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Who was the founder of the Harijan Sevak Sangh?

Who was the founder of the Harijan Sevak Sangh? Correct Answer M K Gandhi

The correct answer is M K Gandhi.

Key Points

  • The All India Harijan Sevak Sangh is an independent national-level non-profit voluntary Organisation with Branches in 26 States.
  • It was founded in September 1932 in the wake of Gandhiji's Epic Fast at Yervada Jail, Pune, resulting in the historic Poona Pact.
  • The immediate historical background dates back to the Second Round Table Conference in London in 1931 when Gandhi Ji opposed the segregation of the depressed classes of the Hindu community into a separate electoral group.
  • Gandhi Ji saw in it a sinister device of the British government to create a split in the Hindu community in furtherance of its policy of divide and rule.
  • The Sangh was established to combat untouchability and a new weekly paper, the Harijan, was started.
  • Harijan means children of God,  it was Gandhi Ji's name for the untouchables.

Additional Information

B G Tilak
  • Freedom fighter and lawyer, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, is also known as Lokmanya Tilak.
  • He is the founder of the Deccan Education Society (1884) along with his associate Gopal Ganesh Agarkar and others.
  • Famous Slogan: “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it!”
  • Along with Lala Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pal, he was part of the Lal-Bal-Pal trio of leaders with extremist outlooks.
  • All India Home Rule League was founded by Tilak in April 1916 at Belgaum.
  • Lucknow Pact (1916) between the INC headed by Tilak and All-India Muslim League led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah for Hindu-Muslim unity in the nationalist struggle.
N M Lokhandy
  • He was the father of the trade union movement in India.
  • He belonged to the ‘phulmali’ community.
  • He started the first labor association in India — ‘Bombay Mill Hands Association’.
B R Ambedkar
  • Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was the first minister of Law and Justice of India.
  • He is known as the 'Father of the Indian Constitution.
  • His Political Party: Scheduled Caste Federation, Independent Labor Party, Republican Party of India.
  • His social Organization: Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha, Samata Sainik Dal.

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