The Swadeshi Movement gave some big leaders. Identify them from the given options.
(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal
(B) Lala Lajpat Rai and Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(D) Bipin Chandra Pal and Mahatma Gandhi
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A), (B) only
The Swadeshi movement of 1905-07 threw up some towering leaders – Bal Gangadhar Tilak of Maharashtra, Bipin Chandra Pal of Bengal and Lala Lajpat Rai of Punjab, known together as “Lal, Bal and Pal”.
(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal Correct. Both are among the three leaders the movement threw up.
(B) Lala Lajpat Rai and Bal Gangadhar Tilak Correct. Both are among the three leaders the movement threw up.
(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Gopal Krishna Gokhale Incorrect. Tilak was a Swadeshi leader, but Gokhale belonged to the Moderates, who preferred a more gradual and persuasive approach to the militant opposition of these leaders.
(D) Bipin Chandra Pal and Mahatma Gandhi Incorrect. Pal was a Swadeshi leader, but Gandhiji returned to India only in January 1915, after two decades abroad.
NCERT (2026-27): “1. A Leader Announces Himself … The India that Mahatma Gandhi came back to in 1915 was rather different from the one that he had left in 1893. Although still a colony of the British, it was far more active in a political sense. The Indian National Congress now had branches in most major cities and towns. Through the Swadeshi movement of 1905-07 it had greatly broadened its appeal among the middle classes. That movement had thrown up some towering leaders – among them Bal Gangadhar Tilak 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.…” |