Consider the following statements about the early phase of the National Movement in India : 1. Ferozeshah Mehta, Badruddin Tyabji and others formed the Bombay Presidency Association. 2. Surendranath Banerjee and his group planned an Indian National Conference at Calcutta. 3. Allan Octavian Hume decided to create an all-India body as a rival to the above organisations to give vent to the grievances of the poor and marginalised Indians. How many of the above statements is/are correct?
- A.1
- B.2
- C.All
- D.None
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, 2. Statements 1 and 2 are correct, but statement 3 is not. Statement 1 is correct: the Bombay Presidency Association was founded in January 1885 by Pherozeshah Mehta, Badruddin Tyabji and K. T. Telang, and its members hosted the first session of the Indian National Congress in Bombay that December. Statement 2 is correct: Surendranath Banerjee and Ananda Mohan Bose, through the Indian Association of Calcutta, organised the Indian National Conference at Calcutta in 1883 and held its second session in December 1885, just as the Congress met in Bombay; the Conference later merged into the Congress. Statement 3 is wrong because Hume did not set up the Congress as a rival to these bodies. He worked with the leaders of these very associations, and the Congress grew out of their efforts to form a single national platform of educated Indians; it was not created to voice the grievances of the poor and marginalised. So option A (only one), option C (all three) and option D (none) are all wrong. Exam tip: Indian National Conference 1883 (Surendranath Banerjee); Bombay Presidency Association and the Congress, both 1885.
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