Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Established | 1918 |
| Founder | Mahatma Gandhi |
| President | Dr. Justice V.S. Malimath |
| Location | India |
| Campus | Andhra Pradesh,Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu |
| Language | Hindi |
| Website | Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha |
Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha is an organisation whose main goal is to improve Hindi literacy among the non-Hindi speaking people of South India. The headquarters are located at Thanikachalam Road, T. Nagar, Chennai.
The organisation was established by Annie Besant with support from Mahatma Gandhi. The institution has been recognised by the Indian Government as one of the Institutes of National Importance.
The Hindi movement in South India was started in the year 1918 by Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi saw the need to unite the northern and southern states of the country in the greatest interest of integration of the nation, as Hindi was spoken by the largest section of the people of India. Therefore, he founded the Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha at Madras to propagate the study of Hindi in the then Madras Presidency and princely states of Banganapalle, Cochin, Hyderabad, Mysore, Pudukkottai, Sanduru and Travancore. Gandhi also remained the life-time president of the institution.
The movement was inaugurated by the Annie Besant under the presidency at Gokhale Hall in Madras. The first Hindi class was taken by Gandhi's son Devdas Gandhi. Hindi training schools were started in Andhra and Tamil Nadu. The number of students increased from 80 in 1919 to hundreds of thousands in subsequent years. Today the movement can claim more than 7000 workers working in 6000 centres, covering the entire area of the five states, viz.Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, with an area of 650,000 square kilometers with a population of about 120 million.
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