UPSC Prelims 2018 Question:

He wrote biographies of Mazzini, Garibaldi, Shivaji and Shrikrishna; stayed in America for some time; and was also elected to the Central Assembly. He was:

Explanation:

• Lala Lajpat Rai was a prolific writer and authored several works like – “Unhappy India”, “Young India: An Interpretation”, “History of Arya Samaj”, “England’s Debt to India” and a series of popular biographies on Mazzini, Garibaldi and Swami Dayanand.
  
  
• He founded the Punjab National Bank, the Lakshmi Insurance Company and the Servants of the Peoples Society at Lahore.
  
  
• During World War I, Lajpat Rai lived in the United States, where he founded the Indian Home Rule League of America (1917) in New York City.
  
  
• He returned to India in early 1920, and later that year he led a special session of the Congress Party that launched Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi’s Non-Cooperation movement. Imprisoned from 1921 to 1923, he was elected to the legislative assembly on his release.
  
  

Therefore, option (3) is the correct answer.

Subject: History | Important Personalities