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periodical published from

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in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Established by

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in 1862, it was published as a weekly bi-lingual periodical and often contained articles supporting the

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and criticism of the British colonial rule. It was later merged in Lokmanya . Ranade, Telang, Chandwarakar, Parvate were involved in success of Induprakash. K.G.Deshpande who was in charge of Induprakash requested Sri Aurobindo to write about the current Political situation. Aurobindo Ghosh began writing a series of fiery articles under the title "New Lamps for Old" where in he strongly criticised the Congress for its moderate policy The newspaper's name means Moon light in English.

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