Paris, Feb. 9 -- Harit Joshi, a Hindi and Indian History Professor at Inalco University in France said that several people in France study Hindi to properly understand Indian society and history.

Other than Hindi, people learn other Indian languages like Urdu, Bengali, etc, which helps them to conduct business there.

"French people or French students who come to our university to learn Hindi or any other Indian language have different motives. There are some people who are doing research work on India. They want to know about the history of India about the Indian society, about the culture of India. They realize that in order to know about a country, it is very important to know about the language there or the languages spoken there, so...