The 'Pratap' newspaper that supported the Bijolia movement was started by:

Explanation

Pratap was a revolutionary weekly founded by Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, whom President of India describes as a freedom fighter and learned journalist. The paper was published from Kanpur, and Vijay Singh Pathik regularly wrote in it on the Bijolia movement. Pathik used Pratap as a platform to bring the peasants' struggle wider attention, but the paper itself was not his creation. The founder of Pratap was Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, while Pathik was connected with it as a contributor on Bijolia.

Why the other options are wrong

• (A) Vijay Singh Pathik is linked to Pratap because he wrote regularly on the Bijolia movement, but the newspaper was founded by Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi.
• (B) Jai Narayan Vyas did not found Pratap; Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi founded the newspaper.
• (D) Manikyalal Verma did not found Pratap; Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi founded the newspaper.

Concept

The Rajasthan peasant-movement press network separated the creation of a nationalist platform from its use for mobilisation. Bijolia connected local agrarian protest with wider nationalist public opinion.

Source

• President of India

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