Q. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below them:
List I List II
(Social Reformers of Modern India) (Their contributions)
A. Kesab Chandra Sen 1. Young Bengal Movement
B. Henry Vivian Derazio 2. Param Hansa Mandali
C. Gopal Hari Deshmukh 3. Sadharan Brahma Samaj
D. Devendranath Tagore 4. Tatvabodhini Sabha
     A B C D

Answer: 3 1 2 4
Notes: • Keshub Chandra Sen was an Indian Bengali philosopher and social reformer. Born a Hindu, he became a member of the Brahmo Samaj in 1856 but founded his own breakaway "Brahmo Samaj of India" in 1866 while the Brahmo Samaj remained under the leadership of Debendranath Tagore.
• Henry Derozio was an Indian poet and assistant headmaster of Hindu College, Kolkata, a radical thinker and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning and science among the young men of Bengal.
• In 1849, the Paramahansa Mandali was founded in Maharashtra. Champion of new learning and social reform in Maharashtra was Gopal Hari Deshmukh.
• The Tattwabodhini Sabha was a group started in Calcutta on 6 October 1839 as a splinter group of the Brahmo Samaj, reformers of Hinduism and Indian Society. The founding member was Debendranath Tagore.

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