QUESTION

Hard

Modern History

Prelims 2017

Consider the following pairs:

  1. Radhakanta Deb: First President of the British Indian Association
  2. Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty: Founder of the Madras Mahajana Sabha
  3. Surendranath Banerjee: Founder of the Indian Association Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?

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Explanation

Pair 1 is correctly matched. The British Indian Association was established in October 1851. The President of the first committee of this organisation was Raja Radhakanta Deb, while Debendranath Tagore was its secretary. The newspaper of this society was Hindu patriot which adopted a strongly critical political tone. It was formed by the amalgamation of the Landholders? Society and the Bengal British India Society.

Pair 2 is incorrectly matched. The first organisation in the Madras Presidency to agitate for the rights of Indians was the Madras Native Association which was established by publicist Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty in 1852. This organisation did not survive for long and was eventually disbanded. In May 1884, M. Veeraraghavachariar, G. Subramania Iyer and P. Anandacharlu established the Madras Mahajana Sabha.

Pair 3 is correctly matched. The Indian National Association, also known as the Indian Association, was the first avowed nationalist organisation founded in British India by Surendranath Banerjee and Ananda Mohan Bose in 1876. The objectives of this Association were "promoting by every legitimate means the political, intellectual and material advancement of the people".

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