In April 1908, Khudiram Bose, together with another revolutionary, carried out…
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In April 1908, Khudiram Bose, together with another revolutionary, carried out an assault on a carriage, targeting Kingsford, the District and Sessions Judge at Muzaffarpur. Who was his associate in this operation?
Answer: C. Prafulla Chaki — Concept: The early revolutionary stream of the Indian freedom struggle (roughly 1905-1911) grew out of the anti-Partition agitation in Bengal. Secret…
- A.
Bhagat Singh
- B.
Aurobindo Ghosh
- C.
Prafulla Chaki
- D.
Rajendra Lahiri
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Correct answer: C
Concept: The early revolutionary stream of the Indian freedom struggle (roughly 1905-1911) grew out of the anti-Partition agitation in Bengal. Secret societies such as the Anushilan Samiti and the Jugantar group trained young volunteers to strike at individual British officials regarded as instruments of repression. Fixing who took part in a particular action therefore means matching a revolutionary's organisation, region and active years against that event.
Application to this question:
Douglas Kingsford, as Chief Presidency Magistrate of Calcutta, had ordered harsh sentences and floggings for young nationalists, so the Bengal revolutionaries marked him for attack; the government moved him to Muzaffarpur in Bihar as district and sessions judge.
Two volunteers of the Jugantar circle, Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki, were sent to Muzaffarpur and watched Kingsford's daily movements.
On the night of 30 April 1908 they threw a bomb at a carriage leaving the European Club, believing Kingsford was inside it.
The carriage in fact carried Mrs Pringle Kennedy and her daughter, both of whom died; Kingsford himself was unhurt.
Prafulla Chaki shot himself at Mokama railway station as he was about to be seized, while Khudiram Bose was arrested, tried and hanged at Muzaffarpur jail on 11 August 1908, still in his teens.
Cross-check against the other names offered:
Bhagat Singh was born in 1907 and belonged to the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association of the late 1920s, a full generation after 1908.
Aurobindo Ghosh belonged to the same Bengal phase but as its writer-ideologue; he stood trial in the Alipore Bomb Case of 1908 and was acquitted, and he did not take part in the Muzaffarpur action.
Rajendra Lahiri belonged to the Hindustan Republican Association and is associated with the Kakori train action of 1925.
Therefore the revolutionary who acted with Khudiram Bose at Muzaffarpur in April 1908 was Prafulla Chaki.