thus the two languages are in a way strangely complementary, and in
a perfect human culture both have to be equally attended to, given equal
importance if completeness or integrality is our aim.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0in; mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt; line-height:150%"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p style="margin:0 0in; text-indent:13.7pt; mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt; line-height:150%"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>¹</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> &quot;Trance of Waiting&quot;, Collected Poems and
Plays, Vol. II, p. 363.</span></p>

<p style="text-indent:13.7pt; margin-bottom:0;
mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>²</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> &quot;<span
style="font-size:10pt;">Correspondances&quot;.</span></span></p><span
style="font-size:10pt;">

<p style="text-indent:13.7pt; margin-bottom:0;
mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>&quot;There are
perfumes fresh like the flesh of children, sweet like the haut-boy,</span></p>

<p style="text-indent:13.7pt; margin-bottom:0;
mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>green like the
prairies Others there are corrupt, rich and triumphant</span></p>

<p style="text-indent:13.7pt; margin-bottom:0;
mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>possessing the
expansion of things infinite.&quot;</span></p>

<p style="text-indent:13.7pt; margin-bottom:0;
mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>³</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> La Mere, Prieres
et Meditations, 10 November 1914.</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:13.7pt; margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>&quot;O
serene and immobile Consciousness, Thou watchest on
the boundaries of the world like a sphinx of eternity. And yet to some Thou givest out Thy secret. They can become Thy sovereign will
which chooses without preference and executes without desire.&quot;</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:10.1pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">French and English being given the
place of <span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>honour</span>, now
the question is with regard to the vernacular of those who do not speak either
of these languages. We have to distinguish two categories of languages:
national and international. French and English being considered international
languages par excellence, the others remain as national languages, but
their importance need not be <span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>minimised</span>
thereby. First of all, along with the two major international languages, there
may be a few others that can be called secondary or subsidiary international
languages according as they grow and acquire a higher status. Thus Russian, or
an Asiatic, even an Indian language may attain that position, because of wide
extension or inherent value of popularity or for some other reason. Indeed, a
national language cultivated and enriched by its nationals can force itself on
the world's attention and fairly become a world language. <span class=SpellE>Tagore</span>
was able to give that kind of world importance to the Bengali language.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:12.25pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">It may be questioned whether too many
languages are not imposed on us in this way and whether it will not mean in the
end a Babel and inefficiency. It need not be so and it is not going to be so.
We must remember the age we are in, its composite structure, its polyphonic
nature. In the ancient and <span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>mediaeval</span>
ages, the ages of separatism and exclusiveness of clans and tribes and regions,
even in the later age of the states and nations, the individual
group-consciousness was strong and sedulously fostered. Languages and
literature grew and developed more or less independently and with equal <span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>vigour</span>, although always
through some kind of give and take. But the modern world has been made so
inextricably one, ease of communication and free interchange have obliterated
the separating boundaries, not only geographical but psychological. The modern
consciousness has so developed and is so circumstanced that one can very easily
be bi-lingual or even trilingual: indeed one has to be so, speaking and writing
with equal felicity not only one's mother tongue but one or more adopted
tongues. Modern culture means that.</p>

