Indian National Movement | Miscellaneous 

Indian National Movement | Miscellaneous 

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1. The Poona pact was an agreement between

Gandhi and Ambedkar
Nehru and Ambedkar
Nehru and Gandhi
Ambedkar and Malviya

2. In which year Swami Vivekananda established Ramakrishna Mission?

1892
1897
1902
1904

3. The Historic Lucknow Session of the Congress in 1916 was presided over by

Mrs. Annie Besant
R.N. Mudhokar
Ambika Charan Majumdar
Madan Mohan Malviya

4. Who killed Michael O' Dyer, the Governor of Punjab, who has ordered the brutal firing on the innocent people at Jallianwala Bagh?

Madan Lal Dhingra
Sardar Udham Singh
Sohan Singh Bharka
Kanai Lal Dutt

5. The Vital-Vidhvansak, the first monthly journal to have the untouchable people as its target audience was published by

Gopal Baba Walangkar
Jyotiba Phule
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

6. The brain behind the bomb attack on Viceroy Lord Hardinge at Chandni Chawk, Delhi in December 1912, was

Rasbehari Basu
Bhai Parmanand
Sachindranath Sanyal
Shobhan Lal Pathak

7. He was a great Indian revolutionary who was a Professor of Sanskrit and Philosophy in the Universities of Berkeley and Standford and died as a sanyasi in Philadelphia, He was :

Shyamji Krishna Verma
Lala Hardayal
Bhai Parmanand
Ram Chandra Bhardwaj

8. With reference to the history of India, "Ulgulan" or the Great Tumult is the description of which of the following events?

The Revolt of 1857
The Mappila Rebellion of 1921
The Indigo Revolt of 1859-60
Birsa Munda's Revolt of 1899- 1900

9. After the Partition of Bengal, the two new provinces which came into existence were

East Bengal and Bengal
East Bengal and West Bengal
East Bengal and Assam
East Bengal and North Bengal

10. The founder President of the Harijan Sevak Sangha, founded by M.K. Gandhi, was

Mahadev Desai
G.D. Birla
Amrit Lal Thakkar
B.R. Ambedkar

11. After the Surat split in 1907, the Second Split in the Congress took place in 1918 on the issue of

Lucknow Pact
Montagu Declaration
Election of Mrs. Annie Besant as President of the INC (1917)
Both (A) and (C)

12. The day M.K. Gandhi launched the Non-Cooperation Movement, a great National leader died, he was:

Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Pheroze Shah Mehta
C.R. Das

13. Which of the following acted as President of the Indian National Congress for six Consecutive years?

Jawaharlal Nehru
Dadabhai Naoroji
Abul Kalam Azad
Gopal Krishna Gokhale

14. One common agreement between Gandhism and Marxism is

the final goal of a stateless society
class struggle
abolition of private property
economic determinism

15. Which of the following revolutionary and terrorist organisations had a large number of young women revolutionaries?

Yugantor
Anushilan Samiti
Bharat Mata Society
Indian Republican Army

16. Who gave the title of Rani to the Naga woman leader Gaidinliu?

Subhas Chandra Basu
Jawaharlal Nehru
Thakkar Bapa
Mahatma Gandhi

17. Who founded a Social Organisation, the 'Jat Pat Torak Mandal' in 1922, for breaking the caste barriers among the Hindus?

Bhai Parmanand
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
M. G. Ranade
Keshab Chandra Sen

18. In which year 'The Hindu Widow Remarriage Act' was passed?

1856
1858
1859
1862

19. Which of the following was not a leader of the All India Hindu Mahasabha?

V.D. Savarkar
Bhai Parmanand
Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
M. R. Jayakar

20. The only Indian prince, who actively participated in the revolutionary movement within and outside India, was

Raja Mahendra Pratap
Kunwar Singh
Chhatrapati Sahu
Raja Ripudaman Singh

21. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was given the epither of Lokmanya during

Swadeshi Movement
Revolutionary Movement
Home Rule Movement
His imprisonment in1908

22. What approximately was the number of Princely States which legally became independent at the lapse British paramountcy on August 151947?

300
600
150
700

23. A Muslim organisation, which proposed during the First World War that Muslims should participate and try to reach an accord with the Congress, was

Muslim League
Ahmadiya Movement
Ehrar League
Deoband Movement

24. In 1937 in the Daundi-Lohara Zamindari there was a peasant movement, in which the peasants observed Satyagraha under the leadership of who of the following?

