Consider the following pairs:PersonContributionRadhakanta DebFirst President of the British Indian A

Question

Consider the following pairs:PersonContributionRadhakanta DebFirst President of the British Indian AssociationGazulu Lakshminarasu ChettyFounder of the Madras Mahajana SabhaSurendranath BanerjeeFounder of the Indian AssociationWhich of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?

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The British Indian Association was established on 31 October 1851. The first committee of the association was composed of:Raja Radhakanta Deb – PresidentRaja Kalikrishna Deb – Vice-PresidentDebendranath Tagore – SecretaryDigambar Mitra – Assistant SecretaryIn May 1884, M. Veeraraghavachariar, G. Subramania Iyer, and P. Anandacharlu established the Madras Mahajana Sabha. Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty was an Indian merchant, Indian independence activist, and political activist who founded the Madras Native Association. The Indian Association was the first declared Nationalist Organization founded in British India by Surendranath Banerjee and Anand Mohan Bose in 1876.Source: NCERT: The Making of the National Movement 1870s-1947