The Vital-Vidhvansak, the first monthly journal to have the untouchable people as its target audienc

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The Vital-Vidhvansak, the first monthly journal to have the untouchable people as its target audience was published by

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Gopal Baba Walangkar, also known as Gopal Krishna, (ca. 1840-1900) is an early example of an activist working to release the untouchable people of India from their historic socio-economic oppression, and is generally considered to be the pioneer of that movement. He developed a racial theory to explain the oppression and also published the first journal targeted at the untouchable people. Walangkar claimed that:  high-caste people from the south were Australian–Semitic non-Aryans and African negroes Chitpavan Brahmans were Barbary Jews the high-caste Marathas' forebears were Turks  In 1888, Walangkar began publishing the monthly journal titled Vital-Vidhvansak (Destroyer of Brahmanical or Ceremonial Pollution), which was the first to have the untouchable people as its target audience.