Somasekhara\u2019s essay traces the history of “Satyagrahi,” founded in the 1920s – a Telugu journal that Somasekhara claims played a pivotal role not merely in espousing the cause for freedom, but also launched fearless crusades in favour of eradicating persistent social evils of the time. His essay addresses the journal\u2019s response to many of these issues in turn, eventually concluding that Satyagrahi \u201csupported many noble causes which were all inextricably interlinked with the national movement\u2026[t]he cumulative affect of all this was national resurgence and a national awakening among the people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Somasekhara\u2019s essay traces the history of “Satyagrahi,” founded in the 1920s – a Telugu journal that Somasekhara claims played a pivotal role not merely in espousing the cause for freedom, but also launched fearless crusades in favour of eradicating persistent social evils of the time. His essay addresses the journal\u2019s response to many of these Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[23,26],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-devadasis","tag-history","tag-secondary-source"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t