RAS question
Aurobindo Ghosh was associated with which revolutionary organization?
Correct answer: (B) Anushilan Samiti.
Aurobindo Ghosh was associated with Anushilan Samiti, the revolutionary organisation linked with Bengal's early nationalist movement.
Explanation
Aurobindo Ghosh's revolutionary association was with Anushilan Samiti. He belonged to Bengal's revolutionary politics and was arrested in the Alipore Bomb Case of 1908, followed by acquittal and later retirement to Pondicherry for spiritual work. Encyclopaedia Britannica notes the link: after the 1905 partition of Bengal, Aurobindo left Baroda, moved to Calcutta in 1906, and openly joined the independence movement, including a revolutionary organisation called Anushilan Samiti. This was not merely constitutional politics: he favoured radical nationalism and direct, armed action against British rule rather than the moderate Congress approach of that time.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Ghadar Party does not fit this Bengal-centred context, because Ghadar was an organisation based abroad.
- (C) HSRA is not the right association here because it was formed later, whereas Aurobindo's revolutionary phase and Alipore Bomb Case context belong to 1908.
- (D) Forward Bloc is ruled out because it is linked to Bose, not to Aurobindo Ghosh's Bengal revolutionary activity.
Concept
This tests the revolutionary-nationalist phase of the Indian freedom struggle, especially Bengal after the partition of 1905. RAS often asks such questions because organisations, leaders and cases like Anushilan Samiti and the Alipore Bomb Case are compact factual links in Modern Indian History.