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Quick Quiz
Who among the following was a proponent of Fabianism as a movement?
(a) Annie Besant
(b) AO Hume
(c) Michael Madhusudan Dutt
(d) DR Palme Dutt
Option a – Annie Besant
The movement in India which became popular during the First World War was the
(a) Swadeshi Movement and Boycott Movement
(b) Home Rule Movement
(c) Separatist Movement
(d) Swaraj Party Movement
Option b – Home Rule Movement
Who among the following did not contribute to the Home Rule League?
(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(b) Annie Besant
(c) S Subrahmanyam Ayer
(d) TS Alcott
Option d – TS Alcott
Which of the following is not associated with the Home Rule Movement?
(a) CR Das
(b) S Subramania Iyer
(c) Annie Besant
(d) BG Tilak
Option a – CR Das
The Home Rule Leagues of Tilak and Annie Besant were merged into one in
(a) 1916
(b) 1918
(c) 1920
(d) 1923
Option b – 1918
Tilak formed his Home Rule League in 1916 at
(a) Satara
(b) Pune
(c) Belgaum
(d) Berar
Option c – Belgaum
In 1920, which of the following changed its name to “Swarajya Sabha”?
(a) All India Home Rule League
(b) Hindu Mahasabha
(c) South Indian Liberal Federation
(d) The Servants of India Society
Option a – All India Home Rule League
Which of the following is the most significant contribution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to modern India?
(a) His presidentship of the Indian National Congress
(b) His role in the Non-Cooperation Movement
(c) His participation in the Quit India Movement
(d) His achievement of integration of princely states
Option d – His achievement of integration of princely states
Which of the following revolutionaries had participated in the Non-Cooperation Movement and was a teacher in the national school in Chittagong?
(a) Jatin Das
(b) Surya Sen
(c) Bhagat Singh
(d) Chandrasekhar Azad
Option b – Surya Sen
Who is the author of the concept of Antyodaya?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Vinoba Bhave
(c) Sri Aurobindo
(d) Jayaprakash Narayan
Option b – Vinoba Bhave
Who was the leader of the Indian revolutionary activities in America?
(a) Shyamji Krishna Varma
(b) Lala Hardayal
(c) V.D. Savarkar
(d) Sardarsingh Rana
Option b – Lala Hardayal
The agitation against the partition of Bengal was led by:
(a) Surendranath Banerjee
(b) C. R. Das
(c) Subhash Chandra Bose
(d) Aruna Asaf Ali
Option a – Surendranath Banerjee
A series of articles by Aurobindo Ghosh known as ‘Doctrine of Passive Resistance’ are associated with which one of the following movements?
(a) Swadeshi and Boycott movement
(b) Civil Disobedience movement
(c) Non-Cooperation movement
(d) Young Bengal movement
Option a – Swadeshi and Boycott movement
Cripps’ Mission aimed at:
(a) giving complete independence to a united India
(b) widening the gulf between the Congress and the Muslim League
(c) a compromise between Congress’s demand for a united India and the Muslim League’s demand for a partitioned India
(d) giving proportional representation to Muslims under the framework of the new Constitution
Option c – a compromise between Congress’s demand of a united India and the Muslim League’s demand for a partitioned India
After the Commission of Inquiry into the problems of the peasants of Champaran came out with its decisions, Gandhi arranged a compromise with the planters that they:
(a) compensate the peasants for ten years of paying excessive revenue
(b) refund the money taken from the peasants that year
(c) refund twenty-five percent of the money they had taken illegally from the peasants
(d) stop their indigo plantation activity in return for cooperation from the peasants
Option c – refund twenty-five percent of the money they had taken illegally from the peasants
Who was the Chairman of the Boundary Commission to define the boundaries of the dominions under the Indian Independence Act of 1947?
(a) Lord Wavell
(b) Stafford Cripps
(c) Lord Mountbatten
(d) Cyril Radcliffe
Option d – Cyril Radcliffe
When the Indian Muslim League was inducted into the interim government in 1946, Liyaqat Ali Khan was assigned the portfolio of:
(a) foreign affairs
(b) home
(c) finance
(d) defense
Option c – finance
The Quit India Movement saw the emergence of what came to be called ‘parallel governments’. The first such was:
(a) the Jatiya Sarkar in Midnapore, Bengal
(b) in Ballia (East U.P.) under Chittu Pande
(c) Prati Sarkar under Nana Patil in Gujarat
(d) in Satara, Maharashtra, under Y.B. Chavan
Option b – in Ballia (East U.P.) under Chittu Pande
“A graduate at 18, professor and associate editor of the Sudharak at 20, Secretary of the Sarvajanik Sabha and of the Provincial Conference at 25, Secretary of the National Congress at 29, a leading witness before an important Royal Commission at 31, Provincial legislator at 34, Imperial legislator at 36, President of the Indian National Congress at 39 a patriot whom Mahatma Gandhi himself regarded as his master”. This is how a biographer describes:
(a) Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya
(b) Mahadev Govind Ranade
(c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Option c – Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Which one of the following aroused a wave of popular indignation that led to the massacre by the British at Jallianwala Bagh?
