Consider the following pairs : Association Founder1. Indian Republican Army - Bina Das2. Bharatha Matha Society - Ajit Singh3. Anushilan Samiti - Sachindranath Sanyal4. Mitra Mela - Vinayak Damodar SavarkarHow many pairs given above is/are correctly matched ?a)Only one pairb)Only two pairsc)Only three pairsd)All four pairsCorrect answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?

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The Indian Republican Army was a short-lived revolutionary army that was created by Surya Sen and the members of the Anushilan Samiti in 1930. The army was created with an aim of liberating the city of Chittagong and the Bengal Presidency from British rule. Sen led a party of revolutionaries in an attack on the Chittagong armoury police and auxiliary force arsenal. The complex strategy involved stealing weapons from the armoury and destroying the city's communications infrastructure in order to cut off Chittagong from the rest of the British Raj. They were unable to seize the munitions, though. A few days later, one of the British Indian Army units trapped a sizable portion of the rebel party in the neighbouring Jalalabad Hills. Twelve revolutionaries lost their lives in the subsequent battle. Bina Das was an Indian revolutionary and nationalist from West Bengal. She was born to social worker and educationist parents, who were deeply involved in the Brahmo Samaj and the freedom struggle. Das was a member of Chhatri Sangha, a semi-revolutionary organisation for women in Kolkata. So, Pair (1) is not correct.

After his release from the Mandalay prison, Sardar Ajit Singh attended the Surat session of the Congress and went on to form a revolutionary organisation called the Bharat Mata Society in 1907. He later launched the Bharat Mata Book Agency, which, because of its strident anti-government, propagandist publications, attracted the attention of the British government. Though the government seized many of the publications, they remained highly popular among the people. Many young revolutionaries like Sufi Amba Prasad, Zia-ul-Haq, Lal Chand Falak, Din Dayal Banke, Kishan Singh and Lala Ram Saran Das were among the members of this clandestine organisation. So, Pair (2) is correct.

Anushilan Samiti was one of the secret revolutionary organisations operating in Bengal in the first quarter of the 20th century. Pramathanath Mitra, a Barrister and a leading figure in the revolutionary movement of late 19th and early 20th century Bengal founded the Calcutta Anushilan Samiti in 1902. Jatindranath Banerjee, a young Bengali who took military training in the army of the Maharaja of Baroda and Barindrakumar ghosh, the younger brother of Aurobindo Ghosh, assisted him. So, Pair (3) is not correct.

The Abhinav Bharat Mandir (Young India Society) was founded by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and his brother Ganesh Damodar Savarkar in the year 1904, as a secret organization during the Indian War of Independence. When Vinayak Savarkar was a student of Fergusson College in Pune, it was initially established in Nashik under the name "Mitra Mela". This led to some assassinations of British officials, after which the Savarkar brothers were convicted and imprisoned. It was one of the many (revolutionary organizations) involved in Maharashtra that believed in overthrowing the armed British rule. In 1904, at a meeting attended by 200 members from various cities in Maharashtra, freedom fighter Vinayak Savarkar named Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy and named it Abhinav Bharat. So, Pair (4) is correct.

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Explanation:

Indian Republican Army - Bina Das
- This pair is incorrectly matched. Bina Das was associated with the Chittagong Armoury Raid and not the Indian Republican Army.

Bharatha Matha Society - Ajit Singh
- This pair is correctly matched. Ajit Singh was one of the founders of the Bharatha Matha Society, which was a revolutionary organization in India.

Anushilan Samiti - Sachindranath Sanyal
- This pair is correctly matched. Sachindranath Sanyal was one of the founders of Anushilan Samiti, a revolutionary organization in Bengal.

Mitra Mela - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
- This pair is incorrectly matched. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was associated with Abhinav Bharat and not Mitra Mela.

Therefore, only two pairs given above are correctly matched - Bharatha Matha Society with Ajit Singh and Anushilan Samiti with Sachindranath Sanyal.

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