Gokak agitation
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The Gokak agitation (Kannada: ಗೋಕಾಕ್ ಚಳುವಳಿ) 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.
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It was named after the committee headed by Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, which recommended giving primacy to Kannada in state schools.