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Wbcs preliminary (inm) sectional test - Test Set 1

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  1. Question 1

    Who observed: “The Congress in reality a civil war without arm”?
    1. Lord Dufferin
    2. M.A. Jinnah
    3. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
    4. Lord Curzon
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  2. Question 2

    The Vaikkom Satyagraha was launched in 1924 for:
    1. opening the temples to the low castes Hindus.
    2. Fighting against the exploitation by the landlords.
    3. Removal of Press restrictions.
    4. Democratization of the administration of Travancore state.
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  3. Question 3

    The first Satyagrahi selected by Mahatma Gandhi to launch the Individual Satyagraha in October 1940, was
    1. C. Rajagopalachari
    2. Vallabhbhai Patel
    3. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
    4. J.B. Kripalani
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  4. Question 4

    After the Surat Split in 1907, the second split in the Congress took place in 1918 on the issue of?
    1. Lucknow Pact
    2. Montagu Declaration
    3. Election of Mrs. Annie Besant as President of the INC (1917)
    4. Both (B) and (C) above
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  5. Question 5

    Which of the following acted as President of the Indian National Congress for six consecutive years?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Dadabhai Naoroji
    3. Abul Kalam Azad
    4. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
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  6. Question 6

    The youngest President of the Indian National Congress, who held that office at the age of 35, was
    1. Rash Bihari Ghosh
    2. Subhas Chandra Bose
    3. Abul Kalam Azad
    4. Lala Lajpat Rai
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  7. Question 7

    After the partition of Bengal, the two new provinces which came into existence were
    1. East Bengal and Bengal
    2. East Bengal and West Bengal
    3. East Bengal and Assam
    4. East Bengal and North Bengal
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  8. Question 8

    The leader of the Ghadar Party in Bengal and Orissa was
    1. Jatindranath Mukherjee
    2. Jatindranath das
    3. Barindra Ghosh
    4. M. N. Roy
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  9. Question 9

    Who gave the tittle of Rani to the Naga women leader Gaidinliu?
    1. Subhas Bose
    2. Jawaharlal Nehru
    3. Thakkar Bapa
    4. Mahatma Gandhi
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  10. Question 10

    The historical importance of the second session of the INC Calcutta in 1886 was that —
    1. There was merger between the INC and the National Confederation.
    2. It was presided over by Dadabhai Naoraji.
    3. The great scholar Rajendralal Mitra was the President of its local Reception Committee.
    4. All of the above
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  11. Question 11

    Mahatma Gandhi presided over the Annual Session of Congress only once at :
    1. Kakinada, 1923
    2. Belgaum, 1925
    3. Kanpur, 1925
    4. Gauhati, 1926
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  12. Question 12

    Who was the instrumental in founding the National Planning Committee (The forerunner of the Planning Commission) in 1938, for drawing up a plan of economic development on the basis of industrialization?
    1. Subhas Chandra Bose
    2. Jawaharlal Nehru
    3. Mahatma Gandhi
    4. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
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  13. Question 13

    The British Committee of the Indian National Congress was started in 1889 under the chairmanship of:
    1. Dadabhai Naoroji
    2. A. O. Hume
    3. W. Digby
    4. W. Wedderburn
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  14. Question 14

    Which of the following are known as the Bombay Triumvirate?
    1. B.G. Tilak, G. K. Gokhale and M. B. Namjoshi
    2. Ferozshah Mehta, K. T. Telang and Badruddin Tyabji
    3. B. G. Tilak, G. G. Agarkar and G. H. Deshmukh
    4. Dadabhai Naoroji, K. T. Telang and R. G. Bhandarkar
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  15. Question 15

    A muslim organization, which proposed during the Frist World war that Muslim should participate and try to reach an accord with the congress, was
    1. Muslim League
    2. Ahmadiya Movement
    3. Ehrar League
    4. Deoband Movement
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  16. Question 16

    Madan Lal Dhingra murdered Curzon Wyllie in London in1909 as a protest:
    1. the indiscriminate arrest of the Ghadarites
    2. the inhuman transportation and hanging of Indian youth.
    3. the imprisonment of Lal, Bal and Pal.
    4. the Partition of Bengal.
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  17. Question 17

    Who started Faraizi movement in Bengal?
    1. Titumir
    2. Kunwar singh
    3. Digambar Biswas
    4. Haji Shariyatullah
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  18. Question 18

    Dadabhai Naoroji was elected to the British House of Commons as a member of the _____ party.
    1. Conservative
    2. Liberal
    3. Labour
    4. Labour-Liberal combine
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  19. Question 19

    The brain behind the bomb attack on Viceroy Lord Hardinge at Chandni Chowk, Delhi in December 1912, was
    1. Rasbehari Bose
    2. Bhai Parmanand
    3. Sachindranath Sanyal
    4. Shohan Lal Pathak
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  20. Question 20

    Who founded the Aligarh Anglo-oriental collage?
    1. Nawab Salimullah
    2. Liaqat Ali
    3. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
    4. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
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  21. Question 21

    Which of the following factors caused the greatest racial cleavage in India before the foundation of the Indian National Congress?
    1. The Ilbert Bill Controversy
    2. The reduction of age for entry to the Civil Services
    3. The Arms Act of 1878
    4. The Vernacular Press Act
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  22. Question 22

    Bal Gangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of ‘Lokmanya’ (Universally Respected) during:
    1. Swadeshi movement
    2. Revolutionary movement
    3. Home Rule movement
    4. His imprisonment in 1908
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  23. Question 23

    The Nehru Committee Report got a decent burial at the hands of the Congress at the ______ session of the INC.
    1. Calcutta
    2. Madras
    3. Lahore
    4. Bombay
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  24. Question 24

    The word Congress was borrowed from:
    1. The Congress (Parliament) of the USA.
    2. North American History, to cannote an assembly of people.
    3. The Congress of Trade Unions.
    4. The Congress of World Religions at Chicago.
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  25. Question 25

    Who founded a National Society, a National Paper, a National School and National Gymnasium and made the word ‘National’ popular in the later half of 19th century?
    1. Jyotindra Nath Tagore
    2. Rajnarayan Bose
    3. Nabagopal Mitra
    4. Satyendra Nath Tagore
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  26. Question 26

    'Navjivan' was edited by:
    1. Rasbehari Basu
    2. Gandhiji
    3. Lala Hardayal
    4. Aurobindo Ghosh
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  27. Question 27

    Who founded 'Gadar Party' (1913) and where?
    1. Bhagat Singh, Great Britain
    2. Lala Lajpat Rai, France
    3. Lala Hardayal, America
    4. Captain Mohan Singh, Germany
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  28. Question 28

    The Poona Pact took place in the year
    1. 1857
    2. 1932
    3. 1935
    4. 1942
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  29. Question 29

    Who was felicitated by Aurobindo Ghosh the as Prophet of Great Political Creed'?
    1. Brahmabandhab Upadhyay
    2. Ashwini Kumar Dutta
    3. Rashbehari Bose
    4. Bipin Chandra Pal
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  30. Question 30

    When Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed?
    1. 1931
    2. 1930
    3. 1932
    4. 1929
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  31. Question 31

    Who founded Servants of India Society?
    1. Annie Besant
    2. Mahadev Govind Ranade
    3. Gokhale
    4. B. G. Tilak
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  32. Question 32

    The Act that gave enormous powers to the British Government to repress political activities was:
    1. Arms Act
    2. Vernacular Press Act
    3. Rowlatt Act
    4. Act III of 1882
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  33. Question 33

    Who was the founder of ‘Anushilan Samity’?
    1. Ashwini Kumar Dutta
    2. Bipin Chandra Pal
    3. Aurobindo Ghosh
    4. Pramathanath Mitra
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  34. Question 34

    The Non-Cooperation programme was adopted in the
    1. Lahore session
    2. Congress session at Nagpur
    3. Gujarat Congress
    4. Second Round Table Conference
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  35. Question 35

    Who enunciated his famous formula that 'Swaraj must be for the masses and not for the classes alone'?
    1. Motilal Nehru
    2. Gandhiji
    3. Subhas Chandra Bose
    4. C. R. Das
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  36. Question 36

    Ram Prasad Bismil's name is associated with
    1. Kakori Conspiracy Case
    2. Lahore Conspiracy Case
    3. Alipur Bomb Case
    4. Meerat Conspiracy Case
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  37. Question 37

    The Self-respect Movement was founded by:
    1. Ambedkar
    2. Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Naicker
    3. Dinkarrao Javalkar
    4. Keshavrao Jedhe
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  38. Question 38

    Who pioneered 'Rakhi Bandhan' festival during partition of Bengal?
    1. Chittaranjan Das
    2. Rabindranath Tagore
    3. Pramathanath Mitra
    4. Pulin Behari Das
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  39. Question 39

    Who was known as the Grand Old Man of India'?
    1. Badruddin Tyabji
    2. Surendranath Banerjea
    3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    4. Dadabhai Naoroji
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  40. Question 40

    When was the Carlyle Circular' issued?
    1. 1905
    2. 1901
    3. 1902
    4. 1906
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  41. Question 41

    Who was the author of 'The Philosophy of the Bomb'?
    1. Bhagwati Charan Vohra
    2. Bipin Chandra Pal
    3. Yashpal
    4. Aurobindo Ghosh
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  42. Question 42

    Who was the first president of the All-India Kisan Sabha?
    1. Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
    2. N. G. Ranga
    3. Jawaharlal Nehru
    4. Jaya Prakash Narayan
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  43. Question 43

    Who among the following put forward the famous Drain Theory?
    1. Dadabhai Naoroji
    2. Surendranath Banerjea
    3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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  44. Question 44

    Who painted the image of Bharat Mata?
    1. Rabindranath Tagore
    2. Abanindranath Tagore
    3. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
    4. Mahatma Gandhi
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  45. Question 45

