UPSC Prelims 2017 Question:

Consider the following pairs

Sl. No.	Heading		Heading
1.	Radhakanta Deb	:	First President of the British Indian Association
2.	Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty	:	Founder of the Madras Mahajana Sabha
3.	Surendranath Banerjee	:	Founder of the Indian Association

Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?

Explanation: 

• • Radhakanta Deb was the first President of the British Indian Association established in 1851. So, pair 1 is correctly matched.
    • In 1851, both the Landholders’ Society and the Bengal British India Society merged into the British Indian Association.
  • Madras Mahajan Sabha was founded in 1884 by P. Ananda Charlu, S Ramaswami Mudaliar and M. Veeraraghavachariar. So, point 2 is not correctly matched.
    
    

• Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty (1806–1868) founded the Madras Native Association, one of the earliest Indian political associations, and the Indian-owned newspaper in Madras, The Crescent.
  
  

• Indian Association was founded by Surendranath Banerjee in 1976. So, point 3 is correctly matched.

• • The Indian Association of Calcutta (also known as the Indian National Association) superseded the Indian League and was founded in 1876 by younger nationalists of Bengal led by Surendranath Banerjea and Ananda Mohan Bose, who were getting discontented with the conservative and pro-landlord policies of the British Indian Association.
    
    

Therefore, option (2) is the correct answer.

Subject: History | Important Personalities