Place · Hindi-teaching institution · India
Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha, Chennai
Also known as DBHPS Chennai, Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha
Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha (DBHPS) at T Nagar in Chennai was founded in 1918 by Mohandas Gandhi on an initial donation from Jamnalal Bajaj to teach Hindi as a national link-language in the four southern states — Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala. Gandhi served as its first president and the institution continues to run a four-step Hindi certification examination (Prathamik, Madhyama, Rashtrabhasha, Praveshika) that is still accepted as proof of Hindi proficiency by the Union Public Service Commission and most state recruitment boards. The Sabha was declared an Institution of National Importance by Act of Parliament in 1964; its historic campus at T Nagar carries a Gandhi statue and the original Khadi-and-Hindi library. The DBHPS Hyderabad regional centre has been the principal source of Hindi-literate officers in the four southern states for over a century.
- Function
- Learning & scholarship
- Patron dynasty
- Gandhi / Jamnalal Bajaj
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 13.058, 80.250
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- Monastic foundationMohandās Karamchand Gandhi
Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha at Chennai was founded by Mohandas Gandhi in 1918 on an initial donation from Jamnalal Bajaj, to teach Hindi as a national link-language in the four southern states. Gandhi served as its first president and continued to patronise the institution through the Khadi-and-Hindi movement of the 1920s and 1930s; it was declared an Institution of National Importance by Act of Parliament in 1964.
- Site withinMadras / Chennai
Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha occupies a historic T Nagar campus in central Chennai, next to the Thyagaraja statue; the Sabha's four-step Hindi examination is administered from here across the four southern states.
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