The Rajasthani language movement has been campaigning for greater recognition for the Rajasthani language since 1947.
History
Rajasthani language movement is one of the longest continuous language movement in India without any major recognition. In 1925 local newspaper Tarun Rajasthan first demanded the recognition of Rajasthani. On 1st September 1944 Jai Narayan Vyas (former Chief Minister - Rajasthan) presented a memorandum to the Purushottam Das Tandon Committee to declare Rajasthani language as a regional language, and this movement was called a mass movement. At the same time, in the year 1944 itself, a big gathering of the All India Rajasthani Literature Conference took place in Dinajpur (Bengal). 5:45:38
And this work was entrusted to litterateur Suganesh Joshi. The movement for recognition of Rajasthani language has been going on since the time of this literary conference. This flame of movement is continuously burning due to the efforts of Rajasthani litterateurs and conscious language lovers. Yes! This movement never took the form of strike, bandh, arson or sabotage and that form was also not acceptable to the eminent persons associated with the recognition of Rajasthani language. Even if intermittently, this movement has been flowing and today it has taken significant steps towards becoming a mass movement. The result of that is that today the voice of Rajrathani recognition has started rising from every village. Every effort made in the long history of recognition of Rajasthani language is praiseworthy but the period of last 15 years has been more active. The efforts made after independence can be listed in this order: 1 Former Maharaja of Bikaner and former MP Dr. Karnisinghji made a private motion in the Lok Sabha twice on 14 March 1960 and 16 February 1968 to include Rajasthani language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. Members introduced bills. Similarly, MP Dr. Laxmimal Singhvi introduced private bills twice in the Lok Sabha in 1987 and in the Rajya Sabha in 1965. [2] Rajasthani language got the status of Academy language by Sahitya Akadegi Delhi and the first National Award was announced by Central Sahitya Akademi in 1974. This award was given on 'Baataan Ri Phulwadi' of Padmashree Vijaydan Detha, the top signature of Rajasthani story world, which was a very pleasant moment for Rajasthani lovers. Along with this, Rajasthani departments were established in Jainarayan Vyas University, Jodhpur and Mohanlal Sukha University, Udaipur. Rajasthani litterateurs started celebrating 21st February as Myadbhasha Divas, which is celebrated today by the United Nations as Mother Language Day all over the world. On 3rd year 1983, the independent academy of Rajrathani language 'Rajasthani Language, Literature and Culture Academy' was established in the state, whose headquarter was kept at Bikaner. 4. On July 22, 1992, many leaders including MP Justice Gumanmal Lodha, MP Balram Jakhar MP Nathuram Mirdha, Maharaja Gajsingh Jodhpur Onkarsingh Lakhawat Padam Mehta, Ramniwas Lakhotia Vijaydan Detha, Kalyansingh Shekhawat, MLA Jogeshwar Garg, Mrs. Suryakanta Vyas staged a sit-in at Voteclub Delhi According to the experience of the Rajasthani language and the demand for language recognition process, after this dharna, the lovers of Mayad language started putting pressure on the state and central government. 5. In 1994, the then Chief Minister of Rajasthan Mr. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Under the chairmanship of Saubhagya Singh Shekhawat, the then president of the Rajasthani Language Literature and Culture Academy, Bikaner, a five-member committee constituted the Rajasthani Language Constitutional Recognition and Upgradation Committee, which presented its report to the Chief Minister on February 23, 1995. 6. Meanwhile, a delegation presented a copy of the Rajasthani language recognition memorandum written to the Prime Minister to Chief Minister Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, which had the signatures of 104 MLAs. 7. On November 29, 2000, the Education Secretary of Rajasthan Mr. SN Thanvi called a meeting for the recognition of Rajasthani language, in which many writers and intellectuals from all over the state attended, in this meeting, it was recommended to make Rajasthani language a constitutional recognition and second language of the state. Went. 8. Rajasthani litterateur Laxmandan Kaviya 'Khen formed the All India Rajasthani Language Recognition Struggle Committee in December 2000 and convened the first conference of this committee in Nagore and started an important initiative towards making this question of Mayad language recognition a mass movement. In the Nagaur conference, the founder of the committee Mr.