NDA (II) 2021 General Ability Test · Question 72 of 149

Correct — A, It promoted a systematic study of India's past in the Bengali language. The Tattvabodhini Patrika was the journal of the Tattvabodhini Sabha, founded by Debendranath Tagore, and it encouraged a systematic, reasoned study of India's past through the medium of Bengali. It belonged to the nineteenth-century Bengal reform movement that used print in the vernacular to reach a wide readership, so the study it promoted was in Bengali, not through Sanskrit, Persian or Western sources.

• (b)It promoted a systematic study of India’s past through Sanskrit sources. — The journal worked in Bengali, the everyday language of its readers, rather than confining the study to Sanskrit sources.
• (c)It promoted a systematic study of India’s past through Persian sources. — Persian was the language of Mughal administration, not the medium of this Bengali reform journal.
• (d)It promoted a systematic study of India’s past through Western sources. — The Patrika drew on India's own past in Bengali; it was not primarily a study through Western sources.

In nineteenth-century Bengal, reformers used printed journals in the vernacular to spread new ideas. The Tattvabodhini Patrika, linked to Debendranath Tagore's Tattvabodhini Sabha, promoted a rational, systematic study of India's heritage in Bengali, reflecting the wider use of print for social and religious reform.

All four options share the same opening about a systematic study of India's past and differ only in the language or sources. Recalling that this was a Bengali reform journal aimed at ordinary readers points to Bengali, option (a).

• The Tattvabodhini Patrika was the journal of the Tattvabodhini Sabha.
• The Tattvabodhini Sabha was founded by Debendranath Tagore in 1839.
• The journal promoted a systematic study of India's past in Bengali.
• It was part of the Brahmo reform tradition that used vernacular print.

• Assuming a study of India's past must mean Sanskrit sources — this journal worked in Bengali.
• Confusing the medium, which was Bengali, with the classical or administrative languages such as Sanskrit and Persian.

Asked as a single-correct-statement test where only the language or medium differs across options.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The Tattvabodhini Sabha was founded by

  • (a)Raja Rammohan Roy
  • (b)Debendranath Tagore
  • (c)Keshab Chandra Sen
  • (d)Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

  Answer(b) Debendranath Tagore.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The Tattvabodhini Patrika was published mainly in which language?

  • (a)Sanskrit
  • (b)Persian
  • (c)Bengali
  • (d)English

  Answer(c) Bengali.