UPSC History Indian National Movement Question Bank Modern History & Indian National Movement - I

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    Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya was the founder/one of the founders of which of the following?
    1. Banaras Hindu University
    2. Bharat Scouts
    3. A newspaper named 'Leader'
    4. Congress Nationalist Party
    Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

    A)  1, 2 and 3 only 

    B)  1, 3 and 4 only

    C)  1 and 3 only    

    D)  1, 2, 3 and 4

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

     Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya was the founder ofBanaras Hindu University (BHU) at Varanasi in 1916, of which he also remained the Vice Chancellor till 1919-1938. He was one of the founders of Scouting in India. He also founded a highly influential, English- newspaper named "The Leader', published from Allahabad in 1909. The Congress Nationalist Party was a political party in British India. It was founded by Madan Mohan Malaviya and Madhav Shrihari Aney in 1934 in protest against the Communal Award.


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