    Who ridiculed Gandhi as 'seditious fakir'?
    1. Winston Churchill
    2. Ramsay MacDonald
    3. Lord Irwin
    4. Cripps
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  46. Question 46

    Who wrote the book 'Hind Swaraj'?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Lal Bahadur Shastri
    3. Mahatma Gandhi
    4. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
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  47. Question 47

    Who was the founder of Tattwabodhini Sabha in Bengal?
    1. Dadoba Pandurang
    2. Debendranath Tagore
    3. Radha Kanta Deb
    4. Keshab Chandra Sen
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  48. Question 48

    The Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms were announced in the year
    1. 1919
    2. 1918
    3. 1920
    4. 1921
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  49. Question 49

    Who among the following was associated with the Bardoli Satyagraha (1928)?
    1. Rajendra Prasad
    2. Vallabhbhai Patel
    3. Motilal Nehru
    4. Jawaharlal Nehru
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  50. Question 50

    Who was the first Indian Governor General of free India?
    1. Rajendra Prasad
    2. Chakraborty Rajagopalachari
    3. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
    4. None of them Answer
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  51. Question 51

    Who founded the socio-religious reform organization 'Prarthana Samaj' in Bombay in 1867?
    1. Jyotirao Phule
    2. Mahadev Govind Ranade
    3. Atmaram Pandurang
    4. R.G. Bhandarkar
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  52. Question 52

    Which nationalist newspaper, originally started as a Bengali weekly, transformed overnight into an English daily in 1878 to escape the Vernacular Press Act?
    1. The Hindu
    2. Som Prakash
    3. Voice of India
    4. Amrita Bazar Patrika
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  53. Question 53

    Who was the Viceroy of India when the controversial Vernacular Press Act was passed in 1878?
    1. Lord Lytton
    2. Lord Ripon
    3. Lord Dufferin
    4. Lord Curzon
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  54. Question 54

    Who systematically highlighted the economic exploitation of India by authoring the famous book 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India'?
    1. R.C. Dutt
    2. Surendranath Banerjee
    3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    4. Dadabhai Naoroji
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  55. Question 55

    Who was the President of the Indian National Congress during the historic Surat Split in 1907?
    1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    2. Aurobindo Ghosh
    3. Rash Behari Ghosh
    4. Dadabhai Naoroji
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  56. Question 56

    Which movement marked Mahatma Gandhi's very first use of a 'hunger strike' as a political weapon in India?
    1. Champaran Satyagraha
    2. Rowlatt Satyagraha
    3. Ahmedabad Mill Strike
    4. Kheda Satyagraha
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  57. Question 57

    Who among the following was a key founder of the 'Anushilan Samiti' in Calcutta in 1902?
    1. Pramathanath Mitra
    2. Surya Sen
    3. Barindra Kumar Ghosh
    4. Pulin Behari Das
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  58. Question 58

    Who defended Aurobindo Ghosh in the famous Alipore Bomb Conspiracy Case of 1908?
    1. Motilal Nehru
    2. Chittaranjan Das
    3. Tej Bahadur Sapru
    4. W.C. Bonnerjee
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  59. Question 59

    The tragic 'Komagata Maru' incident of 1914 was related to a Japanese steamship carrying Indian immigrants primarily to which country?
    1. South Africa
    2. United States of America
    3. Australia
    4. Canada
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  60. Question 60

    Which revolutionary organization masterminded and executed the daring Kakori Train Robbery in 1925?
    1. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA)
    2. Hindustan Republican Association (HRA)
    3. Jugantar Dal
    4. Ghadar Party
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  61. Question 61

    The historic Chittagong Armoury Raid of 1930 was meticulously planned and led by whom?
    1. Surya Sen
    2. Jatindranath Mukherjee
    3. Sachindra Nath Sanyal
    4. Bhagat Singh
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  62. Question 62

    The famous revolutionary Jatin Das tragically died after a 63-day hunger strike inside which jail?
    1. Alipore Jail
    2. Cellular Jail
    3. Yerawada Jail
    4. Lahore Jail
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  63. Question 63

    Who assassinated Sir Michael O'Dwyer in London in 1940 to avenge the brutal Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
    1. Bhagat Singh
    2. Madan Lal Dhingra
    3. Chandrashekhar Azad
    4. Udham Singh
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  64. Question 64

    The famous Meerut Conspiracy Case (1929) was primarily a massive British crackdown directed against the leaders of which movement?
    1. Communist and trade union movement
    2. Peasant rebellion movement
    3. Khilafat movement
    4. Revolutionary terrorist movement
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  65. Question 65

    Pritilata Waddedar, a fearless woman revolutionary, died while successfully leading an armed attack on which of the following?
    1. Writers' Building
    2. Chittagong Armoury
    3. Pahartali European Club
    4. Alipore Mint
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  66. Question 66

    The revolutionaries Binoy, Badal, and Dinesh famously assassinated Inspector General of Prisons N.S. Simpson in 1930 at which location?
    1. Victoria Memorial
    2. Decca Police Lines
    3. Chittagong Club
    4. Writers' Building in Calcutta
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  67. Question 67

    Where was the primary headquarters of the revolutionary 'Ghadar Party', famously known as the 'Yugantar Ashram', located?
    1. London
    2. Tokyo
    3. San Francisco
    4. Berlin
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  68. Question 68

    Who bravely accompanied Bhagat Singh to throw non-lethal bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly in 1929?
    1. Batukeshwar Dutt
    2. Sukhdev Thapar
    3. Rajguru
    4. Chandrashekhar Azad
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  69. Question 69

    Which extremist nationalist leader powerfully propagated his views by starting the English weekly 'New India' and the daily 'Bande Mataram'?
    1. Bipin Chandra Pal
    2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    3. Lala Lajpat Rai
    4. Aurobindo Ghosh
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  70. Question 70

    Who along with Prafulla Chaki threw a bomb at a carriage in Muzaffarpur in 1908, mistakenly killing two European women instead of Magistrate Kingsford?
    1. Barindra Kumar Ghosh
    2. Rash Behari Bose
    3. Sachindra Nath Sanyal
    4. Khudiram Bose
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  71. Question 71

    Who earned the popular title of "Lokahitawadi" for his progressive social reform writings in Maharashtra?
    1. Mahadev Govind Ranade
    2. Jyotirao Phule
    3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    4. Gopal Hari Deshmukh
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  72. Question 72

    The sensational Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy Case of 1912 involved a daring bomb assassination attempt on which British Viceroy?
    1. Lord Curzon
    2. Lord Minto
    3. Lord Hardinge
    4. Lord Chelmsford
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  73. Question 73

    Jatindranath Mukherjee, universally known as 'Bagha Jatin', died fighting British armed forces in 1915 on the banks of which river?
    1. Hooghly
    2. Teesta
    3. Rupnarayan
    4. Buribalam
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  74. Question 74

    Who was the very first European to be elected as the President of the Indian National Congress?
    1. A.O. Hume
    2. George Yule
    3. William Wedderburn
    4. Henry Cotton
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  75. Question 75

    Who among the following was the principal founder of the Communist Party of India (CPI) in Tashkent in 1920?
    1. M.N. Roy
    2. S.A. Dange
    3. Muzaffar Ahmad
    4. P.C. Joshi
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  76. Question 76

    Who announced the Partition of Bengal in 1905?
    1. Lord Dalhousie
    2. Lord Curzon
    3. Lord Mountbatten
    4. Lord Minto
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  77. Question 77

    Who founded the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897?
    1. Raja Rammohan Roy
    2. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
    3. Swami Vivekananda
    4. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
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  78. Question 78

    Where was the very first session of the Indian National Congress held in 1885?
    1. Bombay
    2. Calcutta
    3. Madras
    4. Delhi
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  79. Question 79

    Who is the author of the famous book 'The Discovery of India'?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Mahatma Gandhi
    3. Rabindranath Tagore
    4. Subhas Chandra Bose
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  80. Question 80

    Which movement was called off by Mahatma Gandhi due to the violent Chauri Chaura incident?
    1. Civil Disobedience Movement
    2. Quit India Movement
    3. Non-Cooperation Movement
    4. Swadeshi Movement
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  81. Question 81

    Who gave the highly inspiring national slogan "Jai Hind"?
    1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    2. Subhas Chandra Bose
    3. Bhagat Singh
    4. Chandrashekhar Azad
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  82. Question 82

    The tragic Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919 took place in which city?
    1. Amritsar
    2. Lahore
    3. Delhi
    4. Chandigarh
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  83. Question 83

    Who was widely known as the 'Nightingale of India' for her beautiful poetry and leadership?
    1. Annie Besant
    2. Aruna Asaf Ali
    3. Madam Bhikaji Cama
    4. Sarojini Naidu
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  84. Question 84

    Mahatma Gandhi participated in which of the Round Table Conferences held in London?
    1. First Round Table Conference
    2. Second Round Table Conference
    3. Third Round Table Conference
    4. He did not attend any conference
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  85. Question 85

    Who was the last British Viceroy of India who oversaw the partition and independence in 1947?
    1. Lord Wavell
    2. Lord Mountbatten
    3. Lord Linlithgow
    4. Lord Irwin
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  86. Question 86

    The famous Kakori Train Robbery of 1925 was organized by which revolutionary group?
    1. Hindustan Republican Association (HRA)
    2. Ghadar Party
    3. Anushilan Samiti
    4. Indian National Army (INA)
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  87. Question 87

    Who along with Motilal Nehru founded the Swaraj Party in 1923?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
    3. Chittaranjan Das
    4. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
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  88. Question 88

    Mahatma Gandhi started the historic Dandi March in 1930 to break which oppressive British law?
    1. Rowlatt Act
    2. Salt Law
    3. Vernacular Press Act
    4. Arms Act
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  89. Question 89

