Who established the 'Akhil Bharatiya Harijan Sangh'?

Who established the 'Akhil Bharatiya Harijan Sangh'? Correct Answer Mahatma Gandhi

Solution

The correct answer is Mahatma Gandhi

Key Points

• In 1932, Akhil Bharatiya Harijan Sangh was established by Mahatma Gandhi.
• Akhil Bharatiya Harijan Sangh is a non-profit organization founded to eradicate untouchability in India, working for Harijan or Dalit people and uplifting scheduled castes of India.
• At the time industrialist, Ghanshyam Das Birla was its founding president with Amritlal Takkar as its secretary.
• He was Born on 2 October 1869. 
• He died on 30 January 1948.
• He was undoubtedly a great man, both in personal force and in political effect.
• He was an Indian Lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who molded the character of the struggle for freedom in India, and impressed his own ideals upon the new governing class that came into power when the English went home.
• Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa on 9 January 1915. 
• After arriving in India, Mahatma Gandhi successfully organized Satyagraha Movements in various places.
• Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in 1915 at the request of Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
• Gandhiji's return from South Africa can be seen as perfect timing for the future development of the Indian national movement. Gokhale helped Gandhiji at the time of hardships in raising funds when Gandhiji was in South Africa.
• Gokhale insisted to Gandhiji that he had been far away from his nation. He wanted Gandhiji to come to India and know the situation in India under British Rule. 

Additional Information

•  Dadabhai Naoroji​
  • Dadabhai Naoroji, the “Grand Old Man of India”, was the first Indian member of the British parliament.
  • In 1865 and 1866, Naoroji helped found the London Indian Society and the East India Association respectively.
  • He was Congress president thrice, in 1886, 1893, and 1906.
  • Dadabhai Naoroji was among the key proponents of the ‘Drain Theory’, disseminating it in his 1901 book ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India’.
• Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  • Gopal Krishna Gokhale was a great social reformer and educationist who provided exemplary leadership to India's freedom movement.
  • He worked towards social empowerment, expansion of education, struggle for freedom in India for three decades and rejected the use of reactionary or revolutionary ways.
  • Between 1899 and 1902, he was a member of the Bombay Legislative Council followed by work at the Imperial Legislative Council from 1902 till his death (1915).
  • At the Imperial legislature, Gokhale played a key role in framing the Morley-Minto reforms of 1909.
  • He was associated with the Moderate Group of Indian National Congress (joined in 1889).
  • He was also associated with the Sarvajanik Sabha journal started by Govind Ranade.
  • In 1908, Gokhale founded the Ranade Institute of Economics.
  • He started an English weekly newspaper, The Hitavada (The people's paper).
  • He became president of INC in 1905 in the Banaras session.
• Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar​
  • BR Ambedkar is known as the “Father of the Indian Constitution”.
  • He was born on 14 April 1891 in the Mhow town of Madhya Pradesh in the Dalit family.
  • He completed his post-graduation from Columbia University in the United States in 1913.
  • He had knowledge of 9 languages; his personal library "Rajgirh" consisted of more than 50,000 books.
  • He had started Social organizations like Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha and Samata Sainik Dal to remove social evil from society.
  • In 1920 he published a weekly Mooknayak in Mumbai with the help of Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj.
  • He was appointed to the Bombay Presidency Committee to work with the Simon Commission in 1925.
  • BR Ambedkar had attended the All the Three Round Table conference in London.