Match the Organisation with its Founding year :(a) Madras Hindu Widow Remarriage Association 1. 1852 (b) Madras Mahajana Sabha 2. 1817 (c) Madras Literary Society 3. 1891 (d) Hindu Progressive Improvement Society 4. 1884
3 4 2 1
These four bodies mark the growth of associational public life in nineteenth-century Madras.
The Madras Literary Society, the oldest of them, dates from 1817, so (c) pairs with 1817 (2).
The Hindu Progressive Improvement Society was formed in 1852 by Srinivasa Pillai to promote social reform and education, so (d) pairs with 1852 (1).
The Madras Mahajana Sabha was founded in May 1884 by M. Viraraghavachari, G. Subramaniya Iyer and P. Ananda Charlu, so (b) pairs with 1884 (4).
The Madras Hindu Widow Remarriage Association belongs to the reform activity of the 1890s and takes the remaining year 1891, so (a) pairs with 3. The code for (a), (b), (c), (d) is 3, 4, 2, 1; every other code assigns the Mahajana Sabha or the Literary Society a wrong year.
3 4 2 1 option is correct.
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