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=Rashtramat= Rashtramat [राष्ट्रमत—roughly, The Nation’s Opinion] was a Marathi daily newspaper published in Bombay between 1908 and 1910. It is unrelated to other, later, papers of the same name—for example, the Rashtramat published in Goa between 1964 and 2004.

Rashtramat was started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak to bring a Nationalist viewpoint to Bombay. The paper was owned by the National Publishing Company, a public company launched by Tilak in February 1908. The first issue appeared June 29, 1908, the same day Tilak’s sedition trial began in Bombay for an article he wrote in Kesari, his newspaper in Poona.

After Tilak was transported to Burma to serve a six-year sentence, Rashtramat floundered and was rescued temporarily by Gangadharrao Deshpande, a Tilak lieutenant from Belgaum. Deshpande would later become a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, as would two people, Kaka Kalelkar and Swami Anand, who helped Deshpande with Rashtramat.

Rashtramat folded in 1910 when it could not meet the security bond demanded under the Indian Press Act, 1910, a new law “better to control the Press” which had been passed earlier in the year.