INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Indian Association was the first avowed nationalist organization founded in British India by Surendranath Banerjee and Ananda Mohan Bose in 1876. The objectives of this Association were “promoting by every legitimate means the political, intellectual and material advancement of the people".

Detailed explanation-2: -The association was founded in Bengal in 1876 by Surendranath Banerjea and Ananda Mohan Bose; it soon displaced the Indian League, which had been founded the year before, and rivaled the long-standing British Indian Association, which it regarded as a reactionary body of landlords and industrialists.

Detailed explanation-3: -Option B, Surendranath Banerjee is the correct answer.

Detailed explanation-4: -He was born in 1848 and is widely known as the “Father of Indian Nationalism". In 1869, Surendranath Banerjee cleared the Indian Civil Services Examination and was appointed as an Assistant Magistrate in Sylhet.