Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar

• The birth anniversary of Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar was observed recently on December 17^th.

ABOUT SAKHARAM GANESH DEVASKAR (1869–1912)

• Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar was born on 17 December 1869 in a village near Deoghar, Jharkhand.
• A revolutionary journalist and a close associate of Sri Aurobindo, he was one of the major architects of the Indian Renaissance.
• Though being of Marathi origin, he was brought up in a Bengali set-up and acted as a bridge between Maharashtra and Bengal’s renaissance.
• A prolific writer, he contributed to most of the revolutionary magazines of Bengali.
• The most influential one among them was the work ‘Desher Katha’ which was later translated in Hindi as ‘Desh Ki Baat’.
• The book was based on the exploitation of the Indian economy by colonial British rule.
• It also summarized the work of M. G. Ranade and D. Naoroji in a popular idiom and warned in its concluding chapter against the colonial state’s “hypnotic conquest of the mind.”
• It helped in mobilizing the masses for the Indian National Movement.
• He considered Bal Gangadhar Tilak as his political guru.
• Deuskar breathed his last on 23 November 1912.