Multiple choice

Who among the following was associated with the newspaper 'The Commonweal'?

  1. John Bright

  2. Shyamji Krishna Gokhale

  3. William Wedderburn

  4. Annie Besant
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Explanation

Annie Besant, the Irish-born theosophist and Indian independence activist, founded and edited 'The Commonweal' newspaper in 1914 as part of her Home Rule movement propaganda. It was a weekly journal advocating for self-rule and became an important voice for the Home Rule League. John Bright (option A) was a British statesman unrelated to this paper. Shyamji Krishna Gokhale (option B) appears to be a conflation - there was Shyamji Krishna Verma (Indian revolutionary) and Gopal Krishna Gokhale (moderate leader), neither connected to 'The Commonweal'. William Wedderburn (option C) was a retired civil servant who helped found the Indian National Congress, not this newspaper.

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