

Today the movement can claim more than 7000 workers working in 6000 centres, covering the entire area of the five states, viz. The number of students increased from 80 in 1919 to hundreds of thousands in subsequent years. Hindi training schools were started in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The first Hindi class was taken by Gandhi's son Devdas Gandhi. The movement was inaugurated by the Annie Besant under the presidency at Gokhale Hall in Madras. The Sabha was inaugurated by Annie Besant on 17 June 1918. 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 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.

The Hindi movement in South India was started in the year 1918 by Mahatma Gandhi. In 1964, the institution was recognised by the Indian Government as one of the Institutes of National Importance. The sabha was inaugurated by Annie Besant on 17 June 1918. The organisation was established by Mahatma Gandhi, who became the founder president of the Sabha, who held the post till his death. The headquarters are located at Thanikachalam Road, T. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Naduĭakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha is an organisation whose main goal is to improve Hindi literacy among the non-Hindi speaking people of South India.