    Who brilliantly led the famous Chittagong Armoury Raid in 1930?
    1. Bhagat Singh
    2. Jatindranath Mukherjee (Bagha Jatin)
    3. Surya Sen
    4. Rash Behari Bose
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  90. Question 90

    Which extremist leader was popularly known as the 'Punjab Kesari' or 'Lion of Punjab'?
    1. Bhagat Singh
    2. Lala Lajpat Rai
    3. Bipin Chandra Pal
    4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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  91. Question 91

    The 'Quit India Movement' was officially launched by the Indian National Congress in which year?
    1. 1939
    2. 1940
    3. 1942
    4. 1946
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  92. Question 92

    Who bravely threw bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly along with Bhagat Singh?
    1. Sukhdev Thapar
    2. Rajguru
    3. Chandrashekhar Azad
    4. Batukeshwar Dutt
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  93. Question 93

    Who founded the socio-religious reform organization called the 'Arya Samaj' in 1875?
    1. Swami Vivekananda
    2. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
    3. Raja Rammohan Roy
    4. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
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  94. Question 94

    Which popular revolutionary leader died after a 63-day hunger strike in Lahore Jail?
    1. Surya Sen
    2. Khudiram Bose
    3. Jatindra Nath Das
    4. Ram Prasad Bismil
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  95. Question 95

    The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed in which year?
    1. 1929
    2. 1930
    3. 1931
    4. 1932
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  96. Question 96

    Who was the founder of the 'Home Rule League' in Madras in 1916?
    1. Annie Besant
    2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    3. Sarojini Naidu
    4. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
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  97. Question 97

    Which woman made history by becoming the very first woman President of the Indian National Congress?
    1. Sister Nivedita
    2. Madam Bhikaji Cama
    3. Annie Besant
    4. Margaret Noble
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  98. Question 98

    Who started the publication of the famous newspaper 'Harijan' to campaign against untouchability?
    1. B.R. Ambedkar
    2. Jyotirao Phule
    3. Mahatma Gandhi
    4. Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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  99. Question 99

    Which historic plan officially proposed the partition of India into two independent dominions?
    1. Mountbatten Plan
    2. Wavell Plan
    3. Cabinet Mission Plan
    4. Cripps Mission
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  100. Question 100

    Who established the 'Provisional Government of Free India' (Azad Hind) in Singapore in 1943?
    1. Rash Behari Bose
    2. Subhas Chandra Bose
    3. Captain Mohan Singh
    4. Vallabhbhai Patel
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  101. Question 101

    The Asiatic Society of Bengal was founded by whom?
    1. James Prinsep
    2. William Jones
    3. William Marshal
    4. Raja Rammohan Roy
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  102. Question 102

    Who authored the famous book 'The Spirit of Islam'?
    1. Muhammad Iqbal
    2. Syed Ahmad Khan
    3. Sayyid Amir Ali
    4. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
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  103. Question 103

    In which of the following provinces was a Congress ministry NOT formed under the Act of 1935?
    1. Madras
    2. United Provinces
    3. Punjab
    4. Bombay
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  104. Question 104

    Who was the first prominent leader arrested in the Non-Cooperation movement?
    1. C.R. Das
    2. Mahatma Gandhi
    3. Motilal Nehru
    4. Lala Lajpat Rai
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  105. Question 105

    The Indian National Congress represented the views of a "microscopic minority" in India. This contention was maintained by whom?
    1. Lord Curzon
    2. Lord Minto
    3. Lord Lytton
    4. Lord Dufferin
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  106. Question 106

    At which session of the INC was 'Vande Mataram' sung for the first time?
    1. 1885 session
    2. 1905 session
    3. 1911 session
    4. 1896 session
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  107. Question 107

    Who was the first propounder of the doctrine of 'Passive Resistance'?
    1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    2. Aurobindo Ghosh
    3. Mahatma Gandhi
    4. Bipin Chandra Pal
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  108. Question 108

    Who translated the Swadeshi into a massive mass movement in Barishal?
    1. Pulin Behari Das
    2. Surendranath Banerjee
    3. Aswini Kumar Dutta
    4. Barindra Kumar Ghosh
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  109. Question 109

    Who is historically considered the first Indian martyr outside India?
    1. Udham Singh
    2. Madan Lal Dhingra
    3. Netaji Subash Ch Bose
    4. Shyamji Krishna Varma
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  110. Question 110

    The historic Naval Revolt of 1946 officially started in which city?
    1. Madras
    2. Calcutta
    3. Karachi
    4. Bombay
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  111. Question 111

    "At the stroke of midnight, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom," was said by whom?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Subhas Chandra Bose
    3. Mahatma Gandhi
    4. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
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  112. Question 112

    Ram Prasad Bismil's name is most prominently associated with which revolutionary event?
    1. Lahore Conspiracy Case
    2. Alipore Bomb Case
    3. Kakori Conspiracy Case
    4. Meerut Conspiracy Case
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  113. Question 113

    Who commented that the Cripps Mission was a "post-dated cheque on a crashing bank"?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
    3. Mahatma Gandhi
    4. Subhas Chandra Bose
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  114. Question 114

    Who was the President of the Indian National Congress at the time of India's independence in 1947?
    1. J.B. Kripalani
    2. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
    3. Jawaharlal Nehru
    4. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
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  115. Question 115

    The Whitley Commission, established in 1929, was primarily concerned with which subject?
    1. Famine relief policies
    2. Educational reforms
    3. Police administration
    4. Labour conditions
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  116. Question 116

    Which newspaper was started by Krishna Kumar Mitra to explicitly suggest the total boycott of British goods?
    1. Hitabadi
    2. Sanjibani
    3. Som Prakash
    4. Bengalee
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  117. Question 117

    Who formed the political organization known as the 'Independent Labour Party' in 1936?
    1. Lala Lajpat Rai
    2. B.R. Ambedkar
    3. N.M. Joshi
    4. M.N. Roy
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  118. Question 118

    The 'Indian Independence League' in Tokyo was originally founded by whom?
    1. Captain Mohan Singh
    2. Subhas Chandra Bose
    3. Sachindra Nath Sanyal
    4. Rash Behari Bose
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  119. Question 119

    Who was the author of the highly influential Bengali play 'Neel Darpan'?
    1. Dinabandhu Mitra
    2. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
    3. Rabindranath Tagore
    4. Michael Madhusudan Dutt
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  120. Question 120

    The controversial Ilbert Bill was introduced during the tenure of which British Viceroy?
    1. Lord Dufferin
    2. Lord Lytton
    3. Lord Curzon
    4. Lord Ripon
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  121. Question 121

    Who founded the prominent social reform organization 'Seva Sadan' in 1885?
    1. Pandita Ramabai
    2. Behramji Malabari
    3. Jyotirao Phule
    4. D.K. Karve
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  122. Question 122

    The reformist newspaper 'Rast Goftar' was started by which nationalist leader?
    1. Badruddin Tyabji
    2. Dinshaw Wacha
    3. Dadabhai Naoroji
    4. Pherozeshah Mehta
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  123. Question 123

    In 1939, Subhas Chandra Bose defeated whom to become the President of the INC at the Tripuri session?
    1. Pattabhi Sitaramayya
    2. J.B. Kripalani
    3. Jawaharlal Nehru
    4. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
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  124. Question 124

    The 'Strachey Commission' of 1880 was established by the British to formulate policies regarding what?
    1. Famine relief
    2. Military expenditure
    3. Civil Services
    4. Educational reforms
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  125. Question 125

    Who founded the 'Bhil Seva Mandal' in 1922 to uplift the tribal communities?
    1. Mahatma Gandhi
    2. B.R. Ambedkar
    3. Jyotirao Phule
    4. Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar
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  126. Question 126

    In which year was the Hindu College founded?
    1. 1835 A.D.
    2. 1817 A.D.
    3. 1857 A.D.
    4. 1875 A.D.
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  127. Question 127

    The Hindu Widow Remarriage Act was passed in which year?
    1. 1829
    2. 1885
    3. 1891
    4. 1856
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  128. Question 128

    When did the Akali Movement officially start?
    1. 1919
    2. 1925
    3. 1921
    4. 1930
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  129. Question 129

    The Indigo Revolt was regularly highlighted in which newspaper?
    1. Som Prakash
    2. Hindu Patriot
    3. Amrita Bazar Patrika
    4. The Maratha
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  130. Question 130

    The Moplah Rebellion of 1921 broke out in which place?
    1. Bengal
    2. Punjab
    3. Kerala
    4. Maharashtra
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  131. Question 131

    Who first introduced the portfolio system in India?
    1. Lord Canning
    2. Lord Dalhousie
    3. Lord Ripon
    4. Lord Curzon
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  132. Question 132

    Who was the last Governor-General of India?
    1. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
    2. Lord Mountbatten
    3. Jawaharlal Nehru
    4. C. Rajagopalachari
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  133. Question 133

    The newspaper 'Voice of India' was published from which city?
    1. Bombay
    2. Calcutta
    3. Madras
    4. London
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  134. Question 134

    Who is the author of the book 'Geography of the Puranas'?
    1. Romila Thapar
    2. S. Muzzafar Ali
    3. D.D. Kosambi
    4. R.C. Majumdar
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  135. Question 135

    The Bengal Tenancy Act was passed in which year?
    1. 1878
    2. 1928
    3. 1885
    4. 1968
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  136. Question 136

    Who founded the Arya Samaj in 1875?
    1. Swami Vivekananda
    2. Raja Rammohan Roy
    3. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
    4. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
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  137. Question 137

    Who was the political guru of Mahatma Gandhi?
    1. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    2. Dadabhai Naoroji
    3. Bipin Chandra Pal
    4. Mahadev Govind Ranade
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  138. Question 138

    In which year was the Indian National Congress founded?
    1. 1857
    2. 1885
    3. 1905
    4. 1919
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  139. Question 139

    Who gave the slogan "Swaraj is my birthright"?
    1. Subhas Chandra Bose
    2. Bhagat Singh
    3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    4. Lala Lajpat Rai
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  140. Question 140

