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1. Mahatma Gandhi considered preconditions as necessary for a satyagrahi to fulfill namely :
Follow truth and cultivate fearlessness.
Prefect Chastity
Adopts poverty
All of the above
2. The Kakori Conspiracy took place in :
1925
1922
1920
1915
3. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar took place on :
March 13 1919
April 13 1919
May 13 1919
June 13 1919
4. Whom did Mahatma Gandhi consider his political guru?
Shri Bharat Kumar
Purushottam Das Tandon
Sir William Wedderburn
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
5. The organization of Khudai Khidmatgar was established:
Under the leadership of Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan.
Under the leadership of Abul Kalam Azad
Under the leadership of M.
Under the leadership of Syed Hasan Imam
6. Bal Gangadhar Tilak introduced the slogan Swaraj is my birth right in :
1896
1904
1906
1910
7. Who founded Abhinav Bharat ?
V.
Savarkar
Arbindo Ghosh
None of these
8. The two names which were associates with the publication of the paper ‘Yugantar’ are:
Barindra kumar Ghose and Arbindo Ghosh
Bhupendranath Dutta and Arbindo Ghosh
Barindra kumar Ghose and Bhupendranath Dutta
Sawarkar
9. Delhi was formally declared the future capital of the British India in :
1906
1909
1912
1911
10. The year which is associated with the Gadar movement is:
1911
1913
1917
1922
11. The Queen Victoria assumed the title of the Empress of India in 1876 by :
British parliament
Indian Sabha
Singaporian Parliament
None of these
12. Who said – “Our Life and religion are useless without the attainment of Swaraj”?
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Veer Kunwar
Lala Lajpat Ra
Bhagat Singh
13. The newspapers ‘The Punjabi and The pupil’ were published by :
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Lala Lajpat Rai
Bhagat Singh
Lala Hardyal
14. The National College in Calcutta had been established on :
September 14 1906
July 14 1906
March 14 1906
August 14 1906
15. In 1906 Dadabhai Naoroji had passed a resolution approving the issues of swadeshi and national education in:
The Calcutta Session of the Indian National congress
The Lucknow Session of the Indian National congress
The Meerut Session of the Indian National congress
The Lahore Session of the Indian National congress
16. Who played an important role in the Gadar Movement in 1915?
Lala Hardayal
Lala Lajpat Rai
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
None of the above
17. In 1821 Raja Ram Mohan Roy started the Bengal quarterly:
Samvad Kaumudi
Bengali renaissance
Bengal Gazette
The Brahmonical
18. The first man after the revolt of 1857 who wanted to overthrow the British regime by means of an armed rebellion and establish self-government in India was:
Bhakt Khan
Nana Sahib
Vasudeo Balwant Phadke
Jung Bhadur Rana
19. Who established East India Association in London 1866?
Subhash Chandra Bose
Dadabhai Naoroji
V. O. Chidambaram Pillai
Hemu Kalani
20. In 1893 Mahatma Gandhi went to South Africa in connection with the trial of a merchant:
Hemu Kalani
Sachindra Bakshi
Manmath Nath Gupta
Abdulla Seth
21. Barindra Kumar Ghose and Bhupendranath Dutta started:
Jugantar
Som Prakash
Vichar Lahiri
Sandhya
22. Lord Curzon announced the partition of Bengal on :
16 October 1911
16 October 1896
16 October 1907
16 October 1905
23. Whose statement is this –“The Indians should no longer be satisfied with mere mendicancy neither should they beg the English for concessions”?
V N Mandalik
Lala Lajpat Rai
Bipin Chandra Pal
Abdul Kalam Azad
24. Which Indian revolutionary was called by the Britishers as ‘The Father of Indian Disaffection and biggest traitor’?
Lala Lajpat Rai
Lala Hardyal
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
M G Ranade
25. Who was the founder of a society known as ‘Abhinav Bharat’ ?
J K Hikki
B B Upadhyay
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
None of the above
26. Maulana qasim Nanautavi, Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, Sheikhul Hind Maulana- Mahmud-ul Hasan were the prominent figures who represented?
