State PCS PYQPrelims 2024

BPSC – Combined Competitive Examination · வினா 34

Who wrote 'New Lamps for Old'?

  1. Surendranath Banerjee
  2. Aurobindo Ghosh
  3. Motilal Ghosh
  4. More than one of the above
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விடை: (B) Aurobindo Ghosh

விளக்கம்

'New Lamps for Old' was Aurobindo Ghosh's series attacking the Moderates' mendicant politics.

  • (A) தவறு

    Wrong: he was a Moderate leader, not the author.

  • (B) சரி

    Correct: Aurobindo's 1893–94 articles in Indu Prakash criticised the Moderates.

  • (C) தவறு

    Wrong: editor of Amrita Bazar Patrika, not the author.

  • (D) தவறு

    Wrong: only Aurobindo wrote it.