Question

With reference to the objectives of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, which of the following statements is/are correct?

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

• A.
  1 only
• B.
  2 only
• C.
  Both 1 and 2
• D.
  Neither 1 and 2

Answer 1

The correct option is C

Both 1 and 2
Explanation:

Both statements 1 and 2 are correct: Hindustan Socialist Republican Association was a revolutionary organisation, also known as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army, established in 1928 at Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi by Chandrasekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee

The HSRA had a three-fold objective: (a) to rouse the consciousness of the people of India to the futility of the Gandhian methods of nonviolence, (b) to demonstrate the need and desirability of direct action and revolutions to achieve complete independence, (c) ideologically inspired by the Russian revolution and the socialist thought, the associations hoped to a substitute British imperialism in India by a federated Republic of United State of India.