The draft The Philosophy of the Bomb was written by Bhagwati Charan Vohra at whose request and after a full discussion with him?

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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.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) 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 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 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.

Concept: '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.

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