Gokak Agitation

Subject – Governance

Context – Organisations decry ‘step motherly treatment’ meted out to Kannada

Concept –

The Gokak agitation was a successful language rights agitation in the 1980s that fought for the first-language status of the Kannada language in the South Indian state of Karnataka.
It was named after the committee headed by Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, which recommended giving primacy to Kannada in state schools.