Answer» Correct Answer - Option 1 : Raja Ram Mohan Roy
The correct answer is Raja Ram Mohan Roy. - Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder and editor of the following two vernacular weekly newspapers-
- Sambad Kaumudi in Bengali.
- Mirat-ul-Akhbar in the Persian language.
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy is known as 'the father of Indian renaissance',
- He was the founder of 'Brahmo Samaj' and the man who tirelessly fought against the social evils prevailing in the Indian society.
- Roy was the one who pioneered western education in India.
- Roy established the Brahmo Samaj on August 20, 1828, which acted against the evil practices that existed in the Hindu society, especially, the practice of ‘Sati’.
| Shishir Kumar Ghosh | - He was a litterateur, journalist, social worker.
- He was the founder of the Amrita Bazar Patrika, a noted Bengali language newspaper in 1868 and a freedom fighter from Bengal.
- He was one of the founding members of the India League.
| | Rash Bihari Bose | - He played a crucial role in the Ghadar Revolution, a plan to attack the British army from the inside.
- He was the founding father of the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauz) that Subhash Chandra Bose capitalized on later.
- The famous Bomb attack on Lord Hardinge by Rash Behari Bose.
- Japanese Government honored Rash Behari bose with ‘Second Order of the Merit of the Rising Sun’.
| | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar | - He was a philosopher, academic educator, writer, translator, printer, publisher, entrepreneur, reformer, and philanthropist.
- He introduced the practice of widow remarriage and pushed for the Widow Remarriage Act XV of 1856.
- He reconstructed the Bengali alphabet called 'Borno Porichoy' (Character Identification) and reformed Bengali typography into an alphabet (actually abugida) of twelve vowels and forty consonants.
- He received the title of 'Vidyasagar' which means Ocean of Knowledge from Sanskrit College, Calcutta, due to his excellent performance in Sanskrit studies and philosophy.
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