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The Indian Constitution recognizes only 22 languages. Of these only two adivasi languages, Santhali and Bodo are included in the Schedule of Languages. As per the 1991 Census there are 96 other languages having at least 10,000 speakers and 263 languages having even fewer speakers. The Non Scheduled languages being largely oral in nature have remained unknown outside their respective speech communities. […]
By providing scripts to adivasi languages of Gujarat and bringing them in print in the Dhol magazine, Bhasha has contributed to a phenomenal increase in the number of speakers of the Bhili language. During the 1991-2001 decade, the Census shows a 71.9 percent increase in Bhili speakers.
At the policy level, Prof. G. N. Devy was invited as Chair for the Committee for the Development of Non-Scheduled Languages set up by the Planning Commission which was instrumental in outlaying of significant funds for development and promotion of languages not listed in the Indian Constitution in the Eleventh Five Year Plan.
For Bhasha, language is a repository of people’s memory, knowledge, traditional wisdom, history and literature. Each language has its own unique world view. Through its publications, Bhasha has endeavored to create space and recognition for oral traditions, to break the hierarchy between the oral and the written, literature and the arts, the written and the digital, between academia and the community, the adivasi and the non-adivasi. All voices have a right to express, in a medium of their choice.
Bhasha’s publications are published under the imprint of Purva Prakash.
Source: “Purva Prakash Publication”
URL: https://www.bhasharesearch.org/purva-prakash/index
Date Visited: 29 May 2024
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