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{{Short description|Indian journalist}} | {{Short description|Indian journalist (1890-1931)}} | ||
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|image = The heaven-gone svargiya Pandit Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi.jpg | |image = The heaven-gone svargiya Pandit Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi.jpg | ||
|caption = 1940s portrait | |caption = 1940s portrait | ||
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1890|10|26}} | |birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1890|10|26}} | ||
|birth_place = [[ | |birth_place = [[Allahabad]], [[North-Western Provinces]], [[British India]] | ||
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1931|03|25|1890|10|26}} | |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1931|03|25|1890|10|26}} | ||
|death_place = [[Cawnpore]] | |death_place = [[Cawnpore]], [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]], [[British India]] | ||
|occupation = Journalist | |occupation = Journalist, author, writer | ||
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|title = Editor- '''Pratap''' (1913–1931) | |title = Editor- '''Pratap''' (1913–1931) | ||
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|yearsactive = 1890–1931 | |yearsactive = 1890–1931 | ||
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'''Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi''' (26 October 1890 – 25 March 1931) was an Indian journalist, a leader of the [[Indian National Congress]]<ref name="2001book">{{cite book |last=Gooptu |first=Nandini |date=2001 |title=The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZTLEEGmZfQC&pg=PA90 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |pages=90–376 |isbn=978-0521443661 }}</ref> and an [[Indian independence movement|independence movement]] activist. He was an important figure in the [[non-cooperation movement]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Pandey |first=Gyanendra |date=2002 |title=The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JwWX8E8Xz58C&pg=PA53 |publisher=Anthem Press |pages=37–77 |isbn=978-1843317623}}</ref> and the freedom movement of India, who once translated [[Victor Hugo]]'s novel ''[[Ninety-Three]]'',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Simon |first1=Sherry |last2=St. Pierre |first2=Paul |date=2000 |title=Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era | '''Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi''' (26 October 1890 – 25 March 1931) was an Indian journalist, a leader of the [[Indian National Congress]]<ref name="2001book">{{cite book |last=Gooptu |first=Nandini |date=2001 |title=The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZTLEEGmZfQC&pg=PA90 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |pages=90–376 |isbn=978-0521443661 }}</ref> and an [[Indian independence movement|independence movement]] activist. He was an important figure in the [[non-cooperation movement]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Pandey |first=Gyanendra |date=2002 |title=The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JwWX8E8Xz58C&pg=PA53 |publisher=Anthem Press |pages=37–77 |isbn=978-1843317623}}</ref> and the freedom movement of India, who once translated [[Victor Hugo]]'s novel ''[[Ninety-Three]]'',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Simon |first1=Sherry |last2=St. Pierre |first2=Paul |date=2000 |title=Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cmJ5O0ZOwqsC&pg=PA89 |publisher=University of Ottawa Press |page=89 |isbn=978-0776605241 }}</ref> and is mostly known as the founder-editor of the [[Hindi language]] newspaper, ''Pratap''.<ref name="1965book">{{cite book |last=Brass |first=Paul R. |date=1965 |title=Factional Politics in an Indian State: The Congress Party in Uttar Pradesh |url=https://archive.org/details/factionalpolitic0000bras|url-access=registration |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/factionalpolitic0000bras/page/169 169]–196 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Mukul |first=Akshaya |date= 2015-11-03|title=Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BOhrCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT16 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-9351772316 }}</ref><ref name="2004book">{{cite book |last=Gould |first=William |date= 2004-04-15|title=Hindu Nationalism and the Language of Politics in Late Colonial India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XNsganXnq-oC&pg=PA61|publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=61–100 |isbn=978-1139451956 }}</ref> | ||
==Life== | ==Life== | ||
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Communalism swept Western Uttar Pradesh in the 1920s as the Shuddhi movement gained steam and Kanpur was no exception.<ref name="2001book" /> In February 1927, Vidyarthi and other Congress leaders had organized a demonstration to the Moolganj mosque and played music for forty minutes; this was in retaliation to a Muslim mob attacking a musical band accompanying a Hindu marriage procession.<ref name="2001book" /> Despite, Vidyarthi was known for his secular politics and sympathy for Muslims.<ref name="2001book" /> | Communalism swept Western Uttar Pradesh in the 1920s as the Shuddhi movement gained steam and Kanpur was no exception.<ref name="2001book" /> In February 1927, Vidyarthi and other Congress leaders had organized a demonstration to the Moolganj mosque and played music for forty minutes; this was in retaliation to a Muslim mob attacking a musical band accompanying a Hindu marriage procession.<ref name="2001book" /> Despite, Vidyarthi was known for his secular politics and sympathy for Muslims.<ref name="2001book" /> | ||
In 1931, Kanpur | In 1931, Kanpur faced communal rioting.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last=Gandhi|first=Rajmohan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FauJL7LKXmkC&pg=PA327|title=Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire|date=2006|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|isbn=978-0520255708|page=327}}</ref> Despite being scheduled to proceed for the Karachi Congress Session, he chose to stay back and rescue the people before felling to the mob.<ref name="2001book" /><ref name=":0" /> Eyewitnesses note him to have rescued members of both communities; Vidyarthi was murdered while trying to rescue a group of trapped Hindus from a Muslim mob and his daughter claimed in an interview that it was manifested by the colonial government.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Remembering Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, an Editor Who Lived – and Died – for Communal Harmony|url=https://thewire.in/history/editor-lived-died-communal-harmony|access-date=2021-12-22|website=The Wire}}</ref>{{Efn|Vidyarthi recalls an aunt stating to her that weapons were being distributed in localities days before the riot started and it was said that the ‘Lion of Kanpur’ [Vidyarthi] would be assassinated.}} Vidyarthi's disfigured body—showing multiple stab wounds—would only be found a few days later, near litter.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bakshi |first=S. R. |date=1988 |title=Gandhi and the Mass Movements |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4i1aMXriA0sC&pg=PA198|publisher=Atlantic Publishers |page=198 }}</ref> | ||
== Legacy == | == Legacy == | ||