Question

Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?

Column – A (Writer)	Column – B (Contribution)
(A) Ram Chaddha	Bengal Gazette
(B) Gangadhar Bhattacharya	Kesari
(C) Jyotiba Phule	Gulamgiri
(D) Rashsundari Devi	Padmarg

• A. Ram Chaddha – Bengal Gazette
• B. Gangadhar Bhattacharya – Kesari
• C. Jyotiba Phule – Gulamgiri
• D. Rashsundari Devi – Padmarg

Hint:

Separate the newspapers from the books first. Then recall who actually brought out the Bengal Gazette and who edited Kesari, and check what Rashsundari Devi really wrote.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

Concept:

• The four items in Column B are of two different kinds, newspapers and books, so sorting them first shows which pairs have been deliberately crossed over.
• Once the crossovers are spotted, only one pair survives.

Step 1: Sort Column B by type.
Bengal Gazette and Kesari are newspapers. Gulamgiri and Padmarg are book titles. So two pairs deal with journalism and two with authorship.

Step 2: Deal with the two newspapers together.
The Bengal Gazette was brought out by Gangadhar Bhattacharya, and Kesari was edited by Bal Gangadhar Tilak. The paper has given the Bengal Gazette to Ram Chaddha and Kesari to Gangadhar Bhattacharya.
Both newspaper pairs are therefore crossed over and wrong.

Step 3: Deal with the two books.
Jyotiba Phule wrote Gulamgiri in 1871 against the caste system, and that pairing stands. Rashsundari Devi wrote Amar Jiban, the first full length autobiography in Bengali, not a work called Padmarg.

Step 4: Confirm the single surviving pair.
Three pairs fail and only the pairing of Jyotiba Phule with Gulamgiri holds.

Final Answer: (C) Jyotiba Phule – Gulamgiri