Official scripts of India
Officially mandated writing systems in India
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Bengali–Assamese Script
The Bengali–Assamese script is the official script for the Bengali and Assamese language in West Bengal, Assam and Tripura.
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Devanagari Script
The Constitution of India says:
The official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script. The form of numerals to be used for the official purposes of the Union shall be the international form of Indian numerals.
— Part XVII of the Indian Constitution
Being the official script for Hindi, Devanagari is officially used in the Union Government of India as well as several Indian states where Hindi is an official language: Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and the Indian union territories of Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Gujarat and West Bengal also officially use Devanagari, as these two states recognise Hindi as an additional official language.
The Devanagari script (देवनागरी, romanized: Devanāgarī) is the officially mandated script of the Nepali language in Sikkim and West Bengal, Marathi language in Maharashtra and Goa, Bodo language in Assam, the Konkani language in Goa, and Sanskrit in Himachal Pradesh.
Gujarati script
The Gujarati script is the official script for the Gujarati language in Gujarat and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
Gurmukhi Script
The Gurmukhi script (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ) is the official script for the Punjabi language in Punjab, and Delhi.
Kannada Script
The Kannada script is the official script for the Kannada language in Karnataka.
Latin Script
The Latin Script is the official script for the English language in Union Government of India and its states like Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Malayalam Script
The Malayalam script is the official script for the Malayalam language in Kerala.
Meitei Script
The Meitei script (Meitei: ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ, romanized: Meitei mayek) is the officially mandated script for the Meitei language of Manipur, replacing the Bengali script, albeit with some allowance for parallel use. It is also used in Assam for the Meitei language.
Odia script
The Odia script is the official script for the Odia language in Odisha.
Ol Chiki Script
The Ol Chiki script (ᱚᱞ ᱪᱤᱠᱤ, Santali pronunciation: [ɔl tʃiki], ɔl 'writing', tʃiki 'symbol') is the official script for the Santali language in Jharkhand and West Bengal.
Perso-Arabic script
The Perso-Arabic script is the official script for Kashmiri and Urdu languages in Jammu and Kashmir.
Telugu Script
The Telugu script (Telugu: తెలుగు లిపి, romanized: Telugu lipi) is the official script for the Telugu language in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Union Territory Puducherry.
Tamil Script
The Tamil script (Tamil: தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி, romanized: Tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi) is the official script for the Tamil language in Tamil Nadu and Union Territory Puducherry. Although there is no explicit legal provision defining the Tamil script as the official script, it is implicitly recognised as such since it is used in the formulation of laws and official documents.