27-669: 18°57′44.82″N 72°48′34.93″E / 18.9624500°N 72.8097028°E / 18.9624500; 72.8097028 Gowalia Tank Maidan , officially renamed August Kranti Maidan , is a park in Grant Road West, in South Mumbai , in which Mahatma Gandhi issued the Quit India speech on 8 August 1942. It decreed that unless the British left India immediately, mass agitations would take place. On August 7, 1942,
54-629: A new English-influenced variant known as Hinglish which is spoken more in urban areas. On a subregional level, Telugu was a language of high culture in South India in precolonial times, while in modern times, Punjabi and Bengali function as major transnational languages connecting the northwestern and eastern regions of India to Pakistan and Bangladesh respectively (see also Punjabiyat ). The official languages of Afghanistan are Pashto and Dari (Farsi), both of which are Iranic languages . Dari, an Afghan standardised register of
81-535: Is Proto-Indo-European * médʰyos - compare Avestan [maiδya] Error: {{Lang}}: Non-latn text/Latn script subtag mismatch ( help ) , Sanskrit मध्य ( madhya ) and Latin medius . Various versions include maydan , midan , meydan , majdan , mayadeen and maydān . It also means field (मैदान) in Hindi. It became a loanword in other South Asian languages to give similar means, such as in Tamil in which
108-527: Is considered as the religious language, and English is medium of instruction for education and international purposes such as tourism. Most of the languages of Nepal either fall under Indo-Aryan languages or Sino-Tibetan languages . The official language of the country is Nepali , earlier known as Gorkhali in the Kingdom of Nepal , which is part of the Indo-Aryan group and is the spoken by majority of
135-627: Is frequented by senior citizens and one ground is used by the Fellowship School. The last park area houses the Smarak or martyr monument which is a white marble tower that cradles a pink lotus atop it. A central road cuts through the maidan grounds and connects the August Kranti Road with Hughes Road. The ground connects Tejpal Road and Laburnum Road, Alexandra Road and August Kranti Road. The closest suburban railway station on
162-511: The Indo-Aryan , Dravidian and Munda language groups are predominantly distributed across the Indian subcontinent . The subcontinent is also home to a few language isolates , like Burushaski , Kusunda , Nihali , and Vedda . Areally , the influence of the languages extend beyond the subcontinent into other neighbouring Southern Asian as well as East and Southeast Asian regions, and
189-605: The Indus River approximately dividing the families). Other language families in Pakistan include Dravidian ( Brahui spoken in Central Balochistan ), Sino-Tibetan languages such as Balti and Purgi spoken in the north-east (In Baltistan region of Pakistan), Nuristani languages such as Kamkata-vari spoken in the north-west (In chitral region of Pakistan), Language Isolate Burushaski spoken in
216-676: The Persian language , is considered the lingua franca of Afghanistan and used to write Afghan literature. Tajik is spoken by people closer to Tajikistan , although officially, is regarded to be the same as Dari. Pashto is widely spoken by the Pashtun people, who mainly reside towards the south of Afghanistan on the Pakistani-Afghan border. A few Turkic languages , like Uzbek and Turkmen , are spoken near regions closer to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan . Standard Bengali based on
243-644: The Rarhi dialect is the national language of Bangladesh. The majority of Bangladeshis speak an eastern variant of Bengali. Other native languages of Bangladesh include Sylheti , Rangpuri and Chittagonian , while some ethnic minority groups also speak Tibeto-Burman , Dravidian and Austro-Asiatic languages. Dzongkha is the national language of the Kingdom of Bhutan . Other languages spoken include Brokpa , Dzala , Chali Chocangacakha , Dakpa language , Khengkha language , Nepali language , Gongduk , Nyenkha , Lhokpu , Takpa and Tshangla . Almost all
270-616: The Western Railway line is Grant Road . The August Kranti Rajdhani Express , connecting Mumbai to New Delhi, was named after this maidan. Maidan Maidan is an originally Persian word for a town square or public gathering place (Persian: میدان ), adopted by various other languages: Urdu میدان ( maidān ); Arabic مَيْدَان ( maydān ); Turkish meydan ; Georgian მოედანი ( moedani ); Bangla ময়দান, meaning field, and Crimean Tatar , from which Ukrainian also borrowed maidan . Its ultimate source
297-753: The All India Congress Committee organized its session under the Presidentship of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad , which continued past-midnight into the next day. The venue was the Gowalia Tank Maidan, which was located 250 metres away from Goculdas Tejpal House, the place where the Indian National Congress was established in December 1885. The next day (August 8. 1942), the call for "Quit India Movement"
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#1732772770709324-558: The British refused to grant independence till the Second World War (1939 to 1945) was over. The Gowalia Tank was initially used to bathe cows. Go - Walia comes from the marathi/Gujarati word Gaie (cow) Wala (owner of the cattle). The cattle owners would bring the cows to be bathed in the waters of the tank. The Maidan that exists over there presently was built over the tank, which still exists underground. Gowalia Tank
351-522: The Constitution ". Scheduled languages spoken by less than 1% of Indians are Santali (0.64%), Meitei (Manipuri) (0.14%), Bodo (0.13%), Dogri (0.01%, spoken in Jammu and Kashmir ). The largest language that is not "scheduled" is Bhili (0.95%), followed by Gondi (0.27%), Tulu (0.17%) and Kurukh (0.099%) Divehi is national language of Maldives , spoken by 95% of the population. Arabic
378-561: The Indian Republic. Hindustani is the most widespread language of India. The Indian census takes the widest possible definition of "Hindi" as the broad variety of the Hindi languages . The native speakers of Hindi so defined account for 39% of Indians. Bengali is the second most spoken language of South Asia, found in both Bangladesh and Indian states of West Bengal , Tripura and Assam . The International Mother Language Day
