Q73
Indian National MovementCommunal Politics & Partition
Who propagated 'Hind-Hindi-Hindu'?
- a.Lala Lajpat Rai
- b.Madan Mohan Malaviya
- c.Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
- d.Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Answer: (C) Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
The book's key links this slogan with Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, President of the Hindu Mahasabha in the 1940s and founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1951), a party that campaigned for Hindi and Hindu nationalism. The slogan 'Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan' itself goes back to Hindi writers of the late 19th century and was later popularised by Hindu Mahasabha leaders. Of the other options, Madan Mohan Malaviya championed Hindi in the Nagari script and founded the Banaras Hindu University, and Lala Lajpat Rai was also a Hindu Mahasabha leader.