UPSC Previous Year Question | Prelims GS | 2019

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?

  1. 1 only
  2. 1 and 2 only
  3. 2 and 3 only
  4. 1, 2 and 3

Answer

Correct Answer

1, 2 and 3

Explanation

All three pairs are correct. Gandhi founded the All India Anti-Untouchability League in 1932 (later renamed Harijan Sevak Sangh); the All India Kisan Sabha was formed in 1936 with Swami Sahajanand Saraswati as its first president; and the Self-Respect Movement was launched by E. V. Ramaswami Naicker (Periyar) in 1925.

Topics: history, modern india, movements/organisations and their leaders, social and peasant movements