In a major decision, the Union Cabinet on Thursday approved giving the status of "classical language" to five more languages - Marathi, Bengali, Pali, Prakrit and Assamese. As a fresh batch gets ready ...

The Infosys Prize 2025 in Humanities and Social Sciences was recently awarded to Professor Andrew Ollett, who teaches at the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of ...

In the Middle Ages (5th century BC to 12th century AD) when Sanskrit was enjoying the position of Devabhasa (language of the gods) in India, especially in northern parts, the citizens of various ...

It isn’t generally disputed that most modern Indo-Aryan languages—namely, those spoken in northern, western and eastern India—trace their origins back to Sanskrit. Sanskrit is indeed the parent of ...

Jaipur: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot has approved a proposal for the establishment of the Rajasthan Prakrit Language and Literature Academy, an official statement said on Tuesday. The academy will work ...

Professor S. Settar’s new book Prakruta Jagadvalaya is more than an important addition to repertoire of thought-provoking books on Kannada language and culture. Its value can best be indicated through ...

Prakrit, a group of Indo-Aryan languages, has garnered negligible attention. However, recently, the Union Cabinet declared it a classical language. As opposed to Sanskrit, primarily spoken by the ...

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has approved a proposal for the establishment of the Rajasthan Prakrit Language and Literature Academy, an official statement said on Tuesday. The academy will work for the ...

The academies are being set up under the administrative control of Department of Higher Education. The Bihar government has taken a significant step towards preserving and promoting ancient languages ...

Where on earth does a government recognise languages as classical? It happens only in India! But why? The plain answer is appeasing the linguistic and cultural sub-nationalities―an instance of ...