Who among the following was NOT an early member of the 'Naujawan Bharat Sabha' formed in 1926 A.D.?

The correct answer is D) Ambika Chakravarti. The Naujawan Bharat Sabha was set up at Lahore in 1926 by youth around Bhagat Singh, with Bhagwati Charan Vohra, Sukhdev, Yashpal and Chhabil Das among its early Punjab-based members. Its purpose was to spread socialist and revolutionary ideas among the youth and to back peasant and worker causes, and it later fed into the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.

• A) Bhagat Singh: Wrong. He was one of the principal founders and organisers of the Sabha.
• B) Yaspal: Wrong. Yashpal was an early member and a key figure in the Lahore revolutionary circle.
• C) Chhabil Das: Wrong. He was an early Lahore-based member of the Sabha.
• D) Ambika Chakravarti: Correct. He was a Bengal revolutionary, best known as a leader of the 1930 Chittagong Armoury Raid under Surya Sen. He had no link to the Lahore-based Sabha.

The core concept is the regional spread of revolutionary nationalism in the 1920s, which is useful for Mains answers on the sources of the revolutionary challenge to colonial rule. Keep Punjab and Bengal groups separate in your notes.

Trap: Aspirants often place every revolutionary of the 1920s in one group. Bengal's Chittagong group and Punjab's Naujawan Bharat Sabha had separate origins, leaders and geography.