Why Indian school education in Hindi is better

The Hindi language - offshoot of the Devanagari script - has for long been sidelined in India with primary importance being given to the English Language. This decision, had not been taken by our founding fathers, nor by any of our Presidents or Prime Ministers, but by a British historian - Thomas Macaulay - in the past days of 1835. The point he proposed was that Indian languages had "neither literary nor scientific information" and were "so poor and rude that, until they are (were) enriched from some other quarter, it will not be easy to translate any valuable work into them." Since I know neither Sanskrit nor Arabic (the two options he rejected), I am not a person who can comment upon the validity of his statement, but having a mother-tongue knowledge of Hindi, I feel that if the Indian education system reverts to making Hindi as the primary language and English as secondary, I feel the Indians will be done greater good and will produce more advanced works on science, literature as they had been doing in the past ages. Here are some of the reasons I feel why:

Hindi is a scientific language

By saying so, I do not mean that Hindi is built especially for scientific use! I instead mean to highlight the striking difference between the English and Hindi language - which shows that Hindi is easy to learn, read and write. In Hindi, each consonant or vowel has a distinct sound, and you speak what you write. This means that it doesn't matter whether some consonant X is placed at the start/middle/end of the word or before/after another letter, the way you speak it always remains the same.

However, in English language, the story is altogether different. First of all, English has a lack of sounds and multiple Hindi sounds have no corresponding letter in English! Secondly, it is not a scientific language. Just say "Put" and "But" aloud. Did you notice that in "Put", "u" retains its natural sound while in "but" it sounds like consonant "a", even though both words have similar structure and length! Moreover, in the word "knife", "k" is completely ignored in the speech! Such minute peculiarities are sprinkled in excess throughout the English language, making it much more difficult to comprehend as compared to Hindi.

Hindi words are easier to understand

As compared to English, Hindi has more of words which are not singleton but joined using multiple root words, forming what is called a compound word. While you may argue that this is also true for many English words (like polygamy, residence), the fact is that the root word is mostly Latin/Greek than English itself. So, you cannot understand the word even though you know it's a compound word!

In Hindi instead, the root words are in Hindi itself. So, हिमालय has two root words - हिम (him) and आलय (alaya) - which mean "snow" and "residence" respectively. So, you can easily guess the meaning of the word, even though you might not have heard it before, i.e., the "residence/abode of snow"

This is specially true for scientific terms in Hindi. If you have never heard the word "catalyst", you might never be able to guess its use in Chemistry. But, if you read its Hindi equivalent, it reads: उत्प्रेरक (utpreprak). उत्  (ut) means forward/advance and प्रेरक (preprak) means a motivator/someone who can influence you. So, now you are in a position to say at least something about it - that it is a "forward influencing substance". This, as I said before, is true for an overwhelming majority of Hindi words, as opposed to English.

Hindi literature collection is diverse

Hindi literature collection since the Vedic ages is, in my opinion, much more diverse than the likes/dislikes of the entire human population on this Earth! Being able to comprehend the language, I am able to taste the literary/scientific excellence of the sages and scientists of the past. Please do not take my assertion as an evidence of my undermining the excellence of foreign writers. I have read the works of many writers, many of which I found wonderful as well. But, being able to read the works of the past Indian people enables me and would enable the Indian population to connect with the past more - and therefore - take pride in their own Indian civilization. These days, most of the youth is moving away from Indian culture and adopting foreign practices. While globalization is important, blatantly ignoring and forgetting the greatness of one's own culture is unacceptable in the least.

Therefore, when youth will understand Hindi as they truly should, they will surely be able to witness 

the wisdom of past India.

Why the need to make Hindi a first subject?

Well, you might be being taught Hindi, but did you really ever pay importance to Hindi as much as you have paid to English. No, right? And the reason for this is that English is a compulsory subject that would be graded in your final score sheet while Hindi is optional and won't much (in fact, not at all if you score better in other subjects). Thus, it's a natural tendency to ignore Hindi language. And thus, the need arises to not only make it the first subject, but also a compulsory subject.

Conclusion

Many readers would ask why I didn't choose Urdu or any other Indian vernacular language. Well, the reason is simply because I do not know it! This, in no way, means that I don't think that language is incapable or inferior. I, in fact, invite you to submit a post if you feel your language too possesses similar characteristics. If you have any feedback, please post a comment to my post below!

I hope I have been successful in conveying my message to the readers, and if the government leaders (or perhaps the HRD minister) happens to read this proposal, please do take it seriously!