INDIADiversity of languages: There are some 20 linguistic families from which are derived nearly 150 languages.The major of these languages have each their own distinctive script. Sanskrit, the language of the Aryans (deadlanguage today), is the parent of the modern languages of Northern and Central India. The Sanskrit alphabetcontains 13 vowels and 35 consonants. The vowels are divided into simple vowels and diphtongs. Each simplevowel, except 1, has a short and a long form. The consonants are classified into 5 categories, each categorycontains 7 consonants: 5 mutes, 1 semi-vowel, 1 sibilant.There are 2 kinds of Hindustani: 1° Hindi, spoken by educated Hindus, a pure Aryan language descended fromSanskrit. 2° Urdu, spoken by educated Moslems, mixture of Hindi and Persian. Hindi is written in Hindicharacters from left to right; Urdu in Arabic characters from right to left. Hindustani is spoken in the centre(Madhya Pradesh), united provinces (Uttar Pradesh) and upper portion of Southern India and Rajputana(Madhya Bharat).In the South, the language group is Dravidian, comprising Tamil (26,5 m.), Telugu (33), Canarese (14,5),Malayalam (13,5). On the West Coast Goanese, mixture of Hindi and Portugese. In the state of Bombay wehave some mixtures: the Parsis brought Persian with them and mixed it up with Gujerati; also Gujerati (16,3),Mahrathi (27) and Sindhi, Across the border, from Sukkor through the Bolan pass at Quetta and Baluchistan:Baluchi, Afghan language mixed with Arabic. On the North West, the Pathan tribes speak Pushtu, mixture ofPersian, Arabic and Urdu, written in Arabic characters. Kashmir has Kashmiri. Crossing the Punjab, we findseveral specimens of Punjabi, written in Hindi characters. In Bengal Bengali (25) written in Hindi characterswith variations. In Orissa Oriya (13,2); in Assam Assamese (5); the Gurkha speak Nepalese; Thibetan andButhian.Gandhi spoke Gujerati, Nehru's mother-tongue was Urdu.Religions: Hinduism: Just as among Protestants, lack of aut...