Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Framing the Constitution

Question:

Which of the following language was proposed by Mahatma Gandhi as the national language as it could be spoken by the common people?

Options:

Arabic

Sanskrit

Hindustani

Persian

Correct Answer:

Hindustani

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → Hindustani

By the 1930s, the Congress had accepted that Hindustani ought to be the national language. Mahatma Gandhi felt that everyone should speak in a language that common people could easily understand. Hindustani – a blend of Hindi and Urdu – was a popular language of a large section of the people of India, and it was a composite language enriched by the interaction of diverse cultures. Over the years it had incorporated words and terms from very many different sources and was therefore understood by people from various regions. This multi-cultural language, Mahatma Gandhi thought, would be the ideal language of communication between diverse communities: it could unify Hindus and Muslims, and people of the north and the south.