Narsingh Prasad Agrawal
Sarayu Prasad Agrawal
Wali Muhammad
Wasudeo Deshmukh

25. Who has advocated 'Practical Vedanta'?

Dayanand
Raja Rammohan Roy
Gandhi
Vivekananda

26. Ridiculing the idea of Swarajya in 1903; who said, "Only mad men outside lunatic assylums could think or talk of independence"?

Lord Curzon
Lord Hardinge
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Pheroze Shah Mehta

27. Where did Netaji Subhash Bose hoist the Indian Flag?

Imphal
Port Blair
Kohima
Delhi

28. After leaving the Congress, Subhas Chandra Bose organised the Forward Block in

1939
1938
1940
1941

29. Lord Mountbatten's Declaration on the Freedom of India and its partition is known as

The August Plan
The June 3rd Plan
The June 2nd Plan
The Partition Plan

30. Which place did Kunwar Singh, a leader during the Revolt of 1857 belong to ?

Uttar Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
Rajasthan
Bihar

31. He was the Commander-in-chief of the army of Rani Chennamma. He fought with the British using guerrilla tactics. Who is this famous freedom fighter of Karnataka?

Muduvidu Krishnarao
Aluru Venkata Rao
Jogi Beeranna Nayak
Sangolli Rayanna

32. The main principle of M.K. Gandhi's famous Basic Education System or Wardha Scheme was

Learning through activity
Learning through productivity
Earning and learning
Learning and spinning

33. The four brigades of the I.N.A. were named after

Lal, Bal, Pal, Subhas
Surya, Chandra, Jatin, Bhagat
Gandhi, Azad, Nehru, Subhas
Ganga, Yamuna, Narmada, Kaveri

34. Who among the following from Karnataka participated in Gandhi's Dandi March (Salt Satyagraha)?

M.P. Nadkarni
K.T. Bhashyam
Mailara Mahadevappa
T. Siddalingaish

35. Who presided over the Flag Satyagraha movement organised by the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) at Shivapura?

Mailara Mahadevappa
Mahatma Gandhi
T. Siddalingaiah
K. C. Reddy

36. The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association movement ended with the death of

Bhagat Singh
Ram Prasad Bismil
Chandra Sekhar Azad
Jogesh Chandra Chatterji

37. Which of the following was the chief organiser of the Revolt of 1857 in Bihar?

Amar Singh
Kunwar Singh
Pir Ali
Imaduddin

38. Which title was given to Jayaprakash Narayan

Praja Hitechhu
Lok Nayak
Rashtra Nayak
Lokmanya

39. Which movement was started as a reaction to the Partition of Bengal?

Non-Cooperation Movement
Civil Disobedience Movement
Swadeshi Movement
Purna Swaraj Movement

40. For how many days did Dandi March last?

10 days
20 days
24 days
30 days

41. British Prime Minister Attlee made the historic announcement of the end of British rule of India on

20 February, 1947
16 August, 1946
7 March, 1947
9 December, 1946

42. Where did Madam Cama unfurl India's tricolour flag of freedom?

Paris
London
Stuttgart
Geneva

43. Who among the following advocates had appeared for the INA trials at Delhi in 1945-46?

Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Bhulabhai Desai
K.M. Munshi
Sardar Patel

44. Who of the following was not hanged in the famous Kakori Train Dacoity Case?

Pandit Ramprasad Bismil
Roshan Lal
Ashfaquall Khan
Surya Sen

45. Who murdered Sunders, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Lahore, for assualting Lala Lajpat Rai?

Bhagat Singh
Batukeswar Dutt
Sukh Dev
Raj Guru

46. In which of the following colleges, Gandhiji and studied?

Samaldas College, Bhavnagar
Dharmendrasinhji College, Rajkot
Gujarat College, Ahmedabad
Bahauddin College, Junagadh

47. Which of the following persons had participated activity in the Revolt of 1857?

Nana Saheb (Kanpur)
Begum Hazrat Mahal (Lucknow)
Maulavi Ahmadullah (Faizabad)
All of the above

48. Which Indian mass movement began with the famous 'Dandi March' of Mahatma Gandhi?

Khilafat movement
Non-Cooperation movement
Civil Disobedience movement
Quit India movement

49. Who was the first president of 'British Indian Association'?

Surendra Nath Banerjee
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Radha Kant Dev
Anand Mohan Bose

50. When was the Tripuri Session of the Indian National Congress held in which Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was elected the President of the Congress?