405-628: The colonial era onwards, English became a lingua franca to some extent, aiding those who participated in the Indian independence movement for example. In contemporary times, English is considered the international lingua franca of the South Asian countries . Since the colonial era, the South Asian languages have absorbed significant influences from the English language, with the most-spoken South Asian language Hindustani also acquiring
432-561: The countries of Afghanistan , Bangladesh , Bhutan , India , Maldives , Nepal , Pakistan , and Sri Lanka . It is home to the fourth most spoken language in the world, Hindi–Urdu ; and the sixth most spoken language, Bengali . Languages like Bengali , Tamil and Nepali have official/national status in more than one country of this region. The languages in the region mostly comprise Indo-Iranic and Dravidian languages, and further members of other language families like Austroasiatic , and Tibeto-Burman languages. Geolinguistically ,
459-518: The extended linguistic area is known as Indosphere . More precisely, the sprachbund of Indic languages and other geopolitically-neighboring languages is known as South Asian languages (which additionally includes Eastern-Iranic and Nuristani languages, as well as Central - and Western - Tibeto-Burman linkages ). The term Indic languages is also used to refer to these languages, though it may be narrowed to refer only to Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages. The Iranian Plateau located west to
486-407: The hilly and mountainous regions. Pakistan is a linguistically diverse country; it has many dozens of languages spoken as first languages. The major languages of Pakistan broadly fall under the category Indo-Iranian languages , with western regions of Pakistan (close to Iran and Afghanistan) speaking Iranic languages , and eastern regions (close to India) speaking Indo-Aryan languages (with
513-769: The languages of Bhutan are from the Tibetic family (except Nepali , an Indo-Aryan language). Most languages spoken in the Republic of India belong either to the Indo-Aryan ( c. 74% ), the Dravidian (c. 24%), the Austroasiatic ( Munda ) (c. 1.2%), or the Tibeto-Burman (c. 0.6%) families, with some languages of the Himalayas still unclassified. The SIL Ethnologue lists 461 living languages for
540-737: The north (In Gilgit Division ), Turkic languages are also spoken in Pakistan, by Kyrgyz migrant families in the North and Uzbeks and Turkmen in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and by Refugees from Afghanistan and China. The national uniting medium of Pakistan is Urdu , a persianised register of the Hindustani language . The major native languages of Pakistan are Punjabi , Saraiki , Sindhi , Baluchi and Pashto , while more than 70 other languages like Shina , Balti , Gujarati , Bengali etc. are also spoken. Sinhala and Tamil are
567-509: The population. The Indo-Aryan languages spoken in Nepal include Maithili language , Bhojpuri language and Tharu language which constitutes majority of the speakers in southern Nepal in the Terai region. The Sino-Tibetan languages includes Tamang , Newari , Magar language , Gurung language , Kiranti languages and Sherpa language and are often spoken in central and northern Nepal in
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#1732772770709594-702: The regions of the Himalayan and Indo-Burman Ranges , predominantly on the Tibetan Plateau and Burma . Andamanese languages are spoken on the Andaman Islands . Historically, Sanskrit was the lingua franca of South Asia. In the Indo-Muslim period , Persian became a connecting language throughout much of India and the Persianate world in general, influencing local languages . From
621-563: The subcontinent is home to Iranic languages , beginning with Pashto of Pashtunistan , Dari , spoken in Afghanistan and Balochi of Balochistan in the eastern-side of the plateau. Kafiri languages are spoken in pockets at the northern intersection of the plateau and the subcontinent. Tibeto-Burman languages of the Trans-Himalayan family and Khasi–Palaungic languages of the Austroasiatic family are spoken in and beyond
648-611: The word is maidhanam . The broad geographical footprint of the use of Maidan in toponymy , from Central Europe to South-East Asia, is a reflection of the Turkish rule in these areas. Towns and villages in Iran: Poland took up the word majdan from its numerous exchanges with the Ottoman and other Persianate-influenced cultures. South Asian languages South Asia is home to several hundred languages, spanning
675-497: Was also a very prominent tram terminus. Trams would start and finish there and one could travel to the Prince of Wales Museum in one anna (six paise). The Maidan is now a popular playground. Cricket is the popular game although the monsoon season is primarily for football and volleyball. The ground has been split into 5 smaller grounds. The largest one is the playground, with one playground for children, one garden for promenades which
702-460: Was created by UNESCO to commemorate the Bengali language. Other notable languages include Odia , Telugu , Punjabi , Marathi , Tamil , Urdu , Sindhi , Kannada , Pashto , Malayalam , Maithili , Meitei (Manipuri) , Konkani , and Tulu . Thirteen languages account for more than 1% of Indian population each, and between themselves for over 95%; all of them are the " scheduled languages of
729-413: Was given, with the mantra of "do or die." In the words of Gandhi "Here is a mantra, a short one, that I give you. You may imprint it on your hearts and let every breath of yours give expression to it. The mantra is: "Do or Die". We shall either free India or die in the attempt; we shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery". The call mobilised the citizens to a huge Civil Disobedience movement as
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