Who started the newspaper Mook Nayak in the year 1920?
- A.Dadabhai Naoroji
- B.Jyotiba Phule
- C.B. R Ambedkar
- D.Mahadeo Govind Ranade
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The correct answer is C, B. R. Ambedkar. He launched the Marathi fortnightly Mooknayak, meaning leader of the voiceless, in January 1920 with help from Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur, and used it to argue the case of the depressed classes; Bahishkrit Bharat, Janata and Prabuddha Bharat followed. Option A, Dadabhai Naoroji, belongs to an earlier generation and to the moderates, and is remembered for the drain theory and for Poverty and Un-British Rule in India rather than for a newspaper of this kind. Option B, Jyotiba Phule, died in 1890, thirty years before this paper appeared; his work was the Satyashodhak Samaj of 1873 and the book Gulamgiri. Option D, Mahadeo Govind Ranade, the social reformer who founded the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha and inspired the Indian National Social Conference, also died well before 1920.
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