Q141
Indian National MovementRevolutionary Movement
Madan Lal Dhingra murdered Curzon Wyllie in London in 1909 as a protest against
- a.the indiscriminate arrest of the Ghadarites.
- b.the inhuman transportation and hanging of Indian youth.
- c.the imprisonment of Lal, Bal and Pal.
- d.the Partition of Bengal.
Answer: (B) the inhuman transportation and hanging of Indian youth.
Madan Lal Dhingra, a student associated with India House in London (Shyamji Krishnavarma, V. D. Savarkar), shot Sir William Curzon Wyllie, political aide-de-camp to the Secretary of State for India, on 1 July 1909. In his statement he said he had avenged the inhuman hangings and transportations of patriotic Indian youths, such as the execution of Khudiram Bose (1908). He was hanged at Pentonville prison on 17 August 1909. The arrests of the Ghadarites came later (1915), Lal-Bal-Pal were not imprisoned together, and the Partition of Bengal was not the motive he gave.