West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to present Bengali the standing of a classical language because it has `certified` the standards set by the Centre.
In her letter to the PM, Banerjee introduced a analysis doc that claimed to fulfil all of the 4 standards set by the Ministry of House Affairs.
“I take this chance to current earlier than you a abstract (kindly see enclosure) of a scholarly work undertaken by us in 4 volumes, which dates the origin of `Bangla` and Bengali language to the Third-4th BCE. In sum, the analysis exhibits that our is a classical language with roots in antiquity, and we search its recognition as such,” the West Bengal CM mentioned.
She additional famous that other than being the nationwide language of a rustic (Bangladesh), an official language of our State and the second most spoken language in India, can also be the seventh most spoken language on the planet.
“The Bengali individuals have a wealthy heritage and tradition courting again to pre-historic occasions. There had at all times been claims in regards to the antiquity of the Bengali language, however concrete analysis was not current to scientifically substantiate the declare. Now, I’m completely satisfied to current concrete evidence-based analysis to show that Bengali as a language existed, even in writing, as early as, Third-4th BCE,” the letter reads.
She additional expressed her confidence that the PM Modi would admire the scholarly work introduced by the West Bengal authorities and be certain that Bengali will get its due recognition accordingly.
At current, solely six languages benefit from the `classical` standing: they embrace all of the south Indian languages — Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam — and Sanskrit and Odia. Tamil was the primary to be accorded the standing in 2004, following a long-standing demand by the Dravidian events, and Odia was included within the checklist in 2014.
As per the Centre`s pointers, a language should meet some necessities to be declared as `classical`. They embrace the excessive antiquity of its early texts/recorded historical past over 1500-2000 years; a physique of historic literature/texts, which is taken into account a beneficial heritage by generations of audio system; a literary custom that`s unique and never borrowed from one other speech group; and being distinct from fashionable, with out discontinuity between the classical language and its later kinds or its offshoots.
Banerjee additionally mentioned that Bengali`s classical standing is supported by its wealthy, historic evolution encompassing each oral and written traditions.
She additional claimed that proof from archaeological findings, inscriptions, references in historic Sanskrit and Pali texts, and a considerable physique of pre-seventh-century Bengali literature underpins its classical heritage.
“Furthermore, concrete proof of written Bengali courting again to the Third-4th century BCE additional testifies to its historic origins and growth, aligning it with the standards established for recognizing Classical Languages in India,” she mentioned.
As per the CM, the analysis introduced by her authorities earlier than the Centre exhibits that Bengali retains its basic syntactic construction in addition to its distinct morphological and phonological patterns, all through its course of evolution at the very least from the Third BCE.
“I might be grateful for those who kindly subject needed directions to the Ministry of House Affairs in order that the declare of Bengali language as a Classical Language is accepted on the earliest,” she added.
The second chapter of the analysis completed by West Bengal authorities seems into the evidences of earliest settlements in Bengal proper from the pre-literate previous (pre-Fifth to Third century BCE) to be able to set up the ancestry of the speech-community known as the Bengali.
It additionally says that the obtainable archaeological and historic evidences which bear testimony to the cultural illustration of stone instruments unfold throughout the archaeological time durations of Decrease, Center and Higher Palaeolithic ages and thereafter, conclusively set up the settlement of individuals within the territory of what’s recognized right this moment as West Bengal.
The third chapter clearly establishes the presence of a group known as the Bengali at completely different geographical websites of present-day Bengal from pre-historic to the historic occasions via archaeological and historic proof.
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