RAS question
The 'Rajasthan Seva Sangh' was established in 1919 at Wardha by:
Correct answer: (B) Vijay Singh Pathik.
Vijay Singh Pathik established the Rajasthan Seva Sangh at Wardha in 1919 to coordinate peasant and political movements across Rajasthan's princely states.
Explanation
The Rajasthan Seva Sangh is tied to the wider growth of political and social awareness in princely Rajasthan. RajRAS (Connect Civils) lists Rajasthan Seva Sangh, Wardha (1919), and names Vijay Singh Pathik among its founders. Pathik established it at Wardha in 1919, and it was reorganised at Ajmer in 1920, to coordinate peasant and political movements across the princely states of Rajasthan. Its activities included leading the Bijolia and Begun peasant movements and the Bhil movements in Sirohi and Udaipur. Vijay Singh Pathik, rather than any later or parallel Rajasthan public figure, is the correct association for Rajasthan Seva Sangh's 1919 Wardha foundation.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Arjun Lal Sethi is not named as a founder of the Rajasthan Seva Sangh at Wardha in 1919.
- (C) Manikya Lal Verma was associated with the Bijolia peasant movement and later Rajasthan public life, but Vijay Singh Pathik is named among the founders of the Rajasthan Seva Sangh at Wardha in 1919.
- (D) Jai Narain Vyas was a major public figure in Rajasthan politics, but the 1919 Wardha foundation of the Rajasthan Seva Sangh is associated with Vijay Singh Pathik, not Vyas.
Concept
Modern Rajasthan history gives special importance to political associations and peasant mobilisation in the princely states. Organisations, founders, places and years form the backbone of Rajasthan's freedom-movement chronology.