[Solved] The Vital-Vidhvansak, the first monthly journal to have the untouchable people as its target audience was published by

Q48. 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, (ca. 1840-1900) is an early example of an activist working to release the untouchable people of India from their historic socio-economic oppression, and is generally considered to be the pioneer of that movement. He developed a racial theory to explain the oppression and also published the first journal targeted at the untouchable people. Walangkar claimed that “high-caste people from the south were ‘Australian–Semitic non-Aryans’ and African negroes, that Chitpavan Brahmans were ‘Barbary Jews’, and that the high-caste Marathas’ forebears were ‘Turks’”.

· In 1888, Walangkar began publishing the monthly journal titled Vital-Vidhvansak (Destroyer of Brahmanical or Ceremonial Pollution), which was the first to have the untouchable people as its target audience.