Title: How Anti-Hindi Protests of the 1960s Created India’s Most Successful Regional Political Movement
Published on: November 11, 2024
Published in: Frontline
Excerpt:
‘The 1960s were a time of student uprisings across the world…. While all these protests made for spectacular news, and are duly commemorated every year, only a few of them resulted in a concrete political change. The anti-Hindi agitations in Tamil Nadu of the 1960s are one such exception. Led predominantly by students, the anti-Hindi agitations contributed to unseating the ruling Congress and bringing the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) to power in 1967. Ever since, only Dravidian parties have formed the government in Tamil Nadu.’
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