Abstract
Gandhi??s approach to both Politics and Language is ??inclusive?? in its orientation. During the National freedom movement, language had a direct relevance in evaluation of the significance of Gandhi??s role in overturning British rule. He promoted the notion of nation with a linguistic order consisting of ??Hindustani?? as the part of his ??three-language?? formula. This had a neutralizing effect on communal crisis and controversial national language issue. This became a milieu of unification among the various camps of language; Sanskritised Hindi, Persianised Urdu and other provincial languages. His views on language draw a parallel with his ideology on faith, religion and democracy. Gandhi??s language edifice was a counter-balance to the English courts and occidental education system in Colonial India. Though his model falls apart and there exist different status of two ingredient languages of ??Hindustani??, the concept of harmony in heterogeneity is still a major tenet of contemporary relevance.
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