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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2016 — General Studies · Question 67 of 200

Q67
Indian National MovementRevolutionary Movement
Who organised 'Anushilan Samiti'?
  1. a.Jatin Das
  2. b.Batukeshwar Dutt
  3. c.P. Mitra
  4. d.Aswini Kumar Dutta

Answer: (C) P. Mitra

Anushilan Samiti was founded in 1902 in Calcutta by Pramatha Mitra (P. Mitra), a lawyer, as a revolutionary nationalist organization. It later became one of the most important revolutionary societies in Bengal, with branches in Dhaka and elsewhere, training freedom fighters.