Gandhiji preferred to answer most of his letters in Hindi only. He brought out two newspapers in Hindi - Navjeevan and Harijan Sevak. Gandhi also brought out several newspapers in Hindi, English and Gujarati languages.
It was simple Hindi, which Gandhi used as a communication language. It was different from the Sanskritised Hindi of that time. The Hindi that Gandhi used to write and speak was not called Hindi, but Hindustani. Poet Premchand admitted that his association with Hindi and the national movement was possible only because of Gandhi. Gandhi's relationship with Hindi writers and poets also remained very close. To that, Gandhi said that the entire world does not know English. After Independence, a foreign journalist asked him to give a message to the world. Embracing vocabulary from Sanskrit, Urdu, and many. That is why he talked about making Hindi the national language and linked the entire national movement with it. Together with its sister languages like Urdu, Hindi is the fourth largest spoken language of the world.
Some local colleagues helped him in this matter, but Gandhi himself learned Hindi very diligently.īefore joining the freedom movement, Gandhiji travelled all across India and found that Hindi is the only language that can connect the whole country. When Gandhi went to Champaran, the biggest problem he faced was the language.
When Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi came to India from South Africa in 1915, his first movement started from Champaran in Bihar. Role of Mahatma Gandhi in promoting Hindi “Using Hindi in national practice is necessary for the progress of the country," he said. Mahatma Gandhi called Hindi the language of the masses and talked about making Hindi the national language of the nation. Hindi Diwas or Hindi Day is observed across the country every year on September 14 and its main objective is to preserve and maintain this language.