    The Partition of Bengal was officially annulled in which year?
    1. 1909
    2. 1914
    3. 1919
    4. 1911
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  141. Question 141

    Who founded the political party 'Forward Bloc' in 1939?
    1. Subhas Chandra Bose
    2. C.R. Das
    3. Jawaharlal Nehru
    4. Vallabhbhai Patel
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  142. Question 142

    The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place in which city?
    1. Delhi
    2. Lahore
    3. Chandigarh
    4. Amritsar
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  143. Question 143

    Who was the first woman President of the Indian National Congress?
    1. Sarojini Naidu
    2. Madam Bhikaji Cama
    3. Annie Besant
    4. Aruna Asaf Ali
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  144. Question 144

    The Dandi March was started to break which oppressive law?
    1. Salt Law
    2. Rowlatt Act
    3. Vernacular Press Act
    4. Arms Act
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  145. Question 145

    Who authored the book 'The Discovery of India'?
    1. Mahatma Gandhi
    2. Rabindranath Tagore
    3. Jawaharlal Nehru
    4. Subhas Chandra Bose
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  146. Question 146

    Who founded the Ramakrishna Mission?
    1. Swami Vivekananda
    2. Raja Rammohan Roy
    3. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
    4. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
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  147. Question 147

    The Poona Pact of 1932 was signed between Mahatma Gandhi and whom?
    1. Jyotirao Phule
    2. B.R. Ambedkar
    3. E.V. Ramasamy
    4. Jagjivan Ram
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  148. Question 148

    Who was popularly known as the 'Frontier Gandhi'?
    1. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
    2. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
    3. Syed Ahmad Khan
    4. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
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  149. Question 149

    In which session did the Congress adopt the 'Purna Swaraj' resolution?
    1. Lucknow Session (1916)
    2. Surat Session (1907)
    3. Karachi Session (1931)
    4. Lahore Session (1929)
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  150. Question 150

    Who planned and led the Chittagong Armoury Raid?
    1. Bhagat Singh
    2. Surya Sen
    3. Jatindranath Mukherjee
    4. Rash Behari Bose
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  151. Question 151

    Who founded the 'Swadesh Bandhab Samiti' during the Swadeshi Movement?
    1. Bipin Chandra Pal
    2. Ashwini Kumar Dutta
    3. Aurobindo Ghosh
    4. Surendranath Banerjee
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  152. Question 152

    Which session of the Indian National Congress endorsed the Gandhi-Irwin Pact?
    1. Karachi Session
    2. Lucknow Session
    3. Lahore Session
    4. Faizpur Session
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  153. Question 153

    Who was the first Indian to be elected to the British Parliament?
    1. W.C. Bannerjee
    2. Pherozeshah Mehta
    3. Dadabhai Naoroji
    4. Dinshaw Wacha
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  154. Question 154

    The historic 'Tebhaga Movement' of 1946 took place in which province?
    1. Punjab
    2. Bengal
    3. Madras
    4. Bihar
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  155. Question 155

    Who was the first President of the All India Kisan Sabha?
    1. Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
    2. N.G. Ranga
    3. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
    4. P.C. Joshi
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  156. Question 156

    Which British official was assassinated by the Chapekar brothers in 1897?
    1. Charles Tegart
    2. Douglas Kingsford
    3. General Dyer
    4. W.C. Rand
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  157. Question 157

    Who founded the 'Servants of India Society'?
    1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    2. Madan Mohan Malaviya
    3. Lala Lajpat Rai
    4. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
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  158. Question 158

    The newspaper 'Al-Hilal' was started by which nationalist leader?
    1. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
    2. Syed Ahmad Khan
    3. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
    4. Hakim Ajmal Khan
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  159. Question 159

    Who was the chief defense counsel for the INA prisoners during the Red Fort trials?
    1. Asaf Ali
    2. Tej Bahadur Sapru
    3. Bhulabhai Desai
    4. Jawaharlal Nehru
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  160. Question 160

    The series of articles titled 'New Lamps for Old' was written by whom?
    1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    2. Aurobindo Ghosh
    3. Bipin Chandra Pal
    4. Rabindranath Tagore
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  161. Question 161

    The 'Cunningham Circular' of 1930 was issued in which British Indian province?
    1. Assam
    2. Bengal
    3. Bombay
    4. United Provinces
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  162. Question 162

    Who founded the 'Depressed Classes Mission Society of India'?
    1. B.R. Ambedkar
    2. E.V. Ramasamy
    3. V.R. Shinde
    4. Jyotirao Phule
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  163. Question 163

    Which commission was appointed by the British to inquire into the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
    1. Simon Commission
    2. Sadler Commission
    3. Hunter Commission
    4. Raleigh Commission
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  164. Question 164

    Who authored the famous socio-reform book 'Gulamgiri'?
    1. B.R. Ambedkar
    2. Jyotirao Phule
    3. Gopal Hari Deshmukh
    4. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
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  165. Question 165

    The 'Eka Movement' of 1921 was a peasant uprising in which region?
    1. Malabar
    2. Awadh
    3. Kheda
    4. Champaran
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  166. Question 166

    Who was the founder of the 'Dawn Society' in Calcutta in 1902?
    1. Satish Chandra Mukherjee
    2. Pramathanath Mitra
    3. Barindra Kumar Ghosh
    4. Sister Nivedita
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  167. Question 167

    Who established the 'Indian Sociologist' journal and India House in London?
    1. V.D. Savarkar
    2. Shyamji Krishna Varma
    3. Lala Hardayal
    4. Madam Bhikaji Cama
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  168. Question 168

    The 'Vaikom Satyagraha' of 1924 was launched in Kerala to achieve what objective?
    1. Abolition of the Zamindari system
    2. Reduction of land revenue
    3. Rights for plantation workers
    4. Temple entry for lower castes
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  169. Question 169

    Who among the following was a prominent leader of the Santhal Rebellion?
    1. Birsa Munda
    2. Sidhu and Kanhu
    3. Alluri Sitarama Raju
    4. Titu Mir
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  170. Question 170

    Which Viceroy passed the Indian Universities Act of 1904?
    1. Lord Minto
    2. Lord Chelmsford
    3. Lord Hardinge
    4. Lord Curzon
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  171. Question 171

    Who unfurled the first version of the Indian national flag in Stuttgart, Germany in 1907?
    1. Shyamji Krishna Varma
    2. Sarojini Naidu
    3. Madam Bhikaji Cama
    4. Annie Besant
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  172. Question 172

    Who was the founder of the secret revolutionary society 'Abhinav Bharat'?
    1. V.D. Savarkar
    2. Surya Sen
    3. Pulin Behari Das
    4. Sachindra Nath Sanyal
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  173. Question 173

    Who authored the famous historical book 'The Indian Struggle, 1920–1942'?
    1. Subhas Chandra Bose
    2. Jawaharlal Nehru
    3. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
    4. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
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  174. Question 174

    The famous 'Zimmerman Plan' was associated with which revolutionary group during World War I?
    1. Ghadar Party
    2. Hindustan Republican Association
    3. Jugantar Party
    4. Anushilan Samiti
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  175. Question 175

    In which year was the Communist Party of India (CPI) formally founded in Kanpur?
    1. 1920
    2. 1925
    3. 1928
    4. 1934
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  176. Question 176

    WBCS Preliminary (INM) Sectional Test - 08
    1. Calcutta
    2. Bombay
    3. Madras
    4. Allahabad
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  177. Question 177

    Who was the Viceroy of India during the Partition of Bengal in 1905?
    1. Lord Elgin
    2. Lord Hardinge
    3. Lord Minto
    4. Lord Curzon
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  178. Question 178

    Which leader is famously known as the "Grand Old Man of India"?
    1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    2. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    3. Dadabhai Naoroji
    4. Surendranath Banerjee
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  179. Question 179

    In which year did the historic Lucknow Pact take place between the Congress and the Muslim League?
    1. 1906
    2. 1911
    3. 1916
    4. 1919
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  180. Question 180

    What was the primary reason for the withdrawal of the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1922?
    1. Passing of the Rowlatt Act
    2. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
    3. Chauri Chaura Incident
    4. Arrest of Mahatma Gandhi
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  181. Question 181

    Who founded the "All India Home Rule League" along with Annie Besant in 1916?
    1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    2. Lala Lajpat Rai
    3. Chittaranjan Das
    4. Motilal Nehru
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  182. Question 182

    The "Hindustan Socialist Republican Association" (HSRA) was founded by ___________.
    1. Bhagat Singh
    2. Chandrashekhar Azad
    3. Surya Sen
    4. Ram Prasad Bismil
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  183. Question 183

    Which commission was boycotted by Indians because it had no Indian members?
    1. Hunter Commission
    2. Cabinet Mission
    3. Cripps Mission
    4. Simon Commission
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  184. Question 184

    In which session did the Indian National Congress pass the "Purna Swaraj" (Complete Independence) resolution?
    1. Calcutta Session 1928
    2. Lahore Session 1929
    3. Karachi Session 1931
    4. Faizpur Session 1937
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  185. Question 185

    Mahatma Gandhi started the Dandi March on March 12, 1930, to protest against which British law?
    1. Salt Tax
    2. Press Act
    3. Forest Act
    4. Rowlatt Act
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  186. Question 186

    The "Poona Pact" of 1932 was signed between Mahatma Gandhi and which other leader?
    1. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
    2. Lord Willingdon
    3. Subhash Chandra Bose
    4. B.R. Ambedkar
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  187. Question 187

    Which mission visited India in 1942 with the proposal of "Dominion Status" after World War II?
    1. Wavell Plan
    2. Mountbatten Plan
    3. Cripps Mission
    4. Cabinet Mission
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  188. Question 188

