BRIDGING THE FRAMER’S INTENT AND CONTEMPORARY REALITY: SOCIO-LEGAL CHALLENGES TO LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY IN INDIA

AUTHOR – HIMANSHI MALWA* & MR.ANUJ SETHI**

* STUDENT AT LAW COLLEGE DEHRADUN, UTTARANCHAL UNIVERSITY

** ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT LAW COLLEGE DEHRADUN, UTTARANCHAL UNIVERSITY

BEST CITATION – HIMANSHI MALWA & MR.ANUJ SETHI, BRIDGING THE FRAMER’S INTENT AND CONTEMPORARY REALITY: SOCIO-LEGAL CHALLENGES TO LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY IN INDIA, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 6 (8) OF 2026, PG. 520-526, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344. DOI – https://doi.org/10.65393/IJLRV6I853

ABSTRACT

The framers of the Indian Constitution were firm believer of the point that the linguistic diversity of India is a strength and has the potential to become the basis of national unity. Therefore, they rejected the contention of adopting a single as the official language of the nation and opted for pluralistic language system and made special provision under the Article 29 and 30 for the protection of the minority to preserve their language, culture and script. This paper explores vision of the framers of the constitution and the real ground implementation of that vision and analyse the existing gaps between them through social-legal perspective. Constituent Assembly Debates, important court judgments and recent cases of linguistic discrimination have been considered to understand the intension of the framers and the scale up to which they have been implemented. This paper also showcases the judicial perspective towards the linguistic discrimination and the steps taken for its protection and how the weak implementation is further creating disturbance in the society and how education, jobs and public life is being hampered. This paper aims to give certain practical recommendations which can reaffirm the Constitutional vision of “Unity in Diversity” and overcome the challenges faced by the society.

Keywords– Linguistic diversity, Framer’s Intent, Article 29 and 30, Socio-legal issue