With reference to the period of extremist nationalist movement in India with its spirit of Swadeshi, which one of the following statements is not correct ?

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Q: 102 (IAS/2002)
With reference to the period of extremist nationalist movement in India with its spirit of Swadeshi, which one of the following statements is not correct ?

question_subject: 

History

question_exam: 

IAS

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keywords: 

{'bengal national college': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'extremist nationalist movement': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'satish chandra mukherjee': [0, 0, 1, 1], 'national education': [0, 1, 1, 0], 'muslim peasants': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'barisal': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'laikat hossain': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'india': [8, 1, 7, 13], 'atmasakti': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'swadeshi': [0, 0, 0, 1], 'agitations': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'cult': [0, 0, 1, 2]}

Option 1 states that Laikat Hossain led the Muslim peasants of Barisal in their agitations. This statement is false as it was actually Aswini Kumar Dutta, not Laikat Hossain, who led the Barisal peasants` agitation during the Swadeshi movement in British India, therefore the correct answer is option 1.

Option 2 claims that in 1989, the scheme of national education was formulated by Satish Chandra Mukherjee. This is wrong too, the scheme was formulated much earlier. However, it cannot be correct since answer is already given.

Option 3 indicates that the Bengal National College was founded in 1906 with Aurobindo as the Principal. This is true. Aurobindo Ghosh was the first principal of Bengal National College.

Option 4 says that Tagore preached the cult of Atmasakti, the main plank of which was social and economic regeneration of the villages. Rabindranath Tagore indeed preached the philosophy of Atmasakti and emphasised on rural self-progress.