Previous Year Question

With reference to Madanapalle of Andhra Pradesh, which one of the following statements is correct?

Pingali Venkayya designed the tricolour Indian National Flag here.

Pattabhi Sitaramaiah led the Quit India Movement of Andhra region from here.

Rabindranath Tagore translated the National Anthem from Bengali to English here.

Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott set up headquarters of Theosophical Society first here.

Correct Answer: C

Detailed Solution

Option (c)—Correct

Rabindranath Tagore stayed at the Besant Theosophical College in Madanapalle in 1919. It was here that, on 28 February 1919, he translated ‘Jana Gana Mana’ from Bengali into English. The English translation was titled “The Morning Song of India.”

Margaret Cousins helped prepare its Western musical notation based on the tune and musical notes provided by Tagore. Madanapalle is therefore historically associated with the English translation and musical notation of the National Anthem.

Option (a)—Incorrect

During the 1921 session of the All India Congress Committee at Bezwada—present-day Vijayawada, Pingali Venkayya presented his flag to Mahatma Gandhi. This event did not take place at Madanapalle.

Option (b)—Incorrect

The claim that Pattabhi Sitaramaiah led the Quit India Movement of the Andhra region from Madanapalle is historically incorrect.

Option (d)—Incorrect

The Theosophical Society was founded in New York on 17 November 1875. Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott were among its founders. Its headquarters was first established in Bombay and then permanently at Adyar, Madras—present-day Chennai—in 1882, not at Madanapalle.

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