Match List-I with List-II
| List-I | List-II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Leader | Movement | ||
| (A) | Bal Gangadhar Tilak | (I) | Punjab Nationalist Movement |
| (B) | Subhash Chandra Bose | (II) | Forward Bloc |
| (C) | Mahatma Gandhi | (III) | Home Rule Movement |
| (D) | Lala Lajpat Rai | (IV) | Civil Disobedience Movement |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A) - (III), (B) - (II), (C) - (IV), (D) - (I)
(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak — this matches (III) Home Rule Movement. Tilak set up the Indian Home Rule League at Belgaum in April 1916, a few months before Annie Besant founded hers, with the call “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it”.
(B) Subhash Chandra Bose — this matches (II) Forward Bloc. Bose formed the Forward Bloc in 1939, after he resigned as President of the Congress following his differences with Gandhiji.
(C) Mahatma Gandhi — this matches (IV) Civil Disobedience Movement. Gandhiji began it in 1930 with the Dandi March, breaking the salt law at Dandi on 6 April.
(D) Lala Lajpat Rai — this matches (I) Punjab Nationalist Movement. Known as “Punjab Kesari” (the Lion of Punjab), he led the national movement in Punjab; he died in 1928 after a police lathi charge on a protest against the Simon Commission in Lahore.