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Which one of the following statements about Tattvabodhini Patrika is correct?

Options

  1. AIt promoted a systematic study of India's past in the Bengali language.
  2. BIt promoted a systematic study of India's past through Sanskrit sources.
  3. CIt promoted a systematic study of India's past through Persian sources.
  4. DIt promoted a systematic study of India's past through Western sources.

Correct answer

A. It promoted a systematic study of India's past in the Bengali language.

Step-by-step solution

- The Tattwabodhini Sabha was a group started in Calcutta on 6 October 1839 as a splinter group of the Brahmo Samaj. - Debendranath Tagore founded Tatvabodhini Sabha to propagate Rammohan Roy's ideas. - It promoted a systematic study of India's past in the Bengali language. It also helped spread a rational outlook among the intellectuals of Bengal. - The main objective of the Sabha was to promote a more rational and humanist form of Hinduism based on the Vedanta, the Upanishads that form the last part of the Vedas.

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