The journal Young India is related to which of the following?

The correct answer is Mahatma Gandhi.

Key Points

• Young India:
  • Young India was a weekly paper or journal in English published by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi from 1919 to 1931. 
  • Gandhi wrote various quotations in this journal that inspired many.
  • He used Young India to spread his unique ideology and thoughts regarding the use of nonviolence in organizing movements and to urge readers to consider, organize, and plan for India's eventual independence from Britain.
  • A Young India copy from 1919. In 1933 Gandhiji started publishing a weekly newspaper, Harijan, in English. Harijan, which means "People of God", and was also Gandhi's term for the untouchable caste - lasted until 1948.
  • During this time Gandhi also published Harijan Bandu in Gujarati, and Harijan Sevak in Hindi.
  • All three papers focused on India's and the world's social and economic problems.

Additional Information

• Writing in the journal Young India in 1931, Gandhiji said, "I cannot possibly bear the idea that a man who has got wealth should have the vote, but that a man who has got character but no wealth or literacy should have no vote, or that a man who works honestly by the sweat of his brow day in and day out should not have the vote for the crime of being a poor man.