Q. “He held the post of a judge under British raj and wrote for a weekly Prabhakar under the pen name of Lokahitawadi on social reform issues” – describes who among the following?
Answer: A
Notes:
Gopalhari Deshmukh (1823-1892) was a social reformer and rationalist from Maharashtra.
- He held the post of a judge under British raj, but wrote for a weekly Prabhakar under the pen name of Lokahitawadi on social reform issues.
- He advocated a reorganisation of Indian society on rational principles and modern, humanistic, secular values.
- He attacked Hindu orthodoxy and supported social and religious equality. He wrote against the evils of the caste system.
- He said, “If religion does not sanction social reform, then change religion.”
- He started a weekly, Hitechhu, and also played a leading role in founding the periodicals, Gyan Prakash, Indu Prakash and Lokahitawadi.
Source: Spectrum’s A Brief History of Modern India.
