Arrange the following Revolutionary Organisations in Chronological order:
(A) Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
(B) Abhinav Bharat
(C) Hindustan Republican Association
(D) Indian Independence League
(E) Ghadar Party
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (B), (E), (D), (C), (A)
Note: The given answer is as per the official NTA Answer Key. However, none of the given options appears to be correct. The correct sequence is (B), (E), (C), (A), (D), which is not there in any of the options, because the Indian Independence League was set up in 1942, after the other four organisations, as explained below. In NTA’s order, the League of 1942 arrives before the HRA of 1924. History does not run on time travel.
(B) Abhinav Bharat — 1904, founded by V.D. Savarkar and his brother Ganesh Savarkar at Nashik, growing out of their Mitra Mela of 1899.
(E) Ghadar Party — 1913, founded in San Francisco by Indians in North America, led by Lala Har Dayal and Sohan Singh Bhakna.
(C) Hindustan Republican Association — 1924, founded by Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Ram Prasad Bismil and others; its members carried out the Kakori train action of 1925.
(A) Hindustan Socialist Republican Association — 1928, when Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh and others renamed the HRA at Delhi and added ‘Socialist’ to its aims.
(D) Indian Independence League — 1942, organised by Rash Behari Bose among Indians in South-East Asia (Tokyo and Bangkok conferences); Subhas Chandra Bose took over its leadership in 1943.