Here is Question No. 28 a part of our series on UPSC Prelims 2020.
Q28. The Vital-Vidhvansak, the first monthly journal to have the untouchable people as its target audience was published by
(a)Gopal Baba Walangkar
(b) Jyotiba Phule
(c) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
(d) Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Answer: A
- Gopal Baba Walangkar, also known as Gopal Krishna, (1840-1900) was an activist working to release the untouchable people of India from their historic socio-economic oppression. He is generally considered to be the pioneer of that movement. He developed a racial theory to explain the oppression. In 1888, Walangkar began publishing the monthly journal titled (Destroyer of Brahmanical or Ceremonial Pollution), which was the first to have untouchable people as its target audience.
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