New Delhi: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi launched a weekly and English magazine Young India in 1919, which continued to be published in full swing for 12 years, after which it stopped. Most interestingly, Gandhi's magazine appeared in English, when about 80 per cent of the country's population did not know English. Mahatma Gandhi started this magazine to broadcast his thoughts and philosophy.
The year 'Young India' was launched was a year of anger and hatred for India. The Stringent Rowlatt Act, followed by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, etc., prohibiting civil liberties in the name of World war I, were important issues of this magazine. Its editorial made it a 'page turner' in public life at that time. Young India became the main thought partner of English-educated India during its lifetime (1919-1932).
At that time, the population of "farmers and labourers" who did not know English was 80 per cent of India's population. The question arises as to why Gandhi started this magazine in English. It is said that Gandhi wanted to reach out not only to the farmers and labourers but also to the elite class. At the same time, he especially wanted to reach out to the Madras Presidency and he could do so only through the English language. So the magazine, founded and edited by Gandhi, began to be published in English, which was far from understood for the common man of the country.
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