Question

The organization formed by Bal Gangadhar Tilak in 1916 was _________.
A- Home rule League
B- Arya Samaj
C- Swaraj Party
D- Prathana Samaj

Answer 1

Hint:Born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak, Bal Gangadhar Tilak was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and activist for independence. He was one third of the triumvirate at Lal Bal Pal.

Complete answer:
In April and September 1916, respectively, the Indian nationalist Bal Gangadhar Tilak and the British social reformer and Indian independence leader Annie Besant founded the Home Rule League, one of two short-lived organizations of the same name in India. The term, borrowed from a similar movement in Ireland, referred to the British Indian government's attempts by Indian nationalists to attain self-rule.
Founded in Poona (now Pune, Maharashtra), Tilak's group concentrated its efforts mainly in western India, and that of Besant, formed in Madras (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu), had more of an all-India reach. However both worked towards the same goal of mobilizing Indian popular opinion in favor of self-government, primarily through nonviolent means, and each worked closely with the other from the beginning.
Home Rulers' pressure on the British led Edwin Samuel Montagu, Secretary of State for India, to draft the Montagu Declaration in 1917, which in turn laid the groundwork for political reforms in India initiated by Britain after World War I. However the strength of the Home Rule organizations had diminished by that time. Although their position in the Indian independence movement was modest, during the war years, as manifested in the signing of the Lucknow Pact in December 1916, they succeeded in helping to retain the movement's momentum.

Therefore, Option A) Home rule league is the correct answer.

Note:Arya Samaj is a Hindu monotheistic reform movement in India that promotes principles and practices based on the belief in the Vedas' infallible authority. On 10 April 1875, Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati founded the Samaj. The Congress-Khilafat Swarajya Party was founded by Chittaranjan Das, Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar and Motilal Nehru in December 1922, with Das as the president and Nehru as one of the secretaries.
In 1867, when Keshub Chandra Sen visited Maharashtra, Prarthana Samaj was established by Dadoba Pandurang and his brother Atmaram Pandurang, with the intention of making people believe in one God and worship only one God.