Match List-I with List-II
| List-I | List-II | ||
| (A) | Led the Quit India Movement as a young leader | (I) | Gopal Krishna Gokhale |
| (B) | Political Guru of Gandhiji | (II) | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| (C) | Mahatma Gandhi’s Biographer | (III) | Jai Prakash Narayan |
| (D) | Extremist leader | (IV) | D.G. Tendulkar |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
(A) Led the Quit India Movement as a young leader — this matches (III) Jai Prakash Narayan. While Gandhiji was jailed, younger activists organised strikes and sabotage; particularly active in the underground resistance were socialist members of the Congress, such as Jayaprakash Narayan.
(B) Political Guru of Gandhiji — this matches (I) Gopal Krishna Gokhale. Among the Moderates was Gandhiji’s acknowledged political mentor, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, on whose advice Gandhiji spent a year travelling around British India.
(C) Mahatma Gandhi’s Biographer — this matches (IV) D.G. Tendulkar. His biographer D.G. Tendulkar writes how Gandhiji went round hospitals and refugee camps in September and October 1947.
(D) Extremist leader — this matches (II) Lala Lajpat Rai. Lala Lajpat Rai of Punjab, with Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal (“Lal, Bal and Pal”), advocated militant opposition to colonial rule, unlike the Moderates.
Note: The term ‘Extremist’ is not used in the NCERT book (2026-27); the book says that Lal, Bal and Pal “advocated militant opposition to colonial rule”, while the “Moderates” preferred a more gradual and persuasive approach.
NCERT (2026-27): “1. A Leader Announces Himself … That movement had thrown up some towering leaders – among them Bal Gangadhar T ilak of Maharashtra, Bipin Chandra Pal of Bengal, and Lala Lajpat Rai of Punjab. The three were known as ‘Lal, Bal and Pal’, the alliteration conveying the all-India character of their struggle, since their native provinces were very distant from one another. Where these leaders advocated militant opposition to colonial rule, there was a group of ‘Moderates’ who preferred a more gradual and persuasive approach. Among these Moderates was Gandhiji’s acknowledged political mentor, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, as well as Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who, like Gandhiji, was a lawyer of Gujarati extraction trained in London.… 4. Quit India … Although Gandhiji was jailed at once, younger activists organised strikes and acts of sabotage all over the country. Particularly active in the underground resistance were socialist members of the Congress, such as Jayaprakash Narayan.… 5. The Last Heroic Days … The freedom he had struggled so long for had come at an unacceptable price, with a nation divided and Hindus and Muslims at each other’s throats. Through September and October, writes his biographer D.G. Tendulkar, Gandhiji ‘went round hospitals and refugee camps giving consolation to distressed people…” |