UPSC Prelims 2020 Question:

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

Explanation:

• Gopal Baba Walangkar, also known as Gopal Krishna (1840-1900) is generally considered to be the pioneer of the movement of the emergence of Dalit periodicals. He was greatly influenced by Jyotiba Phule. Walangkar extended Phule’s version of the ‘Racial Theory’, that the untouchable people of India were the indigenous inhabitants and that the Brahmin people were descended from Aryans who had invaded the country.
  
  
• In 1988, Walangkar began publishing a monthly journal 'Vital-Vidhwansak' (Destroyer of Brahmanical or Ceremonial Pollution), which was the first to have the untouchables as its target audience. He also wrote articles for Marathi-language newspapers such as Sudharak and Deenbandhu, as well as composed couplets in Marathi that were intended to inspire the people.
  
  

Therefore, option (1) is the correct answer.

Subject: History |Important Personalities