Deoband Movement
Santhal Movement
Indigo Movement
None of these
27. In the history of Indian National Movement Santhal Rebellion took place between :
1845-47
1849-50
1855-56
1866-67
28. The famine which killed nearly 8 lakh people during British rule as per the report furnished by the Femine Commissioon of 1660 had struck :
Eastern India
Northern India
Southern India
Western India
29. Who called the revolt of 1857 as a war between barbarism and civilization?
V A Smith
T. R. Holmes
J K Hikki
Sir Ahmed Khan
30. Who is the author of the book ‘The Great Rebellion’?
Robert Knight
T N Das
Ashok Mehta
K M Pannikar
31. Who said, “this (the revolt 1857) was an eruption of social volcano, where many spent forces found vent. After the eruption, the whole social topography had changed; the scars if rebellion remained deep and shining?”
J K Hikki
Ashok Mehta
K M Pannikar
None of the above
32. Sisir Kumar Ghosh, Shambhuchand Mukherhee, Kali Mohan Das and Jogesh Chandra Dutt were editors of:
Amrit Bazar Patrika
Hindu
Sudharak
Yugantar
33. Which of the British Acts provided for the establishment of All India Federation at the centre ?
The Government of India Act 1935.
The Government of India Act 1919.
Indian Independence act 1947
The Registration act 1908
34. The Cabinet mission arrived in Delhi on:
August 24 1946
May 24 1946
March 24 1946
April 24 1946
35. The British government declared Communist Party of India illegal in:
1924
1934
1930
1939
36. Under which British Act was the provision to establish a Federation of India concession of Governor’s provinces and Princely states made?
Government of India Act 1918
Government of India Act 1925
Government of India Act 1930
Government of India Act 1935
37. When was Poona Pact between Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar signed?
In 1920
In 1925
In 1928
In 1932
38. The British Prime Minister Atlee announced the withdrawal of the Britishers in the House of Commons from India on
February 20 1942
February 20 1947
March 20 1947
March 20 1942
39. Who said, “India is for Indians?”
Syed Hasan Imam
Mahatma Gandhi
Dr. S.Gopal
Dayanand Saraswati
40. Who said,” One Country One God, One Caste, one Mind brothers all of us Without Difference, without Doubt ?”
V.
Savarkar
Syed Hasan Imam
Lala Lajpat Rai
41. United India House organizes Unity among Indians in the United states of America in
1906
1908
1910
1917
42. The Indian People play people’s role in the people’s war was the slogan of:
The Forward Block
Indian National Congress
Communist Party of India
None of these
43. Who in the year 1907 unfurled the first national flag at the International socialist conference in Stuttgart (Germany)?
Madame Bhikaji Cama
Subash Chandra Bose
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Sardar Patel
44. In 1942 who appealed the Britishers to leave India in God’s hands?
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Mohhamad Ali Jinnah
Sardar patel
Mahatma Gandhi
45. Individual Satyagrah – symbolic and non-violent in nature was started on:
October 17 1942
October 17 1940
October 17 1939
October 17 1938
46. In 1906 to protest discrimination against Indians in S. Africa Mahatma Gandhi started
Satyagraha at Durban
Satyagraha at Cape Town
Satyagraha at Port Elizabeth
Satyagraha at Johannesburg
47. Which slogan was given by the Congress in opposition to British Government involving India in Second World War in 1939 without consulting the people of India ?
Karo ya Maro
Nahi Karenge Nahi Ladenge
Na koi bhai na koi pai.
None of these
48. Subhash Chandra Bose was elected the president of the Indian national congress :
Ramgarh Session 1940
Bombay Session 1934
Tripuri session 1939
Wardha Session 1942
49. Bal Gangadhar Tilak began his drive for new awakening among the Indians by publishing two newspapers in 1881
The Maratha and Kesari
The Maratha and Samwad
The Samwad and Kesari
The Maratha and Kumudi
50. In the elections held in 1937 under the provisions of the Government of India Act of 1935 Congress Ministries were formed in :
