Q. Consider the following pairs:

Movement/OrganizationLeader
1.All India Anti-Untouchability LeagueMahatma Gandhi
2.All India Kisan SabhaSwami Sahajanand Saraswati
3.Self-Respect Movement NaickerE.V. Ramaswami

Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

  • 1 only
  • 1 and 2 only
  • 2 and 3 only
  • 1, 2 and 3

Answer: (d) 1, 2 and 3

Notes:
  • The All India Anti-Untouchability League was set up by Gandhi Ji in September 1932 for the eradication of untouchability in the society.
  • The All India Kisan Sabha, a peasant movement was founded by Swami Sahjanand Saraswati at the Lucknow session of INC in April 1936.
  • The Self-Respect Movement was started in Tamil Nadu in 1925 by E. V. Ramaswamy Naicker, who is also known as the ‘Father of the Dravidian Movement‘. It was a movement against the Brahmanical dominance in society.

Also Read: