"Hindustani should be neither Sanskritised Hindi nor Persianised Urdu but a happy combination of both.” To whom is this statement attributed?
1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Jawaharlal Nehru
3. R. V. Dhulekar
4. Govind Ballabh Pant

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A few months before his death Mahatma Gandhi reiterated his views on the language question:

This Hindustani should be neither Sanskritised Hindi nor Persianised Urdu but a happy combination of both. It should also freely admit words wherever necessary from the different regional languages and also assimilate words from foreign languages, provided that they can mix well and easily with our national language. Thus our national language must develop into a rich and powerful instrument capable of expressing the whole gamut of human thought and feelings. To confine oneself to Hindi or Urdu would be a crime against intelligence and the spirit of patriotism.

-HARIJANSEVAK, 12 OCTOBER 1947