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UPSC 2018: He wrote biographies of Mazzini, Garibaldi, Shivaji and Shrikrishna; stayed in America for some time; and was also elected to the Central Assembly. He was
(a)Aurobindo Ghosh
(b)Bipin Chandra Pal
(c)Lala Lajpat Rai
(d)Motilal Nehru
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Not attemptedCorrect Answer: (c) Lala Lajpat Rai
Lala Lajpat Rai authored well-known biographies of Giuseppe Mazzini (1898), Giuseppe Garibaldi (1900), Shivaji (1901) and Shri Krishna (1904); he lived in the United States from 1914-1919 to garner support for India’s cause and, on returning, won election to the Central Legislative Assembly in 1920. The other options neither wrote all these works nor share this exact career profile.
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