Q. Among the Indian languages, which one is spoken maximum in the world after Hindi?
Answer: Bengali
Notes: Bengali is the Indian language with the second-highest number of speakers globally after Hindi. Bengali has about 83 million native speakers and a total of roughly 272 million including second-language speakers, primarily boosted by Bangladesh's 160 million Bengali speakers. This surpasses Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam in total speakers. Therefore, Bengali ranks second worldwide among Indian languages in terms of total speakers.