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As per the passage, from which place did Aurobindo Ghosh return to India in 1893?

Political Science · Indian Political Thought UGC NET October 2020 Political Science
Passage
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh was a renowned and important personality in the history of the Indian Resurgence and Indian nationalism. He was born on 15th August 1872 in Calcutta (Kolkata). He received his education in England and returned to India in 1893. Aurobindo's political career is divided into two periods, the first dating from his arrival in India and extending to his Ashram in Pondicherry. He was associated with a secret society of the Indian revolutionaries. He edited the newspaper Bande Mataram, which was founded in 1905. The Bande Mataram was almost unique in journalistic history in that it converted the mind of the people and prepared them for revolution. The Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and other ancient Hindu texts influenced Aurobindo's thought. He founded two weeklies, the Dharma in Bengali and the Karmayogin in English. In 1910 he left active politics and became a yogi. The Ideal of Human Unity, The Life Divine, The Human Cycle, Essays on the Gita, The Foundations of Indian Culture, The Future Poetry and works on Yoga and the Veda were the prominent works of Sri Aurobindo.
As per the passage, from which place did Aurobindo Ghosh return to India in 1893?
AKolkata
BBengal
CFrance
DEngland ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) England — The passage states that Aurobindo returned to India from England in 1893.
Explanation
The passage states that Aurobindo returned to India from England in 1893.
He had gone to England as a boy and was educated there, at St. Paul's School and King's College, Cambridge.
He cleared the Indian Civil Service examination but did not join the service.
On returning in 1893 he took up service in the princely state of Baroda.
Kolkata and Bengal were where he was born and later worked, not the place of his return journey.
France relates to Pondicherry, then a French settlement, where he later settled, not to 1893.
His English education shaped his command of Western thought, which he later fused with Indian philosophy.
After the partition of Bengal, Aurobindo joined the revolutionary Anushilan Samiti.

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