Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c12.s12.25

c12.s12.25

Probably a good deal of the masses, in the Northern Indian plains, particularly among the lower classes, were bilingual, but the fast disappearing non-Aryan was not getting anybody's sympathy. The situation is like what one still sees in certain parts of India like Chota Nagpur and Assam, where the non-Aryan speeches are being steadily pushed out by Aryan.