SolutionThe correct answer is Rajaram Mohan RoyRajaram Mohan RoyGopal Krishna Gokhale called Rajaram Mohan Roy the ‚¬ËœFather of Modern India‚¬„¢. In 1828, Roy set up the Brahmo Samaj, a reformist movement of the Hindu religion that aimed at fighting social evils that were prevalent ie society. He opposed superstitious practices, customs such as Sati, polygamy, child marriage, the rigidity of the caste system and its excesses, and sought property inheritance rights for women. The governor of the Bengal Presidency, Lord William Bentinck, formally banned the practice on December 4, in the year 1829. Raja Rammohan Roy started the first Bengali language weekly newspaper and also the first newspaper in an Indian language. His newspaper Sambad Koumudi helped people form an opinion about the issues affecting their daily life in British India. In 1822, Roy published the journal Mirat-ul-Akbar in Persian. Important Points'Periyar' E. V. RPeriyar is remembered for the Self Respect Movement to redeem the identity and self-respect of Tamils. He launched a political party, Dravidar Kazhagam (DK). Periyar started his political career as a Congress worker in his hometown Erode. Periyar resigned from the party in 1925 and associated himself with the Justice Party and the Self Respect Movement. Periyar‚¬„¢s fame spread beyond the Tamil region during the Vaikom Satyagraha of 1924, a mass movement to demand that lower caste persons be given the right to use a public path in front of the famous Vaikom temple. AmbedkarBhirao Ramji Ambedkar, popularly known as Babasaheb, was the chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee and a champion of the Dalit and minority rights movement in India. In 1947 Ambedkar became the law minister of the government of India. He published the book Annihilation of Caste in 1936 which spoke against the caste system and Hindu orthodox religious leaders. He also formed the Independent Labour Party in the same year and contested the Bombay election to Central Legislative Assembly in 1937. GandhijiMohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as Mahatma Gandhi, Bapu, and Gandhiji. Gandhi led them in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km Dandi Salt March in 1930 and in calling for the British to quit India in 1942. Gandhi took leadership of the Congress in 1920 and in 1934 Gandhi resigned from Congress party membership. After Gandhi returned from the Second Round Table conference, he started a new satyagraha. He was arrested and imprisoned at the Yerwada Jail, Pune.