A few months before his death Mahatma Gandhi reiterated his views on the language question. Identify the correct statements:
A. Our national language ‘Hindustani’ should not be sanskritised Hindi.
B. Our national language ‘Hindustani’ should not be Persianised Urdu.
C. Our national language ‘Hindustani’ should freely admit words wherever necessary from the different regional languages.
D. Our national language ‘Hindustani’ must be capable of expressing the whole gamut of human thought and feelings.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A, B, C and D
Mahatma Gandhi wanted the national language to be Hindustani, a blend of Hindi and Urdu that common people could easily understand. A few months before his death, in Harijansevak of 12 October 1947, he set out what it should be like.
A. Our national language ‘Hindustani’ should not be sanskritised Hindi. Correct. Gandhiji wrote that Hindustani should be neither Sanskritised Hindi nor Persianised Urdu but a happy combination of both.
B. Our national language ‘Hindustani’ should not be Persianised Urdu. Correct. The same sentence rules out Persianised Urdu as well.
C. Our national language ‘Hindustani’ should freely admit words wherever necessary from the different regional languages. Correct. It should freely admit words from the regional languages, and also take words from foreign languages that mix well with it.
D. Our national language ‘Hindustani’ must be capable of expressing the whole gamut of human thought and feelings. Correct. It must develop into a rich and powerful instrument capable of expressing the whole gamut of human thought and feelings.
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