India, July 20 -- What started as a verbal spat over a seat in a Mumbai local train escalated into a full-blown 'Marathi vs Hindi' fight between two groups of passengers, with a woman telling another group of female passengers to speak Marathi or "get out."

The incident took place inside a crowded local train compartment in the Central Line of the Maharashtra capital, where two groups of women could be seen engaged in a verbal spat. A video of the incident has also surfaced on the internet.

The 17-second video, which is now viral, showed half a dozen women engaged in a verbal spat inside the crowded compartment.

The video begins with a woman, outside of the camera frame, abusing another group of passengers. One of the women, engaged in...