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UPSC 2020: Who among the following was associated with the publication of the first Marathi newspaper for the depressed classes, ‘Din Bandhu’?
(a)Gopal Baba Walangkar
(b)Jyotiba Phule
(c)Mahatma Gandhi
(d)B. R. Ambedkar
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‘Din Bandhu’ (first issued January 1877) was started by K. P. Bhalekar as the voice of Jyotiba Phule’s Satyashodhak Samaj; contemporary accounts note that “Phule along with his friend K. R. Bhalekar had started a paper Din Bandhu… as the first newspaper in India to cater explicitly for the lower strata of society.” Thus Jyotiba Phule was closely associated with its publication. The other figures were linked to different Dalit journals (e.g., Walangkar’s ‘Vital-Vidhvansak’, Ambedkar’s ‘Mooknayak’). ([es.scribd.com](https://es.scribd.com/document/874167726/2024-Anand-Teltumbde-Iconoclast-a-Reflective-Biography-of-Dr-Babasaheb-Ambedkar))
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