UPSC Prelims 2017 – Question 38

Here is Question No. 38 a part of our series on UPSC Prelims 2017

Q38. Consider the following pairs:

1. Radhakanta Deb- First President of the British Indian Association.
2. GazuluLakshminarasuChetty – Founder of the Madras Mahajana Sabha
3. Surendranath Banerjee – Founder of the Indian Association

Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?
a) 1 only
b) 1 and 3 only
c) 2 and 3 only
d) 1, 2 and

The correct answer is 1 and 3 only. 

• The British Indian Association 
• It was established in Calcutta in October 1851.  
• The British Indian Association’s first president was Raja Radha Kanta dev, and its secretary was Debendranath Tagore. Hence, Pair 1 is correctly matched. 

• The Madras Mahajana Sabha  
• It was established in May 1884.  
• M. Veeraraghavachariar, S. Ramaswami Mudaliar, and P. Anandacharlu founded it. Hence, Pair 2 is not correctly matched. 

• Indian Association  
• Surendranath Banerjee and Ananda Mohan Bose founded the Indian Association in 1876. Hence, Pair 3 is correctly matched. 
• The Indian Association was the first openly nationalist organisation to be established in British India.  
• The objectives of this Association were “promoting by every legitimate means the political, intellectual and material advancement of the people”. 

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