RAS question
Arjun Lal Sethi is known for his role in which revolutionary activity in Rajasthan?
Correct answer: (B) Revolutionary education and secret societies.
Arjun Lal Sethi is known in Rajasthan for revolutionary education and secret-society activity centred on Vardhaman Jain Vidyalaya in Jaipur.
Explanation
Arjun Lal Sethi was a Jaipur-based revolutionary leader whose work fits option B because it was built around education as a political training ground. Encyclopedia of Jainism says he established Vardhaman Jain Vidyalaya in 1907 and describes it as an important working centre for supporters of independence, where students received religious education along with revolutionary and political ideas. Jain Vardhaman Vidyalaya became a centre for revolutionary education, Sethi was linked with the Rash Bihari Bose network, and he trained revolutionaries in Rajasthan. The point is not a single public agitation, but an organised educational and underground revolutionary space.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Armed rebellion against the Jaipur state is not Sethi's identified role; he is tied to revolutionary education and training through Vardhaman Jain Vidyalaya.
- (C) Organising salt satyagraha does not match Sethi's work through a Jaipur school, revolutionary ideas and secret networks rather than a salt-law protest.
- (D) Leading the Quit India movement in Rajasthan is not Sethi's identified role; Encyclopedia of Jainism instead presents him as an early revolutionary worker associated with Vardhaman Jain Vidyalaya.
Concept
This tests the revolutionary strand of Rajasthan's freedom movement, especially how education, secret networks and local institutions carried anti-colonial politics. RAS repeats such questions because personalities are often linked to their organisational method, not just to a slogan or movement name.