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The day commemorating the Azad Hind Fauj was observed on
A) 12th November, 1945
B) 11th November, 1945
C) 5th November, 1945
D) 10th November, 1945
Option a – 12th November, 1945
Which member of the Azad Hind Fauj received a seven-year prison sentence?
A) Aruna Asaf Ali
B) Shahnawaz
C) Rashid Ali
D) Rash Behari Bose
Option c – Rashid Ali
Which officer of the Azad Hind Fauj did not participate in the Red Fort trials?
A) Gurdayal Singh
B) Prem Sehgal
C) Mohan Singh
D) Shahnawaz
Option c – Mohan Singh
Who led the legal team defending the Indian National Army in the 1945 Red Fort trials?
A) Bhulabhai Desai
B) Kailash Nath Katju
C) Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru
D) Jawaharlal Nehru
Option a – Bhulabhai Desai
The INA trials at Red Fort, Delhi, were held in
A) 1945
B) 1946
C) 1944
D) 1947
Option a – 1945
Who represented the INA officers during the Red Fort trial?
A) C.R. Das
B) Motilal Nehru
C) M.A. Jinnah
D) Sir T.B. Sapru
Option d – Sir T.B. Sapru
Who was not part of the legal defense in the 1945 INA Red Fort trial?
A) Bhulabhai Desai
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
D) Dr. Kailash Nath Katju
Option c – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
During the Congress Working Committee meeting in Allahabad (April-May 1947), who won support for guerilla action against the Japanese?
A) Subhash Chandra Bose
B) Sarojini Naidu
C) Maulana Azad
D) Jawaharlal Nehru
Option d – Jawaharlal Nehru
The 1946 Cabinet Mission was chaired by
A) Lord Attlee
B) Strafford Cripps
C) Clement Attlee
D) Sir P. Lawrence
Option d – Sir P. Lawrence
The Cabinet Mission reached India in
A) February 1942
B) March 1942
C) April 1946
D) May 1942
Option c – April 1946
Who was the head of the 1946 Cabinet Mission?
A) Hugh Gaitskell
B) Sir John Simon
C) Sir Pethick-Lawrence
D) None of the above
Option c – Sir Pethick-Lawrence
Which mission arrived in India in 1946 after the Second World War?
A) Cripps Mission
B) Cabinet Mission
C) Wavell Mission
D) Simon Commission
Option b – Cabinet Mission
Who proposed a three-tier structure for India’s government?
A) Nehru Committee
B) Simon Commission
C) Cripps Mission
D) Cabinet Mission
Option d – Cabinet Mission
Cabinet Mission of 1946 had three members. Who was not a member?
A) Lord Pethick Lawrence
B) A.V. Alexander
C) Sir Stafford Cripps
D) Lord Emery
Option d – Lord Emery
Which of the following was not part of the Cabinet Mission?
A) Pethick Lawrence
B) John Simon
C) Stafford Cripps
D) A.V. Alexander
Option b – John Simon
Who was also not a member of the Cabinet Mission?
A) William Wood
B) Pethick Lawrence
C) Sir Stafford Cripps
D) A.V. Alexander
Option a – William Wood
The statement “proposals made in May aimed at a united India with a Federal Union of British provinces” refers to
A) Simon Commission
B) Gandhi-Irwin Pact
C) Cripps Mission
D) Cabinet Mission
Option d – Cabinet Mission
Which of the following is incorrect regarding the Cabinet Mission Plan?
A) Provincial Grouping
B) Interim Cabinet of Indians
C) Acceptance of Pakistan
D) Constitution Framing Right
Option c – Acceptance of Pakistan
Who suggested reorganizing the Viceroy’s Executive Council with all portfolios, including war, held by Indians?
A) Simon Commission, 1927
B) Shimla Conference, 1945
C) Cripps Mission, 1940
D) Cabinet Mission, 1946
Option d – Cabinet Mission, 1946
With regard to the Cabinet Mission, which statements are correct? 1. Recommended a federal government. 2. Expanded powers of Indian courts. 3. Increased Indian representation in the ICS.
A) Only 1
B) Only 2 and 3
C) Only 1 and 3
D) None of the above
Option a – Only 1
Which Congress leader fully supported the Cabinet Mission Plan?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Sardar Patel
D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Option a – Mahatma Gandhi
Which Congress President held negotiations with both the Cripps Mission and Lord Wavell?
A) Abul Kalam Azad
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) J.B. Kripalani
D) C. Rajagopalachari
Option a – Abul Kalam Azad
Which of the following was not included as a feature of the Government of India Act, 1935?
A) Diarchy at both the central and provincial levels
B) A legislature with two houses
C) Autonomy for provinces
D) Formation of an All India Federation
Option a – Diarchy at both the central and provincial levels
What was the underlying motive of the British for including Princely States in the Federal Union under the India Act of 1935?
