| Anti Hindi Movement
Use of Hindi as the official language was opposed by people and politicians of non Hindi speaking states in general and Tamilnadu in Particular. 1938 when Congress government headed by C. Rajagopalachari issued order to use Hindi as compulsory language in schools, it was vehemently opposed by people of Tamilndau, which forced the government to withdraw the order in 1940.
Post-Independence Hindi was given a special status. When the question of making Hindi as the official language of India came into the picture, people started agitating. The official language act provided for the provisions to use English for the transaction of business in Parliament, by Centre and states and for certain purposes in high courts for 15 years. Later, in 1967 there was an amendment in an act which allowed continuation of English for official purposes. However, the issue of language has not been resolved for example Tamil Nadu passed a resolution in 2006 to make Tamil the official language of Madras high court.
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