Eleven States
Nine States
Five States
Ten States
51. Whom did the Britishers call the father of Indian disaffection and the biggest traitor?
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Lala Hardayal
Lala Lajpat Rai
None of these
52. Who established in 1893 the society for the removal of Obstacles to the Hindu Religion?
Dayanand Sarshawati
Raja Ram Mohan Rai
The Chapekar brothers
None of these
53. Raja Rammohan Roy founded Brahma samaj on
20 August1838 B. C. D.
20 Augus 1828
20 August1848
20 August1858
54. Gandhiji launched the Non-cooperation movement in:
The year 1910
The year 1915
The year 1917
The year 1920
55. Swami Sahajanand Saraswati was the first president of
All India Hindu Mahasabha
All India Unity Mahasabha
All India Kisan Mahasabha
None of these
56. From where did the quit India Movement begin?
Calcutta
Mysore
Bombay
Pune
57. Abhinav Bharat organized in 1904 was :
Hindu Mahashabha
A secret society of revolutionary activists
All India Kisan Mahasabha
None of these
58. The major Muslim organizations which opposed the partition of India were
The Jamiat-Ulema-hind
Khudai Khidmatgar
Majlis-e-Ahrar –Hind
All of the these
59. Who was the selected as first satyagrahi by Mahatma Gandhi to begin individual satyagraha in 1940?
Vinoba Bhave
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Brahma Datt
Annie Besant
60. Who was the mastermind of bomb attack on Lord Hardinge at chandani chowk in Delhi in 1912?
Amir Chand
Avadh Behari
Rasbihari Bose
Basant Kumar Biswas
61. Quit India movement began on:
August 9 1940
August 9 1941
August 8 1942
August 9 1944
62. Under which document was the separate electorate granted for muslims ?
Charter Act of 1813
The Permanent Settlement
Mahalwari System Reforms
Morley Minto Reforms
63. Lucknow pact of 1916 was between:
Indian Muslim League and Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Muslim League and Indian National congress
Indian National congress and Lord Hardinge
Lord Hardinge and Mahatma Gandhi
64. During the tenure of which Governor general was the resolution of total independence passed?
Lord Irwin
Lord Minto
Lord Chelmsford
Lord Reading
65. The main centre of Wahabi Movement during the freedom movement was
Lucknow
Mysore
Patna
Delhi
66. Swami Dayanand established the head quarters of Arya Samaj in:
Calcutta
Lahore
Mumbai
Chennai
67. In 1912 Mohammad Ali started the paper
The Native Opinion
The New India
Al-Balagh
The Comrade
68. The Indian National congress decided to launch an individual civil disobedience in place of Mass civil Disobedience in:
1942
1935
1933
1928
69. Which Act provided for the establishment of an All India federation at the centre consisting of the provinces of British India and the princely states?
The Government of India Act 1935
Government of India Act 1918
Government of India Act 1925
Government of India Act 1930
70. When did Mahatma Gandhi go on fast unto death for the first time?
1921
1917
1918
1915
71. What is called the magna carta of Western Education system in Indian?
Dispatch of Charles wood secretary of state 1854
Slavery Bill for Education
Wonder of Education refoms
None of these
72. Who led the revolt of 1857 in Lucknow?
Bahadur Shah Jafar
Jung Bahadur Rana
Begum Hazrat Mahal
Tatya Tope
73. Who said “one religion one caste and one God for mankind?”
Dayanand Sarshwati
Swami Sachidanand Sarshwati
Swami Ramanand Sarshwati
Narayan Guru
74. On what ground did the second split in the congress take place in 1918?
Charter act of India
Montague Chelmsford Declaration
Morley Minto Reforms
None of these
75. Which revolutionary wrote books Colour of Swadeshi and Revolutionary Life?
Bhagat Singh
Sukhdev
Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil
Raj Guru
76. Which revolutionary was associated with the foundation of the Punjab Navjivan Bharat Sabha in 1926?
Rash Behari Bose
Amir Chand
Basant Kumar Biswas
Bhagat Singh
77. The novel ‘Neel Darpan’ depicting the harassment and oppression of Indigo farmers by the Britishers was written by:
M M Malviya
Bipin Chandra Pal
Tara Shankar Bandhopadhyay
Sisir Kumar Ghosh
78. Who led the revolt in 1857 in Bihar and defeated the British Army near Aara?
Bahadur Shah Jafar
Kunwar Singh
Tatya Tope
Mangal Pandey
79. Who wrote famous thesis entitled ‘South India in 1857: war of Independence’:
J K Hikki
K M Pannikar
. M G Ranade
Savarkar
80. Who has written about the revolt of 1857- ‘this was an eruption of social volcano’ where many spent forces found vent. After the vent the whole social topography has changed. The scars of rebellion remained deep and shining?”
Brahma Datt
V.
Savarkar
Ashok Mehta
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