Previous Year Question

Which among the following events happened earliest?

Swami Dayanand established Arya Samaj

Dinabandhu Mitra wrote Neeldarpan

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya wrote Anandmath

Satyendranath Tagore became the first Indian to succeed in the Indian Civil Services Examination

Correct Answer: B

Detailed Solution

The correct chronology is:

Event	Year
Dinabandhu Mitra wrote Neeldarpan	1858–1859; published in 1860
Satyendranath Tagore qualified the ICS examination	1863
Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the Arya Samaj	1875
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Anandamath was published	1882

Dinabandhu Mitra—author: He wrote the Bengali play Neeldarpan during 1858–1859. It was published in 1860. The play portrayed the oppression of indigo cultivators by European indigo planters.
Satyendranath Tagore—first successful Indian ICS candidate: He qualified the Indian Civil Service examination in 1863 and entered the service in 1864. Thus, qualifying the examination and entering the service were two separate events. Calling him the “first IAS officer” is historically imprecise because the service at that time was the ICS.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati—founder: He established the Arya Samaj at Bombay in 1875. His role here was specifically that of the founder.
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay—author: His novel Anandamath was published in 1882. It contained Vande Mataram.

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