Similarly, you may ask, what is linguistic state policy?
Linguistic States: The creation of Linguistic States was the first and a major test for democratic politics in our country. This was done to ensure that people who spoke the same language lived in the same State. Our Constitution did not give the status of national language to any one language.
Subsequently, question is, what is the meaning of language policy? Language Policy is what a government does either officially through legislation, court decisions or policy to determine how languages are used, cultivate language skills needed to meet national priorities or to establish the rights of individuals or groups to use and maintain languages.
Just so, why are the linguistic states created?
The linguistic states were created to ensure that the people who spoke the same language lived in the same state.
What was the fear in creating linguistic states?
Answer. After India's independence the main fear of forming linguistic state was that, it divides the country into various parts on the basis of language. After independence forming lingusitc straws was also a very important task for Indian democray. These lingusitc states are on the basis of language, geography, etc.