(a) The Arms Act
(b) The Public Safety Act
(c) The Rowlatt Act
(d) The Vernacular Press Act
Option c – The Rowlatt Act
Swarajya was declared as the goal of the Congress at its session held in 1906 at:
(a) Bombay
(b) Calcutta
(c) Lucknow
(d) Madras
Option b – Calcutta
Who coined the slogan “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan”?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(d) Sardar Patel
Option c – Lal Bahadur Shastri
Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru had fundamental differences of opinion regarding:
(a) mass mobilisation
(b) non-violence as state policy
(c) need for rapid industrialization of India
(d) protection of minorities and weaker sections of society
Option c – need for rapid industrialization of India
Who was the leading personality in the Delhi Conspiracy Case in which a bomb thrown at a procession of Lord Hardinge taken out in Chandni Chowk on Dec 23, 1913, killed the A.D.C. of the Viceroy?
(a) Madan Lal Dhingra
(b) Ras Behari Bose
(c) V.D. Savarkar
(d) Birendra Kumar Ghosh
Option b – Ras Behari Bose
Annie Besant enjoyed the Presidentship of the INC at its session held in:
(a) 1916
(b) 1917
(c) 1918
(d) 1920
Option b – 1917
Who was the political guru of Gandhiji?
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji
(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(d) Lala Lajpat Rai
Option c – Gopal Krishna Gokhale
On the death of Gandhiji, who said “The light has gone out of our lives”?
(a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Dr. S. Radhakrishna
(d) Lord Mountbatten
Option b – Jawaharlal Nehru
When Congress leaders condemned the Montague-Chelmsford Report, many moderates left the party to form the
(a) Swarajya Party
(b) Indian Freedom Party
(c) Independence Federation of India
(d) Indian Liberal Federation
Option d – Indian Liberal Federation
The Government of India Act, of 1935, prescribed a federation of the provinces and the Princely States as its units. The federation part of the Act never took effect, because
(a) Congress did not accept it
(b) the Muslim League did not accept it
(c) some of the provinces did not accept it
(d) the rulers of the Indian states never gave their consent to join the federation
Option d – the rulers of the Indian states never gave their consent to join the federation
The ‘August Offer’ of 1940 sought to conciliate Congress by assuming
(a) the setting up of a representative Indian body to frame a new constitution
(b) the government’s assurance to protect the political rights of minorities
(c) that there would be no partition of India
(d) that separate electorates would not be provided for the depressed classes
Option a – the setting up of a representative Indian body to frame a new constitution
In Mar 1908, who was elected as the ‘Permanent’ president of the Muslim League?
(a) Nawab Salimullah
(b) Syed Ahmad Khan
(c) Aga Khan
(d) Syed Amir Ali
Option c – Aga Khan
Which of the following statements regarding Mohammad Ali Jinnah is not true?
(a) He was Dadabhai Naoroji’s secretary at the Calcutta session of Congress in 1906.
(b) He became a communal nationalist in 1913 when he joined the Muslim League.
(c) He and Tilak were the joint authors of the Lucknow Pact.
(d) In 1919-20, he wholeheartedly supported Gandhi’s call for a non-violent non-cooperation.
Option d – In 1919-20, he wholeheartedly supported Gandhi’s call for a non-violent non-cooperation
Which of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched?
(a) Santhal 1855
(b) Kol 1831
(c) Khasi 1829
(d) Ahom 1815
Option d – Ahom 1815
The editor of the paper “Hindu Patriot” Sri Harishchandra Mukherjee was known to have helped the
(a) Santhal Revolt
(b) Indigo Revolt
(c) Revolt of the Mundas
(d) None of the above
Option b – Indigo Revolt
Who took over the ‘Eka Movement’ started by the Congress in Awadh during 1921-1922?
(a) Bhagwan Ahir
(b) Madari Pasi
(c) Baba Ramchandra
(d) Shah Naeem Ata
Option b – Madari Pasi
Name the first major voluntary association representing primarily Indian landlord interests that was set up in Calcutta in 1851.
