The draft The Philosophy of the Bomb was written by Bhagwati Charan Vohra at whose request and after a full discussion with him?
- (a)Ram Prasad Bismil
- (b)Sukhdev
- (c)Rajguru
- (d)Chandrashekhar Azad
Correct — D, Chandrashekhar Azad. In January 1930 Azad was the commander of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association and the senior revolutionary still at large. When Gandhiji condemned the attempt to blow up the Viceroy's train in his article 'The Cult of the Bomb', it was Azad who wanted a reasoned reply put out in the HSRA's name, and Bhagwati Charan Vohra drafted 'The Philosophy of the Bomb' at his request and after full discussion with him. The manifesto was released on 26 January 1930 and defended revolutionary action as a political philosophy rather than mere violence.
- (a)Ram Prasad Bismil — Bismil led the older Hindustan Republican Association and the Kakori action of 1925, but he was hanged in December 1927 — more than two years before this manifesto was written.
- (b)Sukhdev — Sukhdev Thapar was a central HSRA figure, but he had been arrested in 1929 and was facing the Lahore Conspiracy Case in jail when the manifesto was drafted; the initiative came from the leader still underground.
- (c)Rajguru — Rajguru too was arrested in 1929 and was a co-accused in the Lahore Conspiracy Case; he was an executor of actions rather than the man who commissioned the HSRA's ideological statement.
'The Philosophy of the Bomb' was the HSRA's answer to Gandhiji in the argument over means. After the bomb thrown at the Viceroy Lord Irwin's train in December 1929, Gandhiji wrote 'The Cult of the Bomb' in Young India condemning revolutionary violence; the HSRA replied that its actions were not terrorism for its own sake but a considered political programme aimed at a free and socialist India. The reply matters historically because it shows the revolutionaries thinking in terms of ideology and mass revolution, not only of guns.
Solve this by the calendar, not by fame. The manifesto belongs to January 1930; ask who among the four was both alive and free then. Bismil was hanged in 1927; Sukhdev and Rajguru were already in custody in the Lahore Conspiracy Case; only Azad was still underground, and he led the HSRA until his death at Alfred Park, Allahabad, in February 1931. Azad also carries an MP link the commission likes — he was born at Bhabra in the Jhabua region of what is now Madhya Pradesh.
- 'The Philosophy of the Bomb' was issued in the name of the HSRA on 26 January 1930, drafted by Bhagwati Charan Vohra at Chandrashekhar Azad's request
- It answered Gandhiji's article 'The Cult of the Bomb' (Young India, January 1930), written after the attempt on the Viceroy's train in December 1929
- The Hindustan Republican Association was reorganised as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association in 1928 at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi, with Azad as its commander-in-chief
- Bhagwati Charan Vohra died in May 1930 in a bomb accident on the bank of the Ravi near Lahore
- Chandrashekhar Azad, born at Bhabra (now in Alirajpur district, Madhya Pradesh, carved out of Jhabua in 2008), shot himself at Alfred Park, Allahabad, in February 1931 rather than be taken alive
- Assuming every HSRA text was written by Bhagat Singh — he was in jail through 1930, where he wrote 'Why I am an Atheist'
- Picking Ram Prasad Bismil out of familiarity, forgetting he was executed in 1927
- Confusing the HSRA's 1930 manifesto with Gandhiji's article 'The Cult of the Bomb', which it was written to rebut
MPPSC asks who wrote or commissioned a named text, and returns often to Chandrashekhar Azad because of his Madhya Pradesh birth; UPSC prefers matching a conspiracy or organisation to its leader, or placing events in the right sequence.
Match List I with List II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists: List I I. Chittagong Armoury Raid II. Kakori Conspiracy III. Lahore Conspiracy IV. Ghadar Party List II A) Lala Hardayal B) Jatin Das C) Surya Sen D) Ram Prasad Bismil E) Vasudev Phadke Codes:
- (a) I–C, II–D, III–A, IV–E
- (b) I–D, II–C, III–B, IV–E
- (c) I–C, II–D, III–B, IV–A
- (d) I–B, II–D, III–C, IV–A
Answer(c) I–C, II–D, III–B, IV–A
The same attribution skill — tying a revolutionary action or text to the right person; it pairs Kakori with Ram Prasad Bismil, the distractor MPPSC uses here.
'Abhinav Bharat' a secret society of revolutionaries was organised by
- (a) Khudiram Bose
- (b) V. D. Savarkar
- (c) Prafulla Chaki
- (d) Bhagat Singh
Answer(b) V. D. Savarkar
Same family of question — which revolutionary founded or authored what, with the most famous name in the list planted as the trap.
- practice — not a real PYQ
'The Philosophy of the Bomb' (1930) was issued by the HSRA in reply to which article by Mahatma Gandhi?
- (a)The Cult of the Bomb
- (b)The Doctrine of the Sword
- (c)The Great Sentinel
- (d)Hind Swaraj
Answer(a) The Cult of the Bomb — published in Young India after the December 1929 attempt on the Viceroy's train.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Hindustan Republican Association was reorganised as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association in 1928 at a meeting held in:
- (a)Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
- (b)Kanpur
- (c)Lahore
- (d)Allahabad
Answer(a) Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi — the addition of 'Socialist' marked the shift towards an explicitly socialist goal.