    Who gave the famous slogan "Do or Die"?
    1. Subhash Chandra Bose
    2. Jawaharlal Nehru
    3. Mahatma Gandhi
    4. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
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  189. Question 189

    Subhash Chandra Bose founded which political party after resigning from the Congress in 1939?
    1. Azad Hind Fauj
    2. Independence League
    3. Swaraj Party
    4. Forward Bloc
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  190. Question 190

    Who was the first woman President of the Indian National Congress?
    1. Annie Besant
    2. Sarojini Naidu
    3. Aruna Asaf Ali
    4. Nellie Sengupta
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  191. Question 191

    The "Gadar Party" was founded in 1913 in San Francisco by which revolutionary?
    1. V.D. Savarkar
    2. Lala Hardayal
    3. Bhagat Singh
    4. Rash Behari Bose
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  192. Question 192

    Which British Act introduced "Dyarchy" at the provincial level for the first time?
    1. Morley-Minto Reforms 1909
    2. Government of India Act 1935
    3. Indian Independence Act 1947
    4. Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms 1919
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  193. Question 193

    Who founded the "Servants of India Society" in 1905?
    1. Jyotiba Phule
    2. M.G. Ranade
    3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    4. B.R. Ambedkar
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  194. Question 194

    Which incident is often described as the "First War of Independence" of the 20th century?
    1. Santhal Rebellion
    2. Alipore Conspiracy
    3. Chittagong Armoury Raid
    4. Swadeshi Movement
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  195. Question 195

    Who was the commander of the Indian National Army (INA) when it was reorganized in Singapore in 1943?
    1. Mohan Singh
    2. Rash Behari Bose
    3. Subhash Chandra Bose
    4. Shah Nawaz Khan
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  196. Question 196

    The "August Offer" of 1940 was proposed by which Viceroy?
    1. Lord Linlithgow
    2. Lord Wavell
    3. Lord Reading
    4. Lord Irwin
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  197. Question 197

    Who was the first Satyagrahi chosen by Gandhi for the Individual Satyagraha in 1940?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Vinoba Bhave
    3. Sardar Patel
    4. Maulana Azad
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  198. Question 198

    The "Cabinet Mission" arrived in India in 1946 to discuss which major issue?
    1. Partition of India
    2. Transfer of Power
    3. Suppression of the RIN Mutiny
    4. Formation of the Simon Commission
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  199. Question 199

    Who was the Prime Minister of Britain when India gained independence in 1947?
    1. Clement Attlee
    2. Winston Churchill
    3. Ramsay MacDonald
    4. Neville Chamberlain
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  200. Question 200

    What was the primary objective of the "Direct Action Day" called by the Muslim League on August 16, 1946?
    1. Withdrawal of the British
    2. Celebration of Victory Day
    3. Demand for Pakistan
    4. Protest against the Cabinet Mission
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  201. Question 201

    Who founded the Indian Association in Calcutta in 1876?
    1. Dadabhai Naoroji
    2. Surendranath Banerjee
    3. W.C. Bonnerjee
    4. Sisir Kumar Ghosh
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  202. Question 202

    Who presided over the Surat Session of the Indian National Congress in 1907, where the party split?
    1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    2. Dadabhai Naoroji
    3. Rash Behari Ghosh
    4. Pherozeshah Mehta
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  203. Question 203

    Which nationalist leader was popularly known by the title "Deshbandhu"?
    1. Chittaranjan Das
    2. C. Rajagopalachari
    3. Lala Lajpat Rai
    4. Madan Mohan Malaviya
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  204. Question 204

    Where did Mahatma Gandhi successfully lead his first Satyagraha movement in India?
    1. Kheda
    2. Bardoli
    3. Ahmedabad
    4. Champaran
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  205. Question 205

    Who founded the secret revolutionary organization "Abhinav Bharat Society" in 1904?
    1. Khudiram Bose
    2. V.D. Savarkar
    3. Prafulla Chaki
    4. Bhagat Singh
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  206. Question 206

    Which was the only Indian National Congress session presided over by Mahatma Gandhi?
    1. Belgaum Session 1924
    2. Calcutta Session 1917
    3. Gaya Session 1922
    4. Haripura Session 1938
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  207. Question 207

    Which British Prime Minister officially announced the "Communal Award" in 1932?
    1. Winston Churchill
    2. Clement Attlee
    3. Ramsay MacDonald
    4. Neville Chamberlain
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  208. Question 208

    Who was the second person to offer "Individual Satyagraha" in 1940 after Vinoba Bhave?
    1. Sardar Patel
    2. Jawaharlal Nehru
    3. C. Rajagopalachari
    4. Sarojini Naidu
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  209. Question 209

    Who was the founder of the "Satyashodhak Samaj" (Truth Seekers' Society) in Maharashtra?
    1. Jyotiba Phule
    2. B.R. Ambedkar
    3. M.G. Ranade
    4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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  210. Question 210

    Which revolutionary founded the "Naujawan Bharat Sabha" in 1926?
    1. Bhagat Singh
    2. Chandrashekhar Azad
    3. Ram Prasad Bismil
    4. Batukeshwar Dutt
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  211. Question 211

    Who was the leader of the famous Chittagong Armoury Raid in 1930?
    1. Jatin Das
    2. Bhagat Singh
    3. Surya Sen
    4. Pritilata Waddedar
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  212. Question 212

    Who gave the title of "Mahatma" to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi?
    1. Rabindranath Tagore
    2. Subhash Chandra Bose
    3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    4. Jawaharlal Nehru
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  213. Question 213

    In which session did the Indian National Congress decide to boycott the Simon Commission?
    1. Madras Session 1927
    2. Calcutta Session 1928
    3. Lahore Session 1929
    4. Bombay Session 1925
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  214. Question 214

    Who was the founder of the "Khudai Khidmatgar" (Servants of God) movement?
    1. Maulana Azad
    2. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
    3. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
    4. Shaukat Ali
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  215. Question 215

    Which revolutionary authored the autobiographical work titled "An Indian Pilgrim"?
    1. Subhash Chandra Bose
    2. Bhagat Singh
    3. V.D. Savarkar
    4. Lala Lajpat Rai
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  216. Question 216

    Who was the head of the "Interim Government" formed in September 1946?
    1. Lord Wavell
    2. Jawaharlal Nehru
    3. C. Rajagopalachari
    4. Sardar Patel
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  217. Question 217

    The arrest of which two leaders led to the massive protest at Jallianwala Bagh in 1919?
    1. Gandhi and Nehru
    2. Tilak and Annie Besant
    3. Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal
    4. Lala Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh
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  218. Question 218

    Who was the first Muslim President of the Indian National Congress?
    1. Badruddin Tyabji
    2. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
    3. Rahimtulla M. Sayani
    4. Hakim Ajmal Khan
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  219. Question 219

    Which leader founded the "Self-Respect Movement" in South India?
    1. E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker
    2. C.N. Annadurai
    3. K. Kamaraj
    4. P. Tyagaraya Chetty
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  220. Question 220

    The slogan "Inquilab Zindabad" (Long Live the Revolution) was first popularized by which revolutionary?
    1. Hasrat Mohani
    2. Bhagat Singh
    3. Ashfaqullah Khan
    4. Subhash Chandra Bose
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  221. Question 221

    Who presided over the Haripura Session of the Congress in 1938?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Subhash Chandra Bose
    3. Rajendra Prasad
    4. J.B. Kripalani
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  222. Question 222

    Which British Viceroy is credited with the repeal of the controversial Vernacular Press Act in 1882?
    1. Lord Lytton
    2. Lord Ripon
    3. Lord Dufferin
    4. Lord Lansdowne
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  223. Question 223

    Who was the primary founder of the "Poona Sarvajanik Sabha" in 1870?
    1. M.G. Ranade
    2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    4. Jyotiba Phule
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  224. Question 224

    The "Deepavali Declaration" of 1929, which mentioned 'Dominion Status' for India, was made by?
    1. Lord Irwin
    2. Lord Reading
    3. Lord Birkenhead
    4. Ramsay MacDonald
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  225. Question 225

    Who founded the "All India Trade Union Congress" (AITUC) in 1920?
    1. N.M. Joshi
    2. Lala Lajpat Rai
    3. B.P. Wadia
    4. S.A. Dange
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  226. Question 226

    Who founded the East India Association in London in 1866?
    1. Pherozeshah Mehta
    2. Dadabhai Naoroji
    3. Ananda Mohan Bose
    4. Badruddin Tyabji
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  227. Question 227

    Which socio-religious reform movement started the 'Shuddhi' movement to reconvert people to Hinduism?
    1. Brahmo Samaj
    2. Theosophical Society
    3. Ramakrishna Mission
    4. Arya Samaj
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  228. Question 228

    Who was the editor of the influential Marathi newspaper 'Kesari' during the nationalist struggle?
    1. Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
    2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    3. Mahadev Govind Ranade
    4. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
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  229. Question 229

    In which year was the Partition of Bengal officially annulled by the British government?
    1. 1909
    2. 1910
    3. 1911
    4. 1912
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  230. Question 230

    Where was the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) founded in 1924?
    1. Kanpur
    2. Delhi
    3. Allahabad
    4. Lucknow
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  231. Question 231

    On which date was the historic Gandhi-Irwin Pact signed?
    1. March 5, 1931
    2. March 23, 1931
    3. April 6, 1930
    4. January 26, 1931
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  232. Question 232

    Who presided over the Karachi Session of the Indian National Congress in 1931?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
    3. Subhash Chandra Bose
    4. Mahatma Gandhi
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  233. Question 233

    The 'C.R. Formula' (1944) was proposed by Rajagopalachari to resolve the deadlock between?
    1. The Congress and the British
    2. The Congress and the Muslim League
    3. The Moderates and the Extremists
    4. The Princely States and the Union
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  234. Question 234

