Who amongst the following established a secret organization of the revolutionaries known as Mitra Mela?

Solution

• Option A is correct: Mitra Mela was a secret society founded by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and his brother Ganesh Damodar Savarkar in 1904. Initially founded at Nasik as Mitra Mela, the society was associated with several revolutionaries and political activists with branches in various parts of India and London. • Option B is incorrect: Vasudev Balwant Phadke organized the Ramosi Peasant Force in 1879 which was the first of the revolutionary activities in Maharashtra. It aimed to rid the country of the British by instigating an armed revolt by disrupting communication lines. It hoped to raise funds for its activities through dacoities but was suppressed prematurely. • Option C is incorrect: Nasik Conspiracy Case: Anant Laxman Kanhere was an Indian independence fighter. He shot Arthur Mason Tippetts Jackson (1866 – 1909) the Collector of Nashik in British India. The murder of Jackson was an important event in the history of Nashik and the Indian revolutionary movement in Maharashtra. Other people present caught Anant and he was not able to shoot himself. He was prosecuted in Bombay court and hanged in the Thane Prison on 19 April 1910, a mere four months after Jackson was killed. • Option D is incorrect: Madanlal Dingra shot dead Curzon Wyllie, a British Indian Army officer at the meeting of the National Indian Association (an organization of Indian loyalists). He made no attempt to escape and during the course of hearing of the case, he himself asked for the death sentence.