Prominent Personalities in Modern History: UPSC Previous Year Questions (Modern History)
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UPSC 2000Modern History · Prominent Personalities in Modern History
Q1. While delivering the presidential address, the Congress President who advocated the introduction of Roman script for Hindi language was:
Explanation
Subhash Chandra Bose, while delivering the presidential address at the 51st Session of the Indian National Congress (INC) in Haripura (1938) proposed the introduction of the Roman script for Hindi to make the language more accessible especially for non-Hindi speakers. Bose believed that adopting the Roman script would help simplify learning Hindi for Indians from different linguistic backgrounds and improve its adaptability. He emphasized that language should not be a barrier in national unity and sought a pragmatic approach to linguistic communication. Most leaders and linguists, including Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, opposed the idea of Romanizing Hindi. After independence, the Devanagari script was retained for Hindi, and English was kept as an associate official language to bridge linguistic diversity.
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(d) Subhash Chandra Bose
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