    Where were the famous trials of the officers of the Indian National Army (INA) held in 1945?
    1. Cellular Jail, Port Blair
    2. Red Fort, Delhi
    3. Yerwada Jail, Poona
    4. Alipore Jail, Calcutta
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  235. Question 235

    In which year did the Kakori Train Robbery (Conspiracy Case) take place?
    1. 1924
    2. 1925
    3. 1926
    4. 1927
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  236. Question 236

    Who was the key accused in the Alipore Bomb Case (1908) whose defense was led by Chittaranjan Das?
    1. Aurobindo Ghosh
    2. Barindra Kumar Ghosh
    3. Khudiram Bose
    4. Prafulla Chaki
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  237. Question 237

    The Sarda Act of 1929 was primarily concerned with which social reform?
    1. Abolition of Untouchability
    2. Remarriage of Widows
    3. Prohibition of Child Marriage
    4. Promotion of Women's Education
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  238. Question 238

    What was the primary purpose of the Butler Committee appointed in 1927?
    1. To suggest educational reforms
    2. To investigate the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
    3. To examine the relationship between the Paramount Power and Princely States
    4. To review the financial relations between Centre and Provinces
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  239. Question 239

    In which year was the 'Nehru Report', the first major attempt by Indians to draft a constitution, published?
    1. 1927
    2. 1928
    3. 1929
    4. 1930
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  240. Question 240

    Who were the two main founders of the Swaraj Party in 1923?
    1. C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru
    2. Vallabhbhai Patel and Rajendra Prasad
    3. C. Rajagopalachari and M.A. Ansari
    4. Motilal Nehru and Jawaharlal Nehru
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  241. Question 241

    Madam Bhikaji Cama hoisted the first Indian National Flag at the International Socialist Congress in 1907 at?
    1. Paris
    2. Berlin
    3. Stuttgart
    4. Geneva
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  242. Question 242

    The 'Komagata Maru' incident of 1914 was related to a ship carrying passengers from?
    1. Hong Kong to Canada
    2. Singapore to Australia
    3. Calcutta to London
    4. Bombay to South Africa
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  243. Question 243

    Who was the first President of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) founded in 1936?
    1. N.G. Ranga
    2. Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
    3. Indulal Yagnik
    4. Baba Ramchandra
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  244. Question 244

    On which ship did the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) Mutiny of 1946 first break out?
    1. INS Vikrant
    2. HMIS Talwar
    3. HMIS Akbar
    4. HMIS Rajputana
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  245. Question 245

    The Vaikom Satyagraha (1924-25) in Kerala was organized primarily for?
    1. Lowering of land revenue
    2. Temple entry for depressed classes
    3. Abolition of the plantation system
    4. Freedom of the press
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  246. Question 246

    Who is the author of the book 'The Indian Struggle', which chronicles the national movement from 1920 to 1942?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
    3. Subhash Chandra Bose
    4. Lala Lajpat Rai
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  247. Question 247

    In which year was the 'Rowlatt Act', which gave the government power to imprison people without trial, passed?
    1. 1917
    2. 1918
    3. 1919
    4. 1920
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  248. Question 248

    The 'Meerut Conspiracy Case' (1929) was directed primarily against the leaders of which ideology?
    1. Revolutionary Terrorism
    2. Gadar Movement
    3. Communist and Workers Movement
    4. Swarajist Movement
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  249. Question 249

    How many demands were included in Muhammad Ali Jinnah's 'Fourteen Points' of 1929?
    1. 11
    2. 14
    3. 21
    4. 7
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  250. Question 250

    The 'Mountbatten Plan' for the partition of India is also known as?
    1. Dickie Bird Plan
    2. June 3rd Plan
    3. Balkan Plan
    4. All of the above
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  251. Question 251

    Who was the Viceroy of India during the Swadeshi Movement?
    1. Lord Minto
    2. Lord Curzon
    3. Lord Chelmsford
    4. Lord Hardinge
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  252. Question 252

    Who among the following founded the 'Ghadar Party'?
    1. Bhagat Singh
    2. Lala Hardayal
    3. V.D. Savarkar
    4. Rash Behari Bose
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  253. Question 253

    Which of the following pairs of newspapers and their editors is correctly matched?
    1. Kesari – Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    2. New India – Mahatma Gandhi
    3. Al-Hilal – Annie Besant
    4. Bengalee – Maulana Azad
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  254. Question 254

    In which session of the Indian National Congress was the resolution for 'Purna Swaraj' (Complete Independence) passed?
    1. Belgaum Session, 1924
    2. Karachi Session, 1931
    3. Lahore Session, 1929
    4. Calcutta Session, 1928
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  255. Question 255

    Who was the revolutionary associated with the throwing of a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly in 1929 alongside Bhagat Singh?
    1. Rajguru
    2. Sukhdev
    3. Batukeshwar Dutt
    4. Jatindra Nath Das
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  256. Question 256

    Consider the following statements regarding the Simon Commission:

    1. It was appointed in 1927 to review the working of the Government of India Act, 1919.
    2. It consisted of seven members, including one Indian representative.

    Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
    1. 1 only
    2. 2 only
    3. Both 1 and 2
    4. Neither 1 nor 2
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  257. Question 257

    Which Satyagraha was Gandhi's first experiment with mass civil disobedience in India?
    1. Kheda Satyagraha
    2. Ahmedabad Mill Strike
    3. Champaran Satyagraha
    4. Rowlatt Satyagraha
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  258. Question 258

    Who was the British Viceroy when the 'Vernacular Press Act' was repealed in 1882?
    1. Lord Lytton
    2. Lord Ripon
    3. Lord Dufferin
    4. Lord Lansdowne
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  259. Question 259

    The 'Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar' was a famous parallel government formed in which district of West Bengal?
    1. Midnapore
    2. Hooghly
    3. Bankura
    4. Nadia
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  260. Question 260

    Who among the following was known by the title 'Frontier Gandhi'?
    1. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
    2. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
    3. Sheikh Abdullah
    4. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
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  261. Question 261

    Which act introduced 'Diarchy' (dual government) at the provincial level in India?
    1. Indian Councils Act, 1909
    2. Government of India Act, 1919
    3. Government of India Act, 1935
    4. Indian Independence Act, 1947
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  262. Question 262

    In which year did the historic 'Dandi March' begin to protest against the salt tax?
    1. 1920
    2. 1930
    3. 1932
    4. 1942
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  263. Question 263

    Who was the founder-president of the 'Swaraj Party' formed in 1923?
    1. Motilal Nehru
    2. C.R. Das
    3. C. Rajagopalachari
    4. Vallabhbhai Patel
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  264. Question 264

    The 'Komagata Maru' incident of 1914 was related to which of the following?
    1. A peasant uprising in Punjab
    2. A Japanese steamship carrying Indian immigrants to Canada
    3. A naval mutiny in Bombay
    4. A secret revolutionary society in Bengal
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  265. Question 265

    Who was the first woman president of the Indian National Congress?
    1. Sarojini Naidu
    2. Annie Besant
    3. Nellie Sengupta
    4. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
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  266. Question 266

    Which revolutionary organization was responsible for the 'Chittagong Armoury Raid' in 1930?
    1. Anushilan Samiti
    2. Jugantar
    3. Indian Republican Army (Chittagong Branch)
    4. Abhinav Bharat
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  267. Question 267

    The 'August Offer' of 1940 was issued by which British Viceroy?
    1. Lord Linlithgow
    2. Lord Wavell
    3. Lord Mountbatten
    4. Lord Willingdon
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  268. Question 268

    Who was the leader of the 'Eka Movement' (Unity Movement) of 1921 in Awadh?
    1. Baba Ramchandra
    2. Madari Pasi
    3. Sahajanand Saraswati
    4. Alluri Sitarama Raju
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  269. Question 269

    Which commission was appointed in 1947 to demarcate the international boundaries between India and Pakistan?
    1. Hunter Commission
    2. Radcliffe Commission
    3. Cripps Mission
    4. Cabinet Mission
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  270. Question 270

    Who was the first Indian to be elected as a member of the British House of Commons?
    1. Surendranath Banerjee
    2. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    3. Dadabhai Naoroji
    4. Pherozeshah Mehta
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  271. Question 271

    The 'Vaikom Satyagraha' of 1924–25 was primarily launched to?
    1. Protest against the salt tax
    2. Demand temple entry rights for lower castes
    3. Support the Khilafat cause
    4. Resist the land revenue increase
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  272. Question 272

    Which British official was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919?
    1. General Dyer
    2. Michael O'Dwyer
    3. Lord Hunter
    4. Lord Curzon
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  273. Question 273

    Who among the following was the founder of the 'Servants of India Society' in 1905?
    1. M.G. Ranade
    2. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    3. Jyotiba Phule
    4. B.R. Ambedkar
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  274. Question 274

    The 'Mountbatten Plan' of June 3, 1947, was primarily concerned with?
    1. The introduction of the 1935 Act
    2. The procedure for the transfer of power and partition
    3. The suppression of the Quit India Movement
    4. The formation of the Interim Government
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  275. Question 275

    In which year was the 'Indian Independence Act' passed by the British Parliament?
    1. 1950
    2. 1946
    3. 1948
    4. 1947
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  276. Question 276

    In which year was the Partition of Bengal officially annulled by the British government?
    1. 1909
    2. 1906
    3. 1911
    4. 1912
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  277. Question 277

    Who among the following is famously known as the 'Grand Old Man of India'?
    1. Dadabhai Naoroji
    2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    4. Surendranath Banerjee
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  278. Question 278

    In which language was Mahatma Gandhi's famous book 'Hind Swaraj' originally written in 1909?
    1. English
    2. Gujarati
    3. Hindi
    4. Marathi
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  279. Question 279

    Which incident led Mahatma Gandhi to abruptly withdraw the Non-Cooperation Movement in February 1922?
    1. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
    2. Arrest of the Ali Brothers
    3. Kakori Conspiracy
    4. Chauri Chaura Incident
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  280. Question 280

