History · Rise of Indian Nationalism
UGC NET December 2019 History
Who commented in 1913 the following words? 'No Indian could have started the Indian National Congress… If the founder of the Congress had not been a great Englishman, such was the distrust of political agitation in those days that the authorities would have at once found some way or the other to suppress the movement.'
APherozeshah M. Mehta
BBipin Chandra Pal
CBal Gangadhar Tilak
DGopal Krishna Gokhale ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale — Gopal Krishna Gokhale commented thus, so the answer is Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
Explanation
★Gopal Krishna Gokhale commented thus, so the answer is Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
★Gokhale was a social reformer and a leader of the Indian National Congress.
★He founded the Servants of India Society.
★He was the political guru of Mahatma Gandhi.
★He held that the authorities would have suppressed the Congress had an Indian founded it.
★He died in 1915, so the speaker of these 1913 words was Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
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