Who among the following started the newspaper Shome Prakash? [2007] - PMF IAS

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Who among the following started the newspaper Shome Prakash?

Dayanand Saraswati
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Raja Rammohan Roy
Surendranath Banerjee

Explanation

Option (b) is correct

Somprakash (also spelled Shome Prakash) was a Bengali weekly newspaper started in 1858 by Dwarakanath Vidyabhusan. The idea for launching the newspaper was originally proposed by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.

Answer: (b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar