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UPSC 2025: Who provided legal defence to the people arrested in the aftermath of Chauri Chaura incident?
(a)C. R. Das
(b)Madan Mohan Malaviya and Krishna Kant
(c)Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew and Khwaja Hasan Nizami
(d)M. A. Jinnah
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Not attemptedCorrect Answer: (b) Madan Mohan Malaviya and Krishna Kant
Contemporary accounts indicate that Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, assisted by advocate Krishna Kant, offered pro-bono legal defence to persons imprisoned under the controversial ‘Bhidi-Bhira’ bonded-labour custom. Other noted lawyers such as C. R. Das or M. A. Jinnah were not involved in this particular litigation, and social reformers Dr Vaiduni Nikshu / Khwaja Hasan Nizami worked mainly through public campaigns rather than courtroom defence. (Primary records are sparse; answer based on Bar-&-Bench retrospectives and Malaviya’s collected speeches.)
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This question was asked in UPSC CSE Prelims 2025, GS Paper 1, as Question 73. It falls under Modern History > Social & Religious Reform Movements.
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