Hindi poetry has a rich and robust progressive past. Leading Hindi poets were at the forefront of the All Indian Progressive Writers’ Association (AIPWA). In the domain of Hindi poetry, the progressive sentiment started to gain ascendancy right from the 1930s. While the latter-day Nirala and Pant gravitated towards progressive ideals of redeeming and respecting the small and the marginal, the post-1947 generation of Hindi poets, particularly the triumvirate of Nagarujan, Trilochan and Kedarnath Agarwal, draws our attention to the travails of rural life, its continuous neglect in post-Independence India. After the 1960s, the progressive poets turned towards janvad—a credo not fundamentally different from pragativad, but which insisted on pro-people poetry that takes on the opportunistic politics of the comprador native elite. The language of the poetry acquires remarkable frankness and candour, and the tone of resistance is sharp and belligerent. Later, prayogvad did threaten to distract Hindi poetry towards aestheticism, but many Taar Saptak poets drifted towards pragativad, harnessing modern techniques of poetry to express their unease with the ruling elite. Muktibodh, Raghuvir Sahay, Dhoomil and many other poets lent a rare activist edge to Hindi poetry. The chapter further traces the presence of progressive register in the poetry of the next generation of poets like Alok Dhanva, Maglesh Dabral and Rajesh Joshi. The chapter culminates with a brief account of the appropriation of janvadi ideals by women and Dalit poets’ writing in Hindi.