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Q4 (CAPF/2026) History & Culture › Culture, Literature, Religion & Philosophy

Which of the following statements about Ol Chiki script is/are correct?
1. The Government of India recently celebrated two hundred years of the development of this script.
2. This script has been used for the Santhali language.
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Your answer: —  ·  Correct: B

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Statement 1 is incorrect: The Ol Chiki script was created by Pandit Raghunath Murmu in 1925. It is not two hundred years old; its centenary (100 years) will be in 2025. While the government frequently honors the legacy of Pandit Murmu, there has been no celebration of a 200-year milestone for this 20th-century script.

Statement 2 is correct: Ol Chiki is the official script used for the Santhali language, which is spoken by the Santhal community in states like Odisha, Jharkhand, and West Bengal. Santhali was included in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution through the 92nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 2003, making it one of India's 22 official languages. Previously, Santhali was written in scripts like Devanagari, Bengali, or Odia, but Ol Chiki was developed specifically to represent the phonology of the language.

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