Explanation:

Explanation :

• Newspapers during the freedom struggle in India were an important source of mass communication throughout the country. Leaders like Devendra Nath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, etc., used the newspaper to spread awareness among the masses. The impact of these journals and newspapers was limited to towns and cities and reached remote villages.
• The newspapers and journals advocating revolutionary activity included Sandhya and Yugantar in Bengal, Mahratta, Kal in Maharashtra.
• Bramabandhab Upadhyay popularised Swaraj and the Swadeshi Movement through his newspaper Sandhya and Yugantar (brought out by a group associated with Barindrakumar Ghosh).
• In 1898, Shivram Paranjape started 'Kal' newspaper in which he criticized the policies of Britishers and advocated the religious, social, political, historical topics logically and firmly. The newspaper overtook the Kesari of Tilak in terms of popularity.

• The Mahratta was a weekly English newspaper started by freedom fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak alongside Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, M.B. Namjoshi, Vamanrao Apte and Gopal Ganesh Agarkar from Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay) in Maharashtra. First published on 2nd of January, 1881 it came along with its brother organ the Kesari, another Marathi newspaper by Tilak. Newspapers like Mahratta were set in the background of the Extremist movement of the nationalist struggle for independece.

• The Mahratta newspaper along with its Marathi counterpart were aimed at stirring the national conscience of the people and succeeded in their motive of awakening the people to the real evils of the British rule.