Which of the following pair of place – year of formation is correct regarding…

2021

Which of the following pair of place – year of formation is correct regarding Singh Sabha? I. Amritsar – 1873 II. Lahore – 1879

  1. A.

    Only I

  2. B.

    Only II

  3. C.

    Both I and II

  4. D.

    Neither I nor II

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Correct answer: C

The Singh Sabha movement was a Sikh socio-religious reform effort in colonial Punjab that produced more than one distinct Singh Sabha body, each founded at a specific place and year in response to particular pressures — Christian missionary activity, the Arya Samaj's Shuddhi campaign, and rivalry over community leadership. Correctly pairing a Singh Sabha with its founding place and year requires knowing which body arose first, where, and which came next as a rival reform current.

The first Singh Sabha was established at Amritsar, convened by the conservative Sanatan Sikh elite (led by Khem Singh Bedi), with its founding meeting held in 1873. Educated middle-class Sikhs who found this Amritsar body too aristocratic and too accommodating of Brahmanical practice broke away and organised a rival, more assertive reform body — the Tat Khalsa faction — at Lahore under leaders such as Gurmukh Singh and Giani Ditt Singh, in 1879. Both given pairings — the Amritsar body's 1873 founding and the Lahore body's 1879 founding — match this documented sequence, so both Statement I and Statement II hold.

  • The two bodies represent the movement's two wings — the older, aristocratic Amritsar current and the younger, reform-minded Lahore current — and this internal split independently confirms that the Lahore body's founding follows the Amritsar body's founding by several years, matching the years given.

  • Multiple independent historical accounts of the movement converge on this same place-year pairing for both bodies, with no competing pairing recorded for either place.

Since both individual statements match the documented founding details, the pairing that holds is Both I and II.

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