WBCS 2019 — History Questions with Answers
All 100 History previous-year questions from WBCS 2019, each with the correct answer and a full explanation. Practise them as a free, timed mock test with instant scoring.
Practice History as a timed test →- Q1.Freedom Struggle
The Congress decided to raise a Swaraj Fund of one crore rupees for:
- a)Organizing the Non-Co-operation Movement
- b)Memorial of Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- c)Building the headquarters of the Congress
- d)Supporting the families of the political workers.
- Q2.Freedom Struggle
The Historic Lucknow Session of the Congress in 1916 was presided over by:
- a)Mrs. Annie Besant
- b)R.N. Mudhokar
- c)Ambika Charan Majumdar
- d)Madan Mohan Malyviya
- Q3.Freedom Struggle
The brain behind the bomb attack on Viceroy Lord Hardinge at Chandni Chawk, Delhi in December 1912, was:
- a)Rasbehari Basu
- b)Bhai Parmanand
- c)Sachindranath Sanyal
- d)Shobhan Lal Pathak
- Q4.Modern India
After the Partition of Bengal, the two new provinces which came into existence were:
- a)East Bengal and Bengal
- b)East Bengal and West Bengal
- c)East Bengal and Assam
- d)East Bengal and North Bengal
- Q5.Freedom Struggle
Who killed Michael O' Dyer, the Governor of Punjab, who had ordered the brutal firing on the innocent people at Jalianwala Bag?
- a)Madan Lal Dhingra
- b)Sardar Udham Singh
- c)Sohan Singh Bhakra
- d)Kanai Lal Dutt
- Q6.Freedom Struggle
The founder President of the Harijan Sevak Sangha, founded by M.K. Gandhi, was:
- a)Mahadev Desai
- b)G.D. Birla
- c)Amrit Lal Thakkar
- d)B.R. Ambedkar
- Q7.Freedom Struggle
The day M.K. Gandhi launched the Non-Co-operation Movement, a great National leader died, he was:
- a)Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- b)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- c)Pheroze Shah Mehta
- d)C.R. Das
- Q8.Modern India
A Public Service Commission was established in India for the first time by:
- a)The Indian Council Act 1892
- b)Act of 1909
- c)The Government of India Act, 1919
- d)The Government of India Act, 1935
- Q9.Freedom Struggle
After the Surat split in 1907, the Second Split in the Congress took place in 1918 on the issue of:
- a)Lucknow Pact
- b)Montagu Declaration
- c)Election of Mrs. Annie Besant as President of the INC (1917)
- d)Both (A) & (C)
- Q10.Freedom Struggle
The European Organization in India which launched agitation against the Ilbert Bill was:
- a)European Defence Association
- b)Indo-British Association
- c)Anti Ilbert Bill League
- d)European Rights Front
- Q11.Freedom Struggle
He was a great Indian revolutionary who was a Professor of Sanskrit and Philosophy in the Universities of Berkeley and Standford and died as a sanyasi in Philadelphia, He was:
- a)Shyamji Krishna Verma
- b)Lala Hardayal
- c)Bhai Parmanand
- d)Ram Chandra Bhardwaj
- Q12.Bengal History
Who edited a Bengali weekly the 'Jugantor' and 'Basumati'?
- a)Barindra Ghosh
- b)Aurobindo Ghosh
- c)Ganesh Ghosh
- d)Anand Mohan Bose
- Q13.Freedom Struggle
Madan Lal Dhingra murdered Curzon Wylie in London, who was a/an __________.
- a)Adviser to the Secretary of State for India.
- b)Secretary of State for India.
- c)Former Governor of the Punjab
- d)Law Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council
- Q14.Modern India
Gopal Hari Deshmukh is popularly Known as 'Lokhitwadi' because:
- a)He was a great philanthropist and social worker.
- b)He distributed money and medicines to the poor and the needy.
- c)He edited a monthly magazine the 'Lokhitwadi'.
- d)All of the above
- Q15.Modern India
The Vaikkom Satyagraha was launched in 1924 for:
- a)opening the temples to the low caste Hindus.
- b)fighting against the exploitation by the Landlords.
- c)removal of Press restrictions.
- d)democratisation of the administration of Travancore State.
- Q16.Freedom Struggle
Which of the following acted as President of the Indian National Congress for six Consecutive years?
- a)Jawaharlal Nehru
- b)Dadabhai Naoroji
- c)Abul Kalam Azad
- d)Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- Q17.Freedom Struggle
Which of the following revolutionary and terrorist organizations had a large number of young women revolutionaries?
- a)Yugantor
- b)Anushilan Samiti
- c)Bharat Mata Society
- d)Indian Republican Army
- Q18.Freedom Struggle