Number of official languages of India

[Roy Tsohar]

Many thanks, it is very helpful and seems to explain it.
Best regards
Roy


Quoting Allen W Thrasher <athr at LOC.GOV>:

> I think the original number of "Schedule Langugages," in the Eighth   
> Schedule of the Constitution of India, was 14.  Sindhi was added in   
> 1967, making 15.   This remained stable for a quarter-century, until  
>  1992 when Konkani, Manipuri, and Nepali were added, making 18.    
> Finally, in Bodo, Dogri, Maithili, and Santhali were added, for the   
> current total of 22.  The long period of 15 languages may have led   
> to that figure being copied after it had ceased to be accurate.
>
> Here is the Eighth Schedule, as found on a GOI site for the
> Constitution < http://lawmin.nic.in/coi/coiason29july08.pdf >.  The   
> first one or more numerals are to footnotes; the last one before the  
>  language name its ordinal number in the schedule:
>
> EIGHTH SCHEDULE
> [Articles 344 (1) and 351]
> Languages
> 1. Assamese.
> 2. Bengali.
> 1[3. Bodo.
> 4. Dogri.]
> 2[5.] Gujarati.
> 3[6.] Hindi.
> 3[7.] Kannada.
> 3[8.] Kashmiri.
> 4[3[9.] Konkani.]
> 1[10. Maithili.]
> 5[11.] Malayalam.
> 4[6[12.] Manipuri.]
> 6[13.] Marathi.
> 4[6[14.] Nepali.]
> 6[15.] Oriya.
> 6[16.] Punjabi.
> 6[17.] Sanskrit.
> 1[18. Santhali.]
> 7[8[19.] Sindhi.]
> 9[20.] Tamil.
> 9[21.] Telugu.
> 9[22.] Urdu.
>
> 1Ins. by the Constitution (Ninety-second Amendment) Act, 2003, s. 2.
> 2Entry 3 renumbered as entry 5 by s. 2, ibid.
> 3Entries 4 to 7 renumbered as entries 6 to 9 by s. 2, ibid.
> 4Ins. by the Constitution (Seventy-first Amendment) Act, 1992, s. 2.
> 5Entry 8 renumbered as entry 11 by the Constitution (Ninety-second   
> Amendment) Act,
> 2003, s. 2.
> 6Entries 9 to 14 renumbered as entries 12 to 17 by s. 2, ibid.
> 7Added by the Constitution (Twenty-first Amendment) Act, 1967, s. 2.
> 8Entry 15 renumbered as entry 19 by the Constitution (Ninety-second   
> Amendment) Act,
> 2003, s. 2.
> 9Entries 16 to 18 renumbered as entries 20 to 22 by s. 2, ibid.
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