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'', a noted

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newspaper in 1868 and a freedom fighter from

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. He started the India League in 1875 with the object of stimulating the sense of nationalism amongst the people. He was also a

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, remembered for writings on mystic-saint

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, and penning a book on him titled ''Lord Gauranga or Salvation for All'' in 1897. He was one of the first batch of students who passed in the first entrance examination of the

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in 1857.

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