Is it really largely due to any imposition or popularity?

the comment section was crying over this, many southern blaming Hindi for killing northern Indian languages, but they failed to understand that dissolving of a language (or a dialect) is just inevitable, your language is not the major factor of your identity it's more of a tool for communication, there's no need to divide the country further by this childish nonsense, how insecure do i have to be to understand their reasoning. Any southern here?