![]() Sobani and Banker, helming the agency’s managerial affairs, asked Gandhi to take over the responsibility of The Bombay Chronicle. But, when the paper had to shut down its operations due to government pressure, the duo suggested Gandhi take over their English weekly Young India to carry on the spirit of the freedom struggle. The British government in pre-independent India suppressed the daily The Bombay Chronicle, which had a nationalist perspective and deported its pro-movement British editor B. This was playing out during the peak of the anti-Rowlatt Act movement in 1919. Incidentally, the Home Rule League of America was also bringing out a monthly with the same name, which had no connection with the Indian Young India. ![]() The first opportunity for Gandhi to run magazines in India arrived in 1919 when Umar Sobani and Shankarlal Banker, two young supporters of Home Rule League that fought for bringing self-rule in India, offered him the editorship of their weekly Young India. ![]()
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