Question
Write True or False
- Bharat Sabha was established in 1836.
- ‘Bharat Mata’ was a famous painting drawn in the backdrop of Sepoy Mutiny.
- ‘Bangtabhasa Prakashika Sabha’ was not the first political organisation.
- ‘Anandamath’ was a nationalist novel.
- 18th Century is called the age of Associations.
- Young man Gora by birth was an Indian.
Answer
- False; On 26th July 1876, Surendranath Banerjee formed the Bharat Sabha or Indian Association.
- False; The painting ‘Bharat Mata’ was not drawn in the backdrop of the Sepoy Mutiny. It was painted in 1905 by Abanindranath Tagore as a symbol of Indian nationalism during the Swadeshi Movement, which was a movement for Indian independence against British colonial rule.
- True
- False; Anandamath was the first historical novel by Bankim Chandra.
- False; 19th Century is called the age of Associations.
- False; Gora was not an Indian at all, but actually an Irishman by birth.