<p style="text-indent:12.25pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">Naturally I am referring to the educated or cultured
stratum<span
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<p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:0;
mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">of humanity, the <span class=SpellE><span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>é</span>lite. This
restriction, however, does not vitiate or nullify our position. The major part
of humanity is bound and confined to the soil where they are born and brought
up. Their needs do not go beyond the assistance of their vernacular. A liberal
education, extending even to the masses, may and does include acquaintance with
one or two foreign languages, especially in these days, but in fact it turns
out to be only a nodding acquaintance, a secondary and marginal acquisition.
When Latin was the lingua franca in Europe or Sanskrit in India, it was the <span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>é</span>lite,
the intelligentsia, the Brahmin, the clerc,
who were the trustees and guardians of the language. That position has
virtually been taken in modern times, as I have said, by English and French.</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:12.95pt; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">The cultivation of a world language
need not mean a neglect or discouragement of the national or regional language.
Between the two instead of there being a relation of competition there can be a
relation of mutual aid and helpfulness. The world language can influence the
local language in the way of its growth and development and can itself be
influenced and enriched in the process. The history of the relation of English
and the Indian languages, especially Bengali, is an instance in point.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:0;
text-indent:.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">A question has been raised with regard
to the extent of that influence, involving a very crucial problem: the problem
of Indian writers in English. <span style='font-weight:medium'>It</span><b> </b>is
said Indians have become clever writers in English because of English
domination. Now that India is free and that domination gone, the need of
English will be felt less and less and finally it may even totally disappear
from the Indian field. What has become of the Persian language in India? There
were any numbers of Indian writers in Persian but with the disappearance of the
Muslim rule the supremacy, even the influence of that imperial language has
disappeared. At the most English may remain as the necessary medium for
international affairs, cultivated, that is to say, just <span lang=EN-GB
style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>learnt</span> by a comparatively few for the
minimum business transaction. The heart of the country cannot express itself in
that foreign tongue and no literature of the Indo-<span class=SpellE>Anglian</span>
type can grow permanently here.</p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">But this
is judging the present or the future by the past. Mankind is no longer
exclusively or even mainly national in<span
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<p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%; margin-top:0">its outlook; it cannot remain so if it is to progress, to
take the next step in evolution. We say if mankind overpasses the nationalistic
stage and attains something of the international consciousness and disposition,
it would be possible and even natural for a few at least among the educated to
express themselves in and through the wider world language, not merely as an
instrument of business deal, but as a vehicle of literary and aesthetic
creation.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:12.25pt; margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">There are certain external
-social and political -circumstances in existence today and will be more and
more in evidence perhaps with the lapse of time which tend to corroborate and
strengthen that possibility. A language <span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>learnt</span> for commercial or diplomatic transaction cannot remain
limited to that function. Those who intend merely to learn may end very
probably by cultivating it. And then it has been suggested that in the march of
evolution towards world unity, there is likely to be an intermediate stage or
rung where nations with special affinities or common interests will group
together forming larger collectivities: there will be free associations of free
nations, the Commonwealth as it has been termed. If India is to link herself
specially to the English-speaking group, the English language will not cease to
be an acquaintance but continue to be or develop into a very good friend.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:12.25pt; margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">It may be argued that a foreign
language, in order that it may be the medium of literary expression even for
the few, must have some living contact with the many, the people themselves.
Some kind of atmosphere is needed where the few can breathe and live the
language they adopt. Even for an individual when he takes to a foreign tongue,
it is necessary in order to be perfectly at home and master in that language
that he should live sometime (seven years is the minimum given by a French
critic) in the country of the language adopted. In India, now that the British
are gone, how can that atmosphere or influence be maintained? English letters
may yet flourish here for a few years, because of the atmosphere created in the
past but they are sure to dwindle and fade away like flowers on a plant without
any roots in a sustaining soil. Indeed English was never a flowering from the
mother soil, it was something imposed from above, at best grafted from outside.
Circumstances have changed and we cannot hope to <span class=SpellE>eternalise</span>
it.<span
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<p style="text-align:justify; text-indent:12.25pt; margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">We repeat what we have
suggested, a national language flowers in one way, an international language
flowers in another way. The atmosphere if not the soil, will be, in the new
international consciousness, the inner life of mankind. That will become a more
and more vivid, living and concrete reality. And minds open to it, soaked in it
will find it quite natural to express themselves in a language that embodies
that spirit. In this way, even though English might have lost a good deal of
its external dominion in India, can still retain psychologically its living
reality there, in minds that form as it were the vanguard of a new
international age, with just the minimum amount of support needed from external
circumstances and these are and may be available. And it would not be
surprising, if not only English but French too in a similar way finds her
votaries from among the international set in our country.</p>

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11.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0">All this, we repeat again, need not be and will not be at the cost of
the national language or languages, rather the contrary.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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