Sanskrit revival

Sanskrit revival is the ongoing resurgence of interest in and use of the Sanskrit language in India. Sanskrit is one of the 22 scheduled languages in the Indian Constitution, which gives it official recognition at the federal level. On top of that, in 2010, Uttarakhand became the first state in India to have Sanskrit as its second official language, followed by Himachal Pradesh, in 2019.

There have been numerous efforts to restore Sanskrit to its former prominence, with widespread federal and state-level governmental support for Sanskrit education. With continuing Sanskrit education across Indian schools and universities, and high-demand for learning Sanskrit, the overall (first, second, third language) speakers naturally increases in every census. As of 2025, Samskrita Bharati, one of the most popular and widely-known non-profit Sanskrit learning institutions, reports training over 10 million people through its conversation campus to speak in Sanskrit, and over 135,000 teachers to teach professionally with Sanskrit as medium of instruction in schools and universities. Additionally, they report having set up over 6000 Sanskrit homes, one of their flagship projects, where all members of such families speak in Sanskrit, and the mother tongue (native language) of the children is Sanskrit.

According to the last conducted Indian Census, in 2011, there were 3,122,823 total speakers of Sanskrit (as a first, second, or third language), with 24,821 speakers reporting it as their first language, 1.13 million as a second language, and 1.96 million as a third language Despite projects such as Sanskrit Bharati's 6000 Sanskrit homes, first-language Sanskrit statistics from the census are widely reported and interpreted simply as a wish to be aligned with the prestige of the language, due to fluctuations in first language speaker counts across decennial censuses.

Sanskrit was added to Google Translate in 2022, as it was the most requested language at that time. Many Western countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, European countries, as well as China have also witnessed propagation of Sanskrit.