Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist movement

Question:

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 Surendranath Benerjee
(D) Bipin Chandra Pal and Mahatma Gandhi

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

(A), (B) only

(B), (C) only

(C), (D) only

(D), (A) only

Correct Answer:

(A), (B) only

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (1) → (A), (B) only

(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal
(B) Lala Lajpat Rai and Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Surendranath Benerjee
(D) Bipin Chandra Pal and Mahatma Gandhi

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