Question

Who started the weekly newspaper Sudharak?
1. Lokmanya Tilak
2. Behramji Malabari
3. Mahatma Phule
4. Gopal Agarkar

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Gopal Agarkar

The correct answer is Gopal Agarkar.

• Ganesh Agarkar was an Indian social reformer from Maharashtra.
• He was a close associate of Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
• He was the first editor of the weekly Kesari.
• Agarkar resigned from the editorship of Kesari in October 1887.

 

• The weekly newspaper Sudharak was started by Ganesh Agarkar.
  • It was founded in 1888.
  • It was published both in English as well as Marathi languages.
  • It was published in the city of Pune.
  • He propagated individual freedom, rationalism, and social justice through his newspaper Sudharak.
• He is the co-founder of the Deccan Education Society.
• He was the Principal of Ferguson college from 1892 to 1895.

 

• Kesari was a Marathi newspaper started in 1881 by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
• Jyotirao Phule wrote a book named Gulamgiri in 1873.
• Infant Marriage and Enforced Widowhood in India is a collection of notes published by Behramji Malabari in 1884.