A) To gain greater political and administrative control
B) To actively involve princes in governance
C) To ultimately bring all princely states under British control
D) To use princely rulers to counter nationalist influence
Option d – To use princely rulers to counter nationalist influence
Who remarked that the Government of India Act, 1935 was “like a car with brakes but no engine”?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) C. Rajagopalachari
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) Subhash Chandra Bose
Option a – Jawaharlal Nehru
During which session did the Indian National Congress reject the Government of India Act, 1935?
A) Ramgarh Session, 1940
B) Lucknow Session, 1936
C) Faizpur Session
D) None of the above
Option b – Lucknow Session, 1936
Who described the Government of India Act, 1935 as the “Charter of Slavery”?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) M.A. Jinnah
C) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Option a – Jawaharlal Nehru
In the Constitution of India (1950), the ‘Instrumentation of Instructions’ from the Government of India Act, 1935 was adapted as
B) Directive Principles of State Policy
C) Scope of Executive Authority of States
D) Procedures for Conducting Government Business
Option d – Directive Principles of State Policy
Who said, “I do not need to apologize for the fact that the draft Constitution has reproduced major provisions from the Government of India Act, 1935”?
A) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
B) Sardar Patel
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Option d – Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Consider these points regarding the Government of India Act, 1935: 1. Introduced provincial autonomy 2. Established a Federal Court 3. Created a federation at the Centre. Which of these are correct?
A) Only 1 and 2
B) Only 2 and 3
C) Only 1 and 3
D) All 1, 2, and 3
Option d – All 1, 2, and 3
The Poona Pact was an agreement reached between
A) Gandhi and Ambedkar
B) Nehru and Ambedkar
C) Nehru and Gandhi
D) Ambedkar and Malviya
Option a – Gandhi and Ambedkar
In which year was the Ramakrishna Mission founded by Swami Vivekananda?
A) 1892
B) 1897
C) 1902
D) 1904
Option b – 1897
Who presided over the historic Lucknow Session of the Congress in 1916?
A) Mrs. Annie Besant
B) R.N. Mudhokar
C) Ambika Charan Majumdar
D) Madan Mohan Malviya
Option c – Ambika Charan Majumdar
Who assassinated Michael O’Dyer, the Punjab Governor responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
A) Madan Lal Dhingra
B) Sardar Udham Singh
C) Sohan Singh Bharka
D) Kanai Lal Dutt
Option b – Sardar Udham Singh
Vital-Vidhvansak, a monthly journal aimed at untouchable communities, was published by
A) Gopal Baba Walangkar
B) Jyotiba Phule
C) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
D) Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Option a – Gopal Baba Walangkar
Who orchestrated the bombing of Viceroy Lord Hardinge at Chandni Chowk, Delhi in December 1912?
A) Rasbehari Basu
B) Bhai Parmanand
C) Sachindranath Sanyal
D) Shobhan Lal Pathak
Option a – Rasbehari Basu
Which Indian revolutionary, a professor of Sanskrit and Philosophy at Berkeley and Stanford, eventually died as a sanyasi in Philadelphia?
A) Shyamji Krishna Verma
B) Lala Hardayal
C) Bhai Parmanand
D) Ram Chandra Bhardwaj
Option b – Lala Hardayal
In 1903, who mocked the idea of Swarajya by saying, “Only mad men outside lunatic asylums could think or talk of independence”?
A) Lord Curzon
B) Lord Hardinge
C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
D) Pheroze Shah Mehta
Option c – Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Where did Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose first hoist the Indian national flag?
A) Imphal
B) Port Blair
C) Kohima
D) Delhi
Option c – Kohima
After parting ways with the Congress, in which year did Subhas Chandra Bose establish the Forward Bloc?
A) 1939
B) 1938
C) 1940
D) 1941
Option a – 1939
Lord Mountbatten’s declaration regarding India’s freedom and its partition is popularly called
A) The August Plan
B) The June 3rd Plan
C) The June 2nd Plan
D) The Partition Plan
Option a – The August Plan
Kunwar Singh, a key leader in the 1857 revolt, belonged to which region?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Rajasthan
D) Bihar
Option d – Bihar
Who served as the Commander-in-Chief of Rani Chennamma’s army, using guerrilla tactics against the British in Karnataka?
A) Muduvidu Krishnarao
B) Aluru Venkata Rao
C) Jogi Beeranna Nayak
D) Sangolli Rayanna
Option d – Sangolli Rayanna
What was the core principle of Gandhi’s Basic Education (Wardha) Scheme?
A) Learning through activity
B) Learning through productivity
C) Earning and learning
D) Learning and spinning
Option a – Learning through activity
The four brigades of the Indian National Army were named after
A) Lal, Bal, Pal, Subhas
B) Surya, Chandra, Jatin, Bhagat
C) Gandhi, Azad, Nehru, Subhas
D) Ganga, Yamuna, Narmada, Kaveri
Option c – Gandhi, Azad, Nehru, Subhas
Who from Karnataka took part in Gandhi’s Dandi March (Salt Satyagraha)?
