Question
Download Solution PDFWhich newspaper was founded by Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa in 1903?
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Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Indian Opinion.
Key Points
- Indian Opinion was started by Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa.
- This paper existed from 1903 to 1905 and served as a useful tool to fight against racial discrimination and thus played a key role in winning civil rights for the Indian immigrants in South Africa.
- The publication was an important tool for the political movement led by Gandhi and the National Indian Congress to fight racial discrimination and win civil rights for the Indian immigrant community in South Africa.
Additional Information
- Young India:
- It was started by the "Home Rule Party".
- Young India was a weekly journal published under the supervision of "Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi" from the year 1919 to 1931.
- This journal inspired many people as Gandhi write his quotations in it.
- This helped Gandhi in spreading his ideas and message to the people to motivate them in order to get freedom for Britain.
- Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule:
- It is a book written by Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1909.
- Expresses his views on Swaraj, modern civilization, mechanization, etc.
- The book was banned in 1910 by the British government in India as a seditious text.
- Gandhi's Hind Swaraj takes the form of a dialogue between two characters, "The Reader and The Editor".
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