Read the statements (A) and (B) carefully: (A) : The Veda Samaj was…
2024
Read the statements (A) and (B) carefully:
(A) : The Veda Samaj was established in Madras in 1864.
(B) : It was inspired by the Arya Samaj.
Choose the correct option:
- A.
Both (A) and (B) are true
- B.
Both (A) and (B) are false
- C.
(A) is true but (B) is false
- D.
(A) is false but (B) is true
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: C
CONCEPT: A compound statement question like this needs two separate checks: whether each statement is factually accurate on its own, and — when one statement claims a relationship to the other (such as 'inspired by') — whether that relationship is chronologically possible. An organisation cannot have been inspired by a body that did not yet exist at the time of its own founding.
APPLICATION
Statement (A) claims the Veda Samaj was established in Madras in 1864. This date and location are well documented in accounts of 19th-century socio-religious reform: the Veda Samaj was founded in Madras in 1864, drawing on the monotheistic, anti-caste teachings that Keshab Chandra Sen's Brahmo Samaj had carried to south India. Statement (A) is accurate.
Statement (B) claims the Veda Samaj was inspired by the Arya Samaj. The Arya Samaj was founded by Swami Dayananda Saraswati in Bombay in 1875 — eleven years after the Veda Samaj already existed. A body founded in 1864 cannot draw inspiration from an organisation established only in 1875. The Veda Samaj's actual ideological debt was to the Brahmo Samaj, not the Arya Samaj. Statement (B) is not accurate.
CROSS-CHECK: Checking the two founding dates independently confirms the chronology: the Brahmo Samaj itself dates to 1828 (Raja Ram Mohan Roy), so its influence reaching Madras by 1864 is consistent; the Arya Samaj's 1875 founding by Dayananda Saraswati is separately well documented. Both checks confirm the same chronological impossibility for statement (B).
Result: (A) is true but (B) is false.
Why the other combinations do not fit:
'Both (A) and (B) are true' would require the Arya Samaj to have already existed in 1864, eleven years before its actual founding.
'Both (A) and (B) are false' would require doubting the well-documented 1864 Madras founding of the Veda Samaj.
'(A) is false but (B) is true' both denies the documented founding date and asserts a chronologically impossible source of inspiration.