(a) British Indian Association
(b) Landholder’s Society
(c) Madras Native Association
(d) Bombay Association
Option a – British Indian Association
Name the rebel who fought against the British in the battle of Chinhat in the course of the 1857 Revolt.
(a) Ahmadullah Shah
(b) Shah Mal
(c) Mangal Pandey
(d) Kunwar Singh
Option a – Ahmadullah Shah
Who among the following died in exile?
(a) Rani Laxmibai
(b) Bahadur Shah Zafar
(c) Tantia Tope
(d) Nana Saheb
Option b – Bahadur Shah Zafar
The Azamgarh Proclamation of August 25, 1857, stressed which one of the following issues?
(a) Hindu-Muslim divide
(b) Support to the English Government
(c) The return of the Badshahi
(d) The imposition of heavy Jumas revenue demand
Option b – Support to the English Government
Which among the following events happened earliest?
(a) Swami Dayanand established Arya Samaj.
(b) Dinabandhu Mitra wrote Neeldarpan.
(c) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote Anandmath.
(d) Satyendranath Tagore became the first Indian to succeed in the Indian Civil Services Examination.
Option b – Dinabandhu Mitra wrote Neeldarpan
Which one of the following social reformers strongly opposed the Jury Act of 1826?
(a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(c) Mahadev Govind Ranade
(d) Rajnarayan Basu
Option b – Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Which one of the following statements about the Indigo Revolt of 1859 is correct?
(a) It broke out at Poona and Ahmadnagar
(b) It was directed against moneylenders
(c) It was supported by the intelligentsia of Bengal
(d) It was directed against the petty Zamindars and ex-employees of the planters
Option c – It was supported by the intelligentsia of Bengal
Who among the following was the founder of the Young Bengal Young Movement?
(a) Henry Vivian Derozio
(b) David Hare
(c) Dwarkanath Tagore
(d) Prasanna Kumar Tagore
Option a – Henry Vivian Derozio
Dewan Velu Thampi’s rebellion against the British took place in the Indian state of :
(a) Awadh
(b) Kashmir
(c) Travancore
(d) Mysore
Option c – Travancore
The title ‘Raja’ was conferred on Ram Mohun Roy by the Mughal emperor :
(a) Jahandar Shah
(b) Mohammad Shah
(c) Akbar II
(d) Bahadur Shah Zafar
Option c – Akbar II
The custom of ‘Sati’ was banned through legislation in the year :
(a) 1795
(b) 1800
(c) 1829
(d) 1858
Option c – 1829
The leader of the Munda rebellion (Ulgulan) was :
(a) Sidho
(b) Birsa
(c) Bapat
(d) Korra Malya
Option b – Birsa
……. was the center of the Aligarh movement.
(a) The Deoband School
(b) The Anglo-Oriental College
(c) Pir-Fakir Majlis
(d) The Khilafat Committee
Option b – The Anglo-Oriental College
With which Revolt names of Sidhu and Kanu are associated?
(a) Santhal
(b) Chakma
(c) Khasi
(d) Indigo
Option a – Santhal
The Jury Act of 1827 was opposed by many Indians. One of the grounds for opposing it was that it denied both to the Hindus and Mohammedans the honor of a seat on the Grand Jury. Which among the following was known for his opposition to the Jury Act?
(a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(b) Lord Sinha
(c) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
(d) Raja Rammohan Roy
Option d – Raja Rammohan Roy
Which one among the following prominently rose in revolt against the British in 1857?
(a) Punjab Army
(b) Madras Regiment
(c) Bengal Army
(d) Awadh Regiment
Option c – Bengal Army
Which of these was/were associated with the Bombay Association?
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji
(b) Dinshaw Wacha
(c) Both of them
(d) Neither of them
Option c – Both of them
Which of the following was/were associated with the formation of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FICCI)?
(a) G.D. Birla
(b) Thakurdas
(c) Both of them
(d) Neither of them
Option c – Both of them
The maximum work in popularizing female education in the nineteenth century was done by:
(a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(b) J.E.D. Bethune
(c) D.K. Karve
(d) the British Government
Option a – Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Which of the following prominently fought for and got widow remarriage legalized?
(a) M.G. Ranade
(b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(c) Raja Rammohan Roy
(d) Annie Besant
Option b – Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Which of the following was a feature of the Aligarh Movement?
(a) Anglo-Muslim alliance for the security of the Muslims in India
(b) Socio-religious reforms in the Muslim community
(c) To counter the missionary activities of Christianity
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Option d – Both (a) and (b)
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