alleryMahatma Gandhi launched 'Young India', 'Navjivan' and 'Harijan' as:
ASports magazines
BEducation textbooks (typical)
CVernacular nationalist newspapers
DReligious tracts
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Vernacular nationalist newspapers
1. syllabus discusses print in Indian nationalist mobilisation.
2. Gandhi's papers — Young India (English), Navjivan (Gujarati and Hindi), and Harijan (Gujarati, Hindi, English) — carried his messages to a wide reading public.
3. Print was central to the freedom movement.
_Source: syllabus History India and the Contemporary World - II, Ch 5 "Print Culture and the Modern World", §Nationalist Press ¶1_
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