Consider the following pairs:
|
Movement/Organization
|
Leader
|
|
1. All India Anti-Untouchability League
|
Mahatma Gandhi
|
|
2. All India Kisan Sabha
|
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
|
|
3. Self-Respect Movement
|
E. V. Ramaswami Naicker
|
Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
This questions was previously asked in
UPSC CSP Previous Year Paper (2019)
1 and 2 only
Incorrect Answer2 and 3 only
Incorrect Answer1, 2 and 3
Correct AnswerExplanation:
Gandhiji set up a new body to better organize the campaign for the amelioration of the untouchables' condition in October 1932. It was first named the All India Anti-Untouchability League and later renamed the Harijan Sevak Sangh. Gandhi started publishing a weekly journal called "Harijan" on 11 February 1933 from Yerwada Jail during British rule. Hence pair 1 is correctly matched.
All India Kisan Sabha (All India Peasants Union, also known as the Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha), was the name of the peasants front of the undivided Communist Party of India, an important peasant movement formed by Sahajanand Saraswati in 1936.
"Self Respect Movement was founded in 1925 by S. Ramanathan who invited E. V. Ramasamy (also called as Periyar by his devoted followers) to head the movement in Tamil Nadu, India against Brahminism.
By: Abhipedia ProfileResourcesReport error