Consider the following pairs: 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
Statement 1 is Correct: The British Indian Association was established in October 1851 in Calcutta by the amalgamation of the Landholders' Society and the Bengal British India Society. Raja Radhakanta Deb was its first President, and Debendranath Tagore was its Secretary.
Statement 2 is Incorrect: Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty founded the Madras Native Association in 1852, which was the first organization in the Madras Presidency to lobby for Indian rights. The Madras Mahajana Sabha was established much later, in May 1884, by M. Veeraraghavachariar, G. Subramania Iyer, and P. Anandacharlu.
Statement 3 is Correct: The Indian Association (also known as the Indian National Association) was founded in 1876 by Surendranath Banerjee and Anandamohan Bose. It was the most important of the pre-Congress nationalist organizations and aimed to create a strong body of public opinion on political questions.