Question
Read the following extract (Source 2) mentioned in NCERT textbook (page 144) and answer the questions that follow:
In pursuit of gold
This is what a Moderate leader, Dinshaw Wacha, wrote to Naoroji in 1887: Pherozeshah is nowadays too busy with his personal work ... They are already rich enough ... Mr. Telang too remains busy. I wonder how if all remain busy in the pursuit of gold can the progress of the country be advanced?
(i) Who was Dinshaw Wacha?
(ii)Whom did he write to?
(iii)What did he write in the letter?Solution
(i)Dinshaw Wacha was a Moderate leader of the Congress.
(ii) He wrote to Naoroji.
(iii)He wrote in the letter that if people like Pherozeshah and Telang remained busy in making wealth, then how would the countiy achieve its independence?
