It is also quite interesting, I think, that there is no Sanskrit version. One gets the impression that the person responsible for the plate did not give too much thought to it.
Best wishes,
Sven

Am 02.11.2018 um 21:50 schrieb Richard G. Salomon via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>:

Well, to start with, the "Russian" is merely the English transcribed into the Cyrillic alphabet -- as are the Hindi, Gujarati, and (I think) the Urdu, but not the Bangla ("ekataa muurti"), French, and Spanish. Hard to see the logic.

The selection of languages seems to have been made on the basis of some list of the most widely spoken languages in the world/in India.

Rich Salomon

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 12:52 PM Preston, Charles via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Meanwhile, Patel in an address to Congress on independent India: “Its leaders would neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place 7,000 feet above sea level.” 

Also Patel at the beginning of a speech on unity:  “You want me to talk to you in English.  I shall obey your command; but take it from me that it will not be long before you yourselves will have to speak in our national language.  If you do not do that, you will drag the country backward.”  


Oh, the irony!

-Charles

Charles S. Preston
Millsaps College


On Nov 2, 2018, at 1:52 PM, Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

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