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Which religious reformer of Western India was known as ‘Lokhitwadi’ ?
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- Gopal Hari Deshmukh
- R.G. Bhandarkar
- Mahadev Govind Ranade
- B.G. Tilak
Correct Option: A
Gopal Hari Deshmukh was a social reformer from Maharashtra, India. At age 25, Deshmukh started writing articles aimed at social reform in Maharashtra in the weekly Prabhakar under the pen name Lokhitawadi. In the first two years, he penned 108 articles on social reform. That group of articles has come to be known in Marathi literature as Lokhitawadinchi Shatapatre.