1936
1937
1938
1939

51. Gopal Hari Deshmukh is popularly Known as 'Lokhitwadi' because

He was a great philanthropist and social worker.
He distributed money and medicines to the poor and the needy.
He edited a mouthly magazine the 'Lokhitwadi'.
All of the above

52. The revolutionary, who was convicted in the Mahant Pyarelal Murder case

Zorawar Singh
Shyamji Krishna Varma
Kesari Singh Barhat
Vijay Singh Pathik

53. Which one of the following organisations was started by Jyotirao Phule in 1873?

Prarthana Samaj
Bahujan Samaj
Justice Party
Satyashodhak Samaj

54. The revolutionary, who was not involved in Hardinge Bomb incident?

Master Amir Chand
Bhagwati Charan Vohara
Bhai Balmukund
Avadh Bihari

55. Who has presided over the inauguration session of the 'All India Trade Union Congress' held in 1920?

Lala Lajpat Rai
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bipin Chandra Pal
Surendra Nath Banerjee

56. Who among the following historians has written the book entitled 'The wonder that was India'?

A.L. Basham
Alison Bashford
R.C. Majumdar
Satish Chandra

57. Who was the founder of the Tattabodhini Sabha?

Debendranath Tagore
Rammohan Roy
Keshabchandra Sen
Iswarchandra Vidyasagar

58. In which newspaper 'Boycott' was first declared?

Sanjiboni
Hitawadi
Yugantar
Amrita Bazar

59. Who played the role of mediator in Gandhi-Irwin Pact?

Motilal Nehru
Tej Bahadur Sapru
Annie Besant
Chintamani

60. Who founded the Khuda-i-Khidmatgar party?

Abbas Taybji
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
Maulana Azad
Dr. Ansari

61. Who was the first editor of the Amrita Bazar Patrika?

Sambhuchandra Mukhopadhyay
Sisir Kumar Ghosh
Girish Chandra Ghosh
Robert Knight

62. When the first Independence Day was celebrated in India?

26th January, 1930
2nd January, 1039
31st October, 1929
8th December, 1930

63. The Cabinet Mission came to India in the year

1946
1945
1942
1940

64. Which among the following great revolutionaries was the brain behind the 'Chittagong Armoury Raid'?

Ganesh Ghosh
Chandrasekhar Azad
Surya Sen
Lala Hardayal

65. Who is called the 'Father of Indian National Congress'?

Mahatma Gandhi
A.O. Hume
Lokmanya Tilak
Surendra Nath Banerjee

66. In which year Salt Satyagraha took place?

1929
1930
1931
1932

67. Who founded Indian Women's University?

Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan
Dhondo Keshab Karve
Sir William Hunter
Sir Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay

68. Who founded the Forward Block?

Subhaschandra Bose
Rasbehari Bose
Jadugopal Mukhopadhyay
Hemchandra Ghosh

69. Who led the Bardoli Movement?

Vallabhbhai Patel
Mahatma Gandhi
Chamanlal
Raja Gopalachari

70. In which Congress the demand for 'Purna Swaraj' was placed?

Lahore Congress
Surat Congress
Calcutta Congress
Nagpur Congress

71. What is the meaning of 'Ghadar'?

Revolt
Independence
Swaraj
Liberation

72. Which member of the Constituent Assembly proposed the resolution that the National Flag of India be a "horizontal tricolour of saffron, white and dark green in equal proportion", with a wheel in navy blue at the centre?

Jawaharlal Nehru
B.R. Ambedkar
Rajendra Prasad
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

73. 'Neel-Darpan' by Dina Bandhu Mitra portrays the plight of

Bengali Artisans
Indigo Planters
Landless Labourers
All of the above

74. Name the rebel who fought against the British in the battle of Chinhat in the course of the 1857 Revolt?

Ahmadullah Shah
Shah Mal
Mangal Pandey
Kunwar Singh

75. Who among the following social reformer started a society for the encouragement of widow remarriage in 1866 in Maharashtra?

Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Jyotirao Phule
Vishnushastri Pandit
Pandita Ramabai

76. The Cabinet Mission Plan for India envisaged a

Federation
Confederation
Unitary form of Government
Union of States

77. In which district of Madhya Pradesh was Chandrashekhar Azad born?

Khargone
Gwalior
Jhabua
Satna

78. Who was elected as President of the All India Khilafat Conference (23rd November, 1919)?

Mahatma Gandhi
Subhaschandra Bose
Chittaranjan Das
Motilal Nehru

79. Who among the following was the founder Phoenix Settlement?

Mahatma Gandhi
B. R. Ambedkar
Rabindranath Tagore
Swami Vivekananda

80. Which one of the following associations was founded in London by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1866?

