SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 12 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 24 of 100

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Who among the following freedom fighters is known as ‘Deshbandhu’?

(a)Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(b)Chittaranjan Das
(c)Subhas Chandra Bose
(d)Bhagat Singh

Answer

Why

Correct — B. Deshbandhu, friend of the country, is the title carried by Chittaranjan Das.

He was a leading Calcutta barrister who appeared for the defence in the Alipore Bomb Case, gave up his practice for Non-Cooperation, and in 1923 founded the Swaraj Party with Motilal Nehru to contest the legislative councils.

The title fixes the man, so option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Gopal Krishna Gokhale — Gopal Krishna Gokhale founded the Servants of India Society and is remembered as Gandhi's political guru. Deshbandhu is not his title.
(c)
Subhas Chandra Bose — Subhas Chandra Bose is Netaji. He was in fact a protege of C. R. Das in Calcutta, which is what makes this the strongest wrong option here.
(d)
Bhagat Singh — Bhagat Singh is Shaheed-e-Azam. His generation and his method both sit apart from Das's constitutional politics.

Concept

Indian nationalist history is heavily titled, and SSC uses those titles as compact identity questions.

Chittaranjan Das stands at a specific turn in that history. When Congress split over whether to boycott the councils created by the 1919 reforms, he and Motilal Nehru broke with the no-changers and formed the Swaraj Party in 1923 to enter those councils and obstruct them from within.

He died in 1925, early enough that much of his influence runs through the men he trained, Subhas Chandra Bose among them.

Titles are not official awards. They were conferred by public usage and the press, which is why one leader can carry several and why the pairing has to be memorised.

Key facts

Deshbandhu means friend of the country and is the title of Chittaranjan Das.
C. R. Das and Motilal Nehru founded the Swaraj Party in 1923 to contest and enter the legislative councils.
C. R. Das appeared for the defence in the Alipore Bomb Case.
Subhas Chandra Bose regarded C. R. Das as his political mentor.

Study next

Titles of national leaders: Netaji, Lok Nayak, Punjab Kesari and DeenbandhuThe Swarajist entry into the councils and the no-changer versus pro-changer splitThe Alipore Bomb Case and the early revolutionary trials in Bengal

Common traps

Deshbandhu and Deenbandhu are one syllable apart and belong to different men.
Bose's closeness to Das makes his name feel right for any Bengal-linked title.

Titles and authorship recur as identity items.

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