QUESTION

GS

Hard

Modern History

Prelims 2021

With reference to Madanapalle of Andhra Pradesh, which one of the following statements is correct?

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Explanation

  • Option (A) is incorrect: Pingali Venkayya designed the tricolour Indian National Flag, but he presented it to Mahatma Gandhi at the INC session in Bezwada (now Vijayawada), not Madanapalle.

  • Option (B) is incorrect: Pattabhi Sitaramaiah played an important political role in Andhra but did not lead the Quit India Movement of the Andhra region from Madanapalle.

  • Option (C) is correct: Rabindranath Tagore stayed at Theosophical College, Madanapalle, in 1919. During this visit, he translated Jana Gana Mana from Bengali into English as “The Morning Song of India.” This is the historically significant connection between Madanapalle and the National Anthem.

  • Option (D) is incorrect: The Theosophical Society was founded in New York in 1875 and later moved its headquarters to Adyar, Chennai in 1882. It was not set up in Madanapalle.

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