Editing Lal Bahadur Shastri (section)

===Domestic policies===
Shastri retained many members of Nehru's [[Council of Ministers of the Republic of India|Council of Ministers]]. [[T. T. Krishnamachari]] was retained as the [[Finance Minister of India]], as was [[Defence Minister of India|Defence Minister]] [[Yashwantrao Chavan]]. Further, He appointed [[Swaran Singh]] to succeed him as [[External Affairs Minister]]. He also appointed [[Indira Gandhi]], daughter of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] and former Congress President, as the [[Minister of Information and Broadcasting]]. Gulzarilal Nanda continued as the [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Minister of Home Affairs]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=LOK SABHA|url=https://legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in/LS/ataglace.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521205101/http://legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in/LS/ataglace.htm|archive-date=2014-05-21|access-date=2020-12-06|website=legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in}}</ref>

{{Main|Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu}}

Lal Bahadur Shastri's tenure witnessed the Madras anti-Hindi agitation of 1965. The government of India had for a long time made an effort to establish [[Hindi]] as the sole national language of India. This was resisted by the non-Hindi speaking states particularly [[Madras State]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Irschick|first=Eugene F.|url=http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Irschick/Tamil.pdf|title=Tamil revivalism in the 1930s|publisher=Cre-A|year=1986|location=Madras|oclc=15015416|access-date=2020-12-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610180818/http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Irschick/Tamil.pdf|archive-date=10 June 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> To calm the situation, Shastri gave assurances that English would continue to be used as the official language as long the non-Hindi speaking states wanted. The riots subsided after Shastri's assurance, as did the student agitation.{{Sfn|Guha|2008|p=187-189}}