Explanation:

C.R. Das served as the Indian National Congress president for a session and co-founded the Swaraj Party, but almost over a century later, he is remembered as ‘Deshbandhu’, or ‘friend of the nation’, as the people of his times affectionately called him. Das’ political career lasted only six years, but it came after he jumped into India’s freedom struggle as a lawyer and helped many revolutionaries. x Das completed his graduation from Presidency College in 1890. The same year, he went to England to qualify for the ICS, which was dominated by the British. Unfortunately, he failed. As a result, he opted to join the legal profession. Das practiced law at The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in London in England. While in England, Das campaigned for Dadabhai Naoroji to help win a seat in the House of Commons from Central Finsbury. Naoroji became the first Asian in 1892 to become a part of Westminster. Two years later, Das came back to India and started practising as a barrister at Calcutta High Court. x As a lawyer, Das defended Indians who were accused of political offenses. He appeared in defence of freedom fighters Brahmabandhab Upadhyay and Bhupendranath Datta who were charged with sedition. x In 1908, Das attained widespread fame when he was successfully able to defend Aurobindo Ghose in the Alipore Bomb Case — a bomb explosion in Muzaffarpur had killed two women and Ghose was the main accused. Das, with meticulous handling of the case, concluded his address in the Calcutta High Court with an impassioned appeal and got Ghose acquitted. x He was a believer in the ‘Swadeshi’ idea and completely rejected the notion of development as promoted by Western powers. In the Calcutta session, he put forward a plan for village reconstruction, which was to entail steps such as the establishment of local self-government, and co-operative credit societies as well as re-starting the cottage industry. x Das also brought out a newspaper called 'Forward' and later changed its name to Liberty to fight the British Raj. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was the editor of this newspaper. C.R. was also a political mentor of Subhas Chandra Bose. Hence, option (c) is the correct answer.