A) M.P. Nadkarni
B) K.I. Bhashyam
C) Mailara Mahadevappa
D) T. Siddalingaiah
Option a – M.P. Nadkarni
The Hartog Committee Report primarily dealt with
A) Development of education in British India and its future possibilities
B) Implementation of diarchy under Montagu-Chelmsford reforms
C) Reviewing constitutional features for future political reforms
D) Conditions of laborers and recommendations for labor laws
Option a – Development of education in British India and its future possibilities
Gandhiji described which proposal as “a post-dated cheque drawn on a crashing Bank”?
A) Cripps Mission offer of Dominion Status after World War II
B) Mont-Ford reforms for gradual self-rule
C) Simon Commission recommendations
D) None of the above
Option a – Cripps Mission offer of Dominion Status after World War II
Who led the Flag Satyagraha organized by the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) at Shivapura?
A) Mailara Mahadevappa
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) T. Siddalingaiah
D) K.C. Reddy
Option c – T. Siddalingaiah
The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association movement concluded with the death of
A) Bhagat Singh
B) Ram Prasad Bismil
C) Chandra Sekhar Azad
D) Jogesh Chandra Chatterji
Option c – Chandra Sekhar Azad
Who was the main organizer of the 1857 revolt in Bihar?
A) Amar Singh
B) Kunwar Singh
C) Pir Ali
D) Imaduddin
Option b – Kunwar Singh
What title was conferred upon Jayaprakash Narayan?
A) Praja Hitechhu
B) Lok Nayak
C) Lokmanya
D) Rashtra Nayak
Option b – Lok Nayak
Which day did the Indian National Congress declare as Purna Swaraj Day? ( Indian National Movement 1885-1905 mcqs )
A) 26-01-1930
B) 15-08-1947
C) 30-01-1948
D) 31-12-1950
Option a – 26-01-1930
Which of the following pairings is accurate? ( Indian National Movement 1885-1905 mcqs )
A) Vinoba Bhave : Second Individual Satyagrahi
B) C.R. Das : Deshbandhu
C) William Wedderburn : Congress President in 1907
D) Shyamji Krishna Varma : Founder of India House, Paris
Option b – C.R. Das : Deshbandhu
Which Indian movement was a direct response to the Partition of Bengal? ( Indian National Movement 1885-1905 mcqs )
A) Non-Cooperation Movement
B) Civil Disobedience Movement
C) Swadeshi Movement
D) Purna Swaraj Movement
Option c – Swadeshi Movement
How long did the Dandi March last? ( Indian National Movement 1885-1905 mcqs )
A) 10 days
B) 20 days
C) 24 days
D) 30 days
Option c – 24 days
Which is not a characteristic of the Nehru-Mahalanobis model of economic development? ( Indian National Movement 1885-1905 mcqs )
A) Focus on capital goods industries
B) Major State involvement combined with deregulation
C) Disinvestment in public sector
D) Emphasis on the public sector’s importance
Option c – Disinvestment in public sector
British Prime Minister Attlee declared the end of British rule in India on ( Indian National Movement 1885-1905 MCQs )
A) 20 February, 1947
B) 16 August, 1946
C) 7 March, 1947
D) 9 December, 1946
Option c – 7 March, 1947
Where did Madam Cama first unfurl India’s tricolour flag? ( Indian National Movement 1885-1905 MCQs )
A) Paris
B) London
C) Stuttgart
D) Geneva
Option c – Stuttgart
Subhas Chandra Bose was elected President of the INC during which Haripur session? ( Indian National Movement 1885-1905 MCQs )
A) 1936
B) 1937
C) 1938
D) 1939
Option c – 1938
Which lawyer represented the INA officers during the 1945–46 trials in Delhi? ( Indian National Movement 1885-1905 MCQs )
A) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
B) Bhulabhai Desai
C) K.M. Munshi
D) Sardar Patel
Option b – Bhulabhai Desai
Jatin Das, involved in the Lahore Conspiracy Case, died after fasting for how many days? ( Indian National Movement 1885-1905 MCQs )
A) 56
B) 63
C) 72
D) 81
Option b – 63
What major difference between Subhas Chandra Bose and the Gandhi-Nehru group caused Gandhiji’s candidate to lose the INC Presidentship? ( Indian National Movement 1885-1905 MCQs )
A) Gandhiji personally disliked Bose
B) Bose had radical and socialist leanings
C) Bose sought to leverage the Germany-Britain conflict for India’s benefit
D) Bose accused Gandhiji of being unwilling to continue the freedom struggle
Option c – Bose sought to leverage the Germany-Britain conflict for India’s benefit
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