New Delhi: There are other people who speak Tamil or Malayalam outside India as their mother tongue outside India outside India or outside Tamil Nadu or Kerala. As it can be sound, Punjabi and Gujarati migrants are still more likely to be found outside their states within India abroad. To ensure this, Punjabi has the most “scattered” linguistic communities in the country. These extremely interesting conclusions are from a paper published by Chinmay Tomme from IIM Ahmedabad. The paper underlines the need to study domestic and international migration patterns simultaneously and asks to improve the “flawed idea” of “the concept of diaspora for national borders”.
The idea of Tumbe paper, which is published in the Sociological Bulletin magazine, is to identify diasporus or migrants who cross important cultural areas. Since most internal migration in India is for marriage, or within the same culture, it is an intra-district or intra-state migration, it has used the mother tongue to identify both domestic and international migrants. Paper is essentially compared to the projections of internal and international migrants – the latter can often result in historical results than more recent migration – for major languages of India, and by expansion, in their main speaking states. The paper uses the 2001 and 2011 census data to estimate domestic migrants and various sources to estimate both major Indian languages and various sources, official and informal, international migrant.
Among its major conclusions, the most striking is the fact that Malayalam and Tamil are the only linguistic groups in India where the size of international migrant color is larger than domestic migrants. While Malayalis mostly moved to West Asia and recently to the US and Europe, Tamils have a long history of Southeast Asia, present Myanmar and recently with North America. These two linguistic groups also show migrants as part of the total population who speaks the language as a high part of the diaspora, although it is Punjabi speakers who ranks first on this count. The linguistic group of diaspora’s lowest stake with the total population is Bengali, although Tumbe suggests that West Bengal has seen a sharp increase in migration over the last two decades.
Hindi speakers, of course, is the largest absolute size in both internal and international migrants, which is the largest basis of language, even though it is the fourth lowest in the list of nine major languages (these nine are the largest of the 22 scheduled languages of India and are also studied on international migration). To ensure this, the language alone as a tracker of the migrant may be a low of migration for Hindi speakers as they mostly migrate to the same language speaking areas among other major linguistic groups, Telugu speakers show one of the highest internal migration as part of the total speakers and therefore do Punjabis and Gujaratis. In 2011, there were more than 65000 Gujarati speakers in Madurai district alone, Tomen’s paper show.
This paper also ranks the ten largest cities in India in 2001 from the part of separate linguistic migrant people. It also shows interesting trends. For example, Mumbai was the largest migrant settlement for five of the nine languages: Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Gujarati and Hindi. Marathi speakers partially returned this favor by compromising the most in Surat, Bangalore and Ahmedabad; However, he went to Delhi to some extent compared to Chennai. Among the remaining three languages, Telugu Diaspora is the largest in Bangalore, while Bengali and Punjabi speakers have their largest migrants in Delhi.
