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by sumedh 3161 days ago
Yes because most Indians can speak Hindi(Urdu is similar to Hindi). Hindi is the second or third language for many non native Hindi speakers.
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Around 100+ million of 1.2 billion don't speak Hindi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...

No, by the 2001 census it's about 50% of Indians who do not speak Hindi.

I don't see a reason for this fraction to have changed significantly.

That's still very less than the majority.