Bhaskar Pandurang Tarkhadkar (1816–1847) was an Indian journalist and an open critic of colonial British rule.
He used the freedom of Press by Charles Metcalfe to write a series of eight letters called 'epistles' in the Bombay Gazette from July to October 1841.
He criticised the destruction of indigenous industries in Maharashtra and the one way duty free trade which allowed Britain to sell goods in Indian markets for cheap.
He wrote, "Your hearts are as black as your skins are white and your souls are impure in proportion with the cleanliness of your outward appearance."
He also criticised James Mill's work History of British India as unscientific, prejudiced in the highest degree.
He said Mill had never even visited India and the armchair historian has the perfidity to denigrate Indian people with his own fantasy.
Tarkhadkar 's writings form an essential part of India's fight against British colonialism, and his methods were carried forward by younger writers like Bal Gangadhar Tilak.