History · Rise of Indian Nationalism
UGC NET June 2019 History
Who among the following wrote that the Congress was born through a conspiracy to forestall a popular uprising in India and that the bourgeois leaders were a party to it?
AR.P. Dutt
BR.C. Dutt ✓ Correct
CJ.P. Narayan
DB.G. Tilak
Correct answer: (B) R.C. Dutt — R.C. Dutt wrote this, so the answer is R.C. Dutt.
Explanation
★R.C. Dutt wrote this, so the answer is R.C. Dutt.
★This idea is linked to the safety-valve theory of the Congress's origin.
★The theory holds that the Congress was founded to forestall a popular uprising.
★R.C. Dutt expressed the view that the bourgeois leaders were a party to such a design.
★The safety-valve theory was popularised through A.O. Hume's role in the Congress's founding.
★So the writer of this statement was R.C. Dutt.
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