'New Lamps for Old' was a series of articles (1893-94) that criticized the Congress for being out of touch with the 'proletariat'. Who was the author

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Correct Answer - Option 1 : Aurobindo Ghose

The correct answer is Aurobindo Ghose.

"New Lamps for Old" was written by Shri Aurobindo Ghose and published in 1893.
He was a philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist of India.
He criticized Moderate politics through a series of articles.
From 1902 to 1910 Aurobindo took part in the struggle to free India from the British Raj (rule).
As a result of his political activities, he was imprisoned in 1908.
In Pondichéry he founded a community of spiritual seekers, which took shape as the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1926.
The evolutionary philosophy underlying Aurobindo’s integral yoga is explored in his main prose work, The Life Divine (1939).
His major works include Essays on the Gita (1922), Collected Poems and Plays (1942), The Synthesis of Yoga (1948), The Human Cycle (1949), The Ideal of Human Unity (1949), Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol (1950), and On the Veda (1956).

A.O. Hume was a political figure and administrator.
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He was an ornithologist and wrote many volumes about his experiences in List of Birds in India.
He also authored Agricultural Reform in India, among his many works, apart from writing poetry.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale was an Indian social reformer, educator, politician, president of the Indian National Congress, and Mahatma Gandhi's political guru.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale was one of the wisest moderate leaders of the Indian National Congress.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale propagated the idea of self-rule in India and became the voice of Indians who wanted freedom from British rule.
In 1905, he was elected as the President of the Indian National Congress.
He established the 'Servants of India Society" in 1905 with the aim of providing training to the people to devote themselves to the service of India as national missionaries.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak was an Indian scholar, mathematician, philosopher, and ardent nationalist.
He worked to lay the foundation for India’s independence by building his own defiance of British rule into a national movement.
He founded the Indian Home Rule League in 1914 and served as president of it.
In 1916 he concluded the Lucknow Pact with Mohammed Ali Jinnah, which provided for Hindu-Muslim unity in the nationalist struggle.