RAS question
Khudiram Bose was executed for his involvement in:
Correct answer: (B) Muzaffarpur bombing (1908).
Khudiram Bose was executed for his involvement in the Muzaffarpur bombing of 1908.
Explanation
Khudiram Bose's execution is tied to the Muzaffarpur bombing of 1908. The key facts are the place, the target and the date: Bose, then 18, and Prafulla Chaki threw a bomb at a carriage in Muzaffarpur after mistaking it for Magistrate Kingsford's carriage. The attack killed two women, and Bose was hanged on 11 August 1908, making him one of the youngest revolutionaries to be executed. That sequence fits option B exactly. The cited Ministry of Culture source is an official Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav page under its freedom-struggle material, so it is the relevant official source to attach to this freedom-movement item.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) The Chittagong armoury raid belongs to 1930, whereas Bose's execution followed the 1908 Muzaffarpur bombing.
- (C) The Kakori case was a 1925 revolutionary case, so it does not match Bose's hanging on 11 August 1908.
- (D) Lahore conspiracy is associated here with Bhagat Singh, while Bose's case was the Muzaffarpur bombing aimed at Kingsford.
Concept
This tests the Modern Indian revolutionary movement through the exact matching of a revolutionary, incident, place and year. RAS repeats such associations because Muzaffarpur, Kakori, Chittagong and Lahore are common chronology traps.