    Who was the founder of the 'All India Muslim League', established at Dhaka in 1906?
    1. Nawab Salimullah
    2. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
    3. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
    4. Aga Khan III
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  281. Question 281

    Which British Act was described by Indian nationalists as the 'Black Act'?
    1. Vernacular Press Act
    2. Indian Councils Act, 1909
    3. Rowlatt Act, 1919
    4. Government of India Act, 1935
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  282. Question 282

    Who was the main leader behind the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928?
    1. Mahatma Gandhi
    2. Vallabhbhai Patel
    3. Jawaharlal Nehru
    4. C. Rajagopalachari
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  283. Question 283

    Who was the first individual to be chosen by Mahatma Gandhi for the 'Individual Satyagraha' in 1940?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Sardar Patel
    3. C. Rajagopalachari
    4. Vinoba Bhave
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  284. Question 284

    Which newspaper was started by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad to propagate nationalist ideas among Muslims?
    1. Al-Hilal
    2. Comrade
    3. Hamdard
    4. New India
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  285. Question 285

    The 'Lucknow Pact' of 1916 was an agreement signed between which two organizations?
    1. Moderates and Extremists
    2. Congress and the British Government
    3. Indian National Congress and the Muslim League
    4. Swaraj Party and the Congress
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  286. Question 286

    Who was the revolutionary leader known for the slogan "Inquilab Zindabad"?
    1. Subhash Chandra Bose
    2. Bhagat Singh
    3. Chandra Shekhar Azad
    4. Ram Prasad Bismil
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  287. Question 287

    In which year was the 'Quit India Movement' launched by the Indian National Congress?
    1. 1930
    2. 1932
    3. 1940
    4. 1942
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  288. Question 288

    Who was the British Viceroy of India during the visit of the Simon Commission in 1928?
    1. Lord Irwin
    2. Lord Reading
    3. Lord Chelmsford
    4. Lord Linlithgow
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  289. Question 289

    The 'Poona Pact' (1932) was signed between Mahatma Gandhi and which other leader?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
    3. B.R. Ambedkar
    4. Madan Mohan Malaviya
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  290. Question 290

    Who was the founder of the 'Hindustan Republican Association' (HRA) in 1924?
    1. Bhagat Singh
    2. Sachindra Nath Sanyal
    3. Surya Sen
    4. Jatin Das
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  291. Question 291

    Which Indian leader represented the Congress in the Second Round Table Conference held in London?
    1. Sarojini Naidu
    2. Madan Mohan Malaviya
    3. B.R. Ambedkar
    4. Mahatma Gandhi
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  292. Question 292

    The 'Nehru Report' of 1928 was a response to which British official's challenge?
    1. Lord Birkenhead
    2. Lord Curzon
    3. Lord Reading
    4. Lord Montagu
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  293. Question 293

    Who was the leader of the 'Ghadar Movement' who died in the Lahore Conspiracy Case?
    1. Hardayal
    2. Sohan Singh Bhakna
    3. Kartar Singh Sarabha
    4. Kartar Singh Sarabha
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  294. Question 294

    Which commission was sent to India in 1946 to discuss the transfer of power and the framework of a new constitution?
    1. Simon Commission
    2. Cabinet Mission
    3. Cripps Mission
    4. Hunter Commission
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  295. Question 295

    Who was the first Indian to raise the Indian National Flag on foreign soil in 1907?
    1. Lala Hardayal
    2. V.D. Savarkar
    3. Sardar Singh Rana
    4. Madam Bhikaiji Cama
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  296. Question 296

    Which Satyagraha did Mahatma Gandhi launch to support the mill workers of Gujarat in 1918?
    1. Ahmedabad Mill Strike
    2. Kheda Satyagraha
    3. Champaran Satyagraha
    4. Rowlatt Satyagraha
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  297. Question 297

    Who among the following was the founder of the 'Forward Bloc' within the Indian National Congress?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Sardar Patel
    3. Subhash Chandra Bose
    4. J.B. Kripalani
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  298. Question 298

    The 'August Offer' of 1940 was primarily a move to gain Indian support for which event?
    1. Civil Disobedience
    2. World War II
    3. Quit India Movement
    4. Round Table Conference
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  299. Question 299

    Who was the prominent leader of the 'Wahabi Movement' in India during the 19th century?
    1. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
    2. Shariatullah
    3. Dudu Miyan
    4. Syed Ahmed of Rae Bareilly
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  300. Question 300

    In which year did the 'Indian Naval Mutiny' (RIN Revolt) break out in Bombay?
    1. 1942
    2. 1944
    3. 1946
    4. 1947
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  301. Question 301

    In which year did the historic 'Surat Split' of the Indian National Congress take place?
    1. 1905
    2. 1906
    3. 1907
    4. 1909
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  302. Question 302

    Who among the following was the primary architect of the 'Home Rule Movement' in India alongside Annie Besant?
    1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    2. Lala Lajpat Rai
    3. Bipin Chandra Pal
    4. Aurobindo Ghosh
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  303. Question 303

    Mahatma Gandhi's first successful experiment with 'Satyagraha' in India took place at which location?
    1. Ahmedabad
    2. Kheda
    3. Champaran
    4. Bardoli
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  304. Question 304

    Which incident in 1922 led Mahatma Gandhi to suspend the Non-Cooperation Movement?
    1. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
    2. Chauri Chaura Incident
    3. Kakori Conspiracy
    4. Arrest of the Ali Brothers
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  305. Question 305

    Who were the founders of the 'Swaraj Party', established within the Congress in 1923?
    1. Subhas Chandra Bose and Vallabhbhai Patel
    2. Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad
    3. C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru
    4. C. Rajagopalachari and M.A. Ansari
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  306. Question 306

    The 'Simon Commission', which was boycotted by Indians, arrived in India in which year?
    1. 1927
    2. 1928
    3. 1929
    4. 1930
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  307. Question 307

    At which session of the Indian National Congress was the resolution for 'Purna Swaraj' (Complete Independence) passed?
    1. Calcutta Session, 1928
    2. Lahore Session, 1929
    3. Karachi Session, 1931
    4. Haripura Session, 1938
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  308. Question 308

    From which location did Mahatma Gandhi begin his famous 'Dandi March' in 1930?
    1. Dandi Coast
    2. Sabarmati Ashram
    3. Wardha Ashram
    4. Porbandar
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  309. Question 309

    Who was the British Viceroy of India during the launch of the 'Quit India Movement' in 1942?
    1. Lord Linlithgow
    2. Lord Wavell
    3. Lord Mountbatten
    4. Lord Willingdon
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  310. Question 310

    Which revolutionary leader is popularly known as 'Master Da'?
    1. Bhagat Singh
    2. Chandra Shekhar Azad
    3. Surya Sen
    4. Jatindra Nath Das
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  311. Question 311

    The 'Ghadar Party' was founded by Lala Hardayal in 1913 at which city?
    1. London
    2. Berlin
    3. San Francisco
    4. Tokyo
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  312. Question 312

    Which woman leader presided over the 1925 Kanpur session of the Indian National Congress?
    1. Annie Besant
    2. Sarojini Naidu
    3. Nellie Sengupta
    4. Aruna Asaf Ali
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  313. Question 313

    Who among the following is famously known as 'Frontier Gandhi'?
    1. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
    2. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
    3. Sheikh Abdullah
    4. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
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  314. Question 314

    The 'Poona Pact' of 1932 was an agreement signed between Mahatma Gandhi and whom?
    1. Lord Willingdon
    2. B.R. Ambedkar
    3. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
    4. Madan Mohan Malaviya
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  315. Question 315

    Who was the founder of the 'Indian National Army' (INA) in 1942?
    1. Subhas Chandra Bose
    2. Rash Behari Bose
    3. Mohan Singh
    4. Bhagat Singh
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  316. Question 316

    Which British Act introduced 'Diarchy' at the provincial level in India?
    1. Indian Councils Act, 1909
    2. Government of India Act, 1919
    3. Government of India Act, 1935
    4. Rowlatt Act, 1919
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  317. Question 317

    Who gave the famous slogan "Do or Die" during the Quit India Movement?
    1. Subhas Chandra Bose
    2. Jawaharlal Nehru
    3. Mahatma Gandhi
    4. Sardar Patel
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  318. Question 318

    Which British Viceroy is associated with the 'Partition of Bengal' in 1905?
    1. Lord Curzon
    2. Lord Minto
    3. Lord Hardinge
    4. Lord Chelmsford
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  319. Question 319

    Who authored the famous newspaper 'Young India' and 'Harijan'?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    3. Mahatma Gandhi
    4. B.R. Ambedkar
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  320. Question 320

    The 'Lucknow Pact' of 1916 was an agreement signed between the Indian National Congress and which other party?
    1. Hindu Mahasabha
    2. Muslim League
    3. Ghadar Party
    4. Swaraj Party
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  321. Question 321

    Who among the following was the first Governor-General of independent India?
    1. C. Rajagopalachari
    2. Lord Mountbatten
    3. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
    4. Jawaharlal Nehru
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  322. Question 322

    Which revolutionary leader was involved in the 'Kakori Train Robbery' of 1925?
    1. Ram Prasad Bismil
    2. Bhagat Singh
    3. Batukeshwar Dutt
    4. Surya Sen
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  323. Question 323

    Who is known as the 'Father of Indian Unrest' according to British author Valentine Chirol?
    1. Mahatma Gandhi
    2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    3. Subhas Chandra Bose
    4. Bipin Chandra Pal
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  324. Question 324

    The 'Cabinet Mission' was sent to India in which year?
    1. 1942
    2. 1945
    3. 1946
    4. 1947
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  325. Question 325

    Who founded the 'Servants of India Society' in 1905?
    1. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    2. M.G. Ranade
    3. Dadabhai Naoroji
    4. Annie Besant
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  326. Question 326

