UPSC Prelims 2018 · Question 79 of 99
UPSC Prelims 2018 question on Swarajya Sabha Home Rule League
- ExamUPSC CSE
- Year2018
- PaperGeneral Studies Paper I
- SubjectModern History
- TopicIndian National Movement
- DifficultyHard
- TypeDirect
In 1920, which of the following changed its name to 'Swarajya Sabha'?
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Answer: A. All India Home Rule League
Analysis
The All India Home Rule League changed its name, so the answer is (a).
Gandhi became president of the All India Home Rule League in 1920, and its name was changed to Swarajya Sabha.
The distractors are all contemporaneous organisations with distinct trajectories. The Hindu Mahasabha and the Servants of India Society continued under their own names, and the South Indian Liberal Federation, better known as the Justice Party, was a non-Brahmin political organisation in Madras that did not undergo this change.
Source
The PDF cites a Google Books reference for this fact (random reading), so no standard textbook page can be given.
How to crack it
The reasoning link is between the old name and the new one. Home Rule and Swarajya express the same demand, one in English and one in Indian idiom, so the organisation renaming itself Swarajya Sabha is almost certainly the Home Rule League. None of the other three has a name related to self rule. When an organisation is renamed, look for continuity of meaning between the two names, since that is usually the whole point of the change.