UPSC Prelims 2019 – Question 6

by Edukemy Team March 2, 2024

Here is Question No. 6 a part of our series on UPSC Prelims 2019

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

Answer: D

Pair 1 is correctly matched: Mahatma Gandhi set up All India Anti-Untouchability league in 1932 which later transformed into
Harijan Sevak Sangh. Gandhi advised that the activities of the League should be mainly directed towards the economic, social and educational improvement of the depressed classes rather than limiting it to the issue of temple entry and inter-dining. Henceforth, the word untouchable was replaced by Harijan.
Pair 2 is correctly matched: To spearhead peasant movements in colonial India, All India Kisan Sabha was formed in 1936, at the Lucknow session of the Congress, with Swami Sahajanand Saraswati as its first President. It later issued a Kisan manifesto that demanded the abolition of Zamindari and occupancy rights for all tenants. Under pressure from its socialist members and leaders, the Congress adopted an Agrarian Program in December 1936.
Pair 3 is correctly matched: Self-Respect Movement, started by E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker in Tamil Nadu in 1925, was a the dynamic social movement aimed at destroying the contemporary Hindu social order in its totality and creating a new, rational society without caste, religion, and God. It was an egalitarian movement that propagated the ideologies of breaking down the Brahminical hegemony, equal rights for the backward classes and women in the society and revitalization of the Dravidian languages like Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam.

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