The Bengal British Indian Society
The East India Association
The British Indian Association
The Madras Native Association

81. Who among the following was believed to be a leader of the Sanyasis and Fakirs conspiring against the British in 1857?

Mangal Pandey
Bahadur Shah II
Queen Zeenat Mahal
Nana Sahib

82. Which one of the following was NOT a cause of the Revolt of 1857?

The rumour that the British had mixed the bone dust of cows and pigs into the flour being sold in the market
The prophecy that British rule would come to an end on the centenary of the Battle of Plassey on 23rd June, 1857
Popular discontent with Brisith rule
The prophecy that the end of British rule would lead to the end of the Kali Yuga and the return of Ram Rajya

83. Which one of the following is a feature of thought and philosophy of the Kandukuri Viresalingam?

He believed that science and morality were unconnected to truth
He believed in universal education
He believed that language had no role in inculcating morality in students
He did not attempt to build a national consciousness on a cultural base

84. On August 15, 1947, Flag Hoisting in Durg was done by whom?

Pt. Ravishankar Shukla
Shri R.K. Patil
Shri Ghanshyam Gupta
Pt. Ramgopal Tiwari

85. In the context of Indian history, the principle of 'Dyarchy (diarchy)' refers to

Division of the central legislature into two houses.
Introduction of double government, i.e., Central and State governments.
Having two sets of rulers; one in London and another in Delhi.
Division of the subjects delegated to the provincess into two categories.

86. "Mercantilist, Free Trade Mercantile Capitalism and Finance Imperialism are three successive phases of British Colonialism." This theory was first formulated by whom?

Karl Marx
Dadabhai Naoroji
R.C. Dutt
B.R. Ambedkar

87. Which of the following pair is not correctly matched?

Begun : Ram Narayan Chaudhary
Bundi : Naynu Ram Sharma
Bijoliya : Vijay Singh Pathik
Bikaner : Narottam Lal Joshi

88. Who adorned Ram Mohan Roy with the title of 'Raja'?

Aurangzeb
Robert Clive
Mahatma Gandhi
Mughal Emperor Akbar II

89. Who among the following had not participated in the Second Table Conference?

Mahadev Desai
Pyarelal Nayyar
Madan Mohan Malaviya
Jawaharlal Nehru

90. 'Bodhan Doua' was the Commander (Senapati) of

Shahgarh King Bakhatwali
Banpur King Mardan Singh
Hirapur King Hirdeshah
Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi

91. Who said, "All communalism is harmful. The logic of minority communalism is separatism, and majority communalism culminates into fascism"?

Asish Nandy
Bipin Chandra
Zoya Hassan
Bhikhu Parekh

92. Who among the following was the youngest person to become the President of the Indian National Congress?

Jawaharlal Nehru
Abul Kalam Azad
Ananda Mohan Bose
Bhupendra Nath Bose

93. Who launched the Bardoli Satyagraha on 4th February, 1928?

Mahatma Gandhi
Vallabhbhai Patel
Rajendra Prasad
Kalyanji Mehta

94. An important event of Lord Dufferin's tenure as Viceroy was

establishment of Ramakrishna Mission
establishment of Muslim League in Dhaka
establishment of Indian National Congress
beginning of the first Census

95. Which of the following was Gandhiji's first Satyagraha Movement in India in which he used Civil Disobedience?

Champaran
Kheda
Ahmedabad
Rowlatt Satyagraha

96. Swami Sahajananda was related to which of the following?

Tribal Movement in Bihar
Labour Movement in Bihar
Peasant Movement in Bihar
Case Movement in Bihar

97. Who were designed as Neo Nationalists?

Extremists
Revolutioneries
Moderates
Swarajists

98. The main reason for the peasants to join the 1857 Revolt was:

Inordinately high revenue demands
The revenue policies not only uprooted the ordinary peasants but also destroyed the gentry of the country
The beneficiaries of the new revenue policies were also not satisfied
All of the above

99. Which among the following events happened earliest?

Swami Dayanand established Arya Samaj.
Dinabandhu Mitra wrote Neeldarpan.
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote Anandmath.
Satyendranath Tagore became the first Indian to succeed in the Indian Civil Services Examination.

100. What was the solution found by B. R. Ambedkar in later years after Independence to end the hardship of scheduled class people?

More Representations
Separate Electorate
Embracing the Buddhism
Organised Movement