    Who was the first President of the Indian Home Rule League?
    1. N.C. Kelkar
    2. Joseph Baptista
    3. Annie Besant
    4. G.S. Khaparde
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  327. Question 327

    Which revolutionary organization was founded by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 1904?
    1. Anushilan Samiti
    2. Jugantar Party
    3. Abhinav Bharat Society
    4. Ghadar Party
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  328. Question 328

    Who gave the famous slogan "Dilli Chalo" to inspire the Indian National Army (INA)?
    1. Rash Behari Bose
    2. Bhagat Singh
    3. Subhash Chandra Bose
    4. Mohan Singh
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  329. Question 329

    Who was the Viceroy of India when the capital was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi in 1911?
    1. Lord Curzon
    2. Lord Minto II
    3. Lord Hardinge II
    4. Lord Chelmsford
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  330. Question 330

    Who was the political guru of Mahatma Gandhi after his return to India from South Africa?
    1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    2. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    3. Dadabhai Naoroji
    4. Pherozeshah Mehta
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  331. Question 331

    In which year was the 'Lucknow Pact' signed between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League?
    1. 1906
    2. 1909
    3. 1916
    4. 1919
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  332. Question 332

    Who among the following is famously known as the "Iron Man of India"?
    1. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
    2. B.R. Ambedkar
    3. Subhash Chandra Bose
    4. Lala Lajpat Rai
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  333. Question 333

    Who was the author of the book 'The Indian War of Independence 1857'?
    1. S.N. Sen
    2. V.D. Savarkar
    3. R.C. Majumdar
    4. Ashok Mehta
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  334. Question 334

    Who was the British Prime Minister who announced the 'Communal Award' in 1932?
    1. Winston Churchill
    2. Clement Attlee
    3. Ramsay MacDonald
    4. Neville Chamberlain
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  335. Question 335

    Who was the prominent leader of the "Deshbandhu" title in Indian history?
    1. Chittaranjan Das
    2. Madan Mohan Malaviya
    3. Pherozeshah Mehta
    4. Motilal Nehru
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  336. Question 336

    Who founded the 'Independent Labour Party' in 1936?
    1. Jyotiba Phule
    2. M.N. Roy
    3. B.R. Ambedkar
    4. Jagjivan Ram
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  337. Question 337

    Which British Viceroy issued the 'August Offer' in 1940 to secure Indian cooperation during World War II?
    1. Lord Wavell
    2. Lord Linlithgow
    3. Lord Reading
    4. Lord Willingdon
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  338. Question 338

    Who presided over the historic Surat session of the Indian National Congress in 1907?
    1. Rash Behari Ghosh
    2. Dadabhai Naoroji
    3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    4. Pherozeshah Mehta
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  339. Question 339

    Who was the second individual to offer 'Individual Satyagraha' after Vinoba Bhave in 1940?
    1. Sardar Patel
    2. Jawaharlal Nehru
    3. C. Rajagopalachari
    4. Sarojini Naidu
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  340. Question 340

    Who was the founder of the 'Jugantar' party, a revolutionary group in Bengal?
    1. P. Mitra
    2. Barindra Kumar Ghosh
    3. Rash Behari Bose
    4. Aurobindo Ghosh
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  341. Question 341

    Which revolutionary wrote the famous essay 'Why I am an Atheist' while in prison?
    1. Chandra Shekhar Azad
    2. Ram Prasad Bismil
    3. Bhagat Singh
    4. Batukeshwar Dutt
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  342. Question 342

    The 'Direct Action Day' was observed by the Muslim League on which date in 1946?
    1. August 14
    2. August 15
    3. August 16
    4. August 18
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  343. Question 343

    Who presided over the 1938 Haripura session of the Indian National Congress?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Subhash Chandra Bose
    3. J.B. Kripalani
    4. Maulana Azad
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  344. Question 344

    Who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time of India's independence in 1947?
    1. Winston Churchill
    2. Neville Chamberlain
    3. Clement Attlee
    4. Anthony Eden
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  345. Question 345

    Who was the main organizer of the 'Hindustan Socialist Republican Association' (HSRA) after the arrest of HRA leaders?
    1. Bhagat Singh
    2. Chandra Shekhar Azad
    3. Batukeshwar Dutt
    4. Sukhdev
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  346. Question 346

    Who founded the 'Indian Independence League' in Tokyo in 1942?
    1. Subhash Chandra Bose
    2. Rash Behari Bose
    3. Mohan Singh
    4. Giani Pritam Singh
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  347. Question 347

    Which newspaper was edited by Annie Besant to propagate her ideas on Home Rule?
    1. New India
    2. Young India
    3. The Bengali
    4. The Hindu
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  348. Question 348

    The 'Deepavali Declaration' of 1929 regarding the status of India was issued by which Viceroy?
    1. Lord Reading
    2. Lord Irwin
    3. Lord Willingdon
    4. Lord Linlithgow
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  349. Question 349

    Who was the founder of the 'Naujawan Bharat Sabha' in 1926?
    1. Bhagat Singh
    2. Chandra Shekhar Azad
    3. Surya Sen
    4. Jatin Das
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  350. Question 350

    Who among the following was the first Viceroy of India?
    1. Lord Dalhousie
    2. Lord Canning
    3. Lord Elgin
    4. Lord Lawrence
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  351. Question 351

    Who presided over the 1905 Banaras Session of the Indian National Congress?
    1. Dadabhai Naoroji
    2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    4. Rash Behari Ghosh
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  352. Question 352

    In which year did the Muzaffarpur killing attempt take place?
    1. 1905
    2. 1907
    3. 1908
    4. 1911
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  353. Question 353

    Who was the first President of the All India Muslim League?
    1. Aga Khan III
    2. Nawab Salimullah
    3. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
    4. Liaquat Ali Khan
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  354. Question 354

    Which revolutionary founded the Ghadar Party in San Francisco in 1913?
    1. Bhagat Singh
    2. Lala Hardayal
    3. V.D. Savarkar
    4. Rash Behari Bose
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  355. Question 355

    In which year did the historic 'Lucknow Pact' take place?
    1. 1909
    2. 1916
    3. 1919
    4. 1920
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  356. Question 356

    What was the primary reason for Mahatma Gandhi's 'Champaran Satyagraha'?
    1. High land revenue
    2. Tinkathia system of indigo cultivation
    3. Salt tax
    4. Mill workers' wages
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  357. Question 357

    Who was the British Viceroy of India during the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in 1919?
    1. Lord Curzon
    2. Lord Minto
    3. Lord Chelmsford
    4. Lord Irwin
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  358. Question 358

    Which newspaper was edited by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad to propagate nationalist ideas?
    1. New India
    2. Al-Hilal
    3. Kesari
    4. Comrade
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  359. Question 359

    Who was the founder-president of the Swaraj Party ?
    1. Motilal Nehru
    2. Chittaranjan Das
    3. Subhash Chandra Bose
    4. Vallabhbhai Patel
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  360. Question 360

    In which year did the Simon Commission arrive in India?
    1. 1927
    2. 1928
    3. 1929
    4. 1930
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  361. Question 361

    Who presided over the historic Lahore Session of 1929 of the Indian National Congress?
    1. Motilal Nehru
    2. Mahatma Gandhi
    3. Jawaharlal Nehru
    4. Subhash Chandra Bose
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  362. Question 362

    On which date did the famous 'Dandi March' begin?
    1. March 12, 1930
    2. April 6, 1930
    3. August 8, 1942
    4. January 26, 1930
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  363. Question 363

    The Poona Pact of 1932 was an agreement between Mahatma Gandhi and whom?
    1. Lord Irwin
    2. B.R. Ambedkar
    3. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
    4. Ramsay MacDonald
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  364. Question 364

    Who was the founder of the 'Forward Bloc'?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Subhash Chandra Bose
    3. J.B. Kripalani
    4. Maulana Azad
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  365. Question 365

    Which British Viceroy issued the 'August Offer'?
    1. Lord Linlithgow
    2. Lord Wavell
    3. Lord Mountbatten
    4. Lord Willingdon
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  366. Question 366

    Who gave the call "Do or Die" during the Quit India Movement in 1942?
    1. Subhash Chandra Bose
    2. Jawaharlal Nehru
    3. Mahatma Gandhi
    4. Sardar Patel
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  367. Question 367

    Who was the founder of the 'Azad Hind Fauj' (Indian National Army) in 1942?
    1. Subhash Chandra Bose
    2. Rash Behari Bose
    3. Mohan Singh
    4. Bhagat Singh
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  368. Question 368

    Who was the first woman President of the Indian National Congress?
    1. Sarojini Naidu
    2. Annie Besant
    3. Nellie Sengupta
    4. Aruna Asaf Ali
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  369. Question 369

    Which British official was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh firing?
    1. General Dyer
    2. Lord Curzon
    3. Michael O'Dwyer
    4. Lord Minto
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  370. Question 370

    Who wrote the famous book 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India'?
    1. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    2. Dadabhai Naoroji
    3. B.G. Tilak
    4. M.G. Ranade
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  371. Question 371

    Who gave the slogan "Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it"?
    1. Mahatma Gandhi
    2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    3. Subhash Chandra Bose
    4. Lala Lajpat Rai
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  372. Question 372

    In which year was the 'Cabinet Mission' sent to India?
    1. 1942
    2. 1945
    3. 1946
    4. 1947
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  373. Question 373

    Who was the last British Viceroy of India?
    1. Lord Wavell
    2. Lord Mountbatten
    3. Lord Linlithgow
    4. Lord Irwin
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  374. Question 374

    Who was known as the 'Frontier Gandhi'?
    1. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
    2. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
    3. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
    4. Sheikh Abdullah
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  375. Question 375

    Who founded the 'Indian Independence League'?
    1. Subhash Chandra Bose
    2. Rash Behari Bose
    3. Mohan Singh
    4. Bhagat Singh
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