History · 31 Jul 2026

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science

Which of the following statements about the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) is correct?

AIt was founded by C.V. Raman in 1876 with state funding from the colonial government.
BIt was founded by Mahendralal Sircar in 1876 without any colonial state support.
CIt was established in 1907 specifically to employ C.V. Raman as its first paid researcher.
DIt was founded in 1882 following the publication of Anandamath.
This question is based on: IACS at 150: The Science Institute That Won Because the State Never Ran It
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Why in news

IACS marked its 150th anniversary on July 29, 2026, prompting reflection on its self-funded, state-independent model of scientific institution-building.

Why for UPSC

UPSC often tests founder-institution-year linkages for colonial-era scientific and cultural institutions, especially where a well-known later figure (Raman) can be wrongly conflated with the founder.

Prelims summary

IACS was founded by Mahendralal Sircar in 1876 without state support; C.V. Raman later used its labs informally and discovered the Raman Effect there in 1928, winning India's first Nobel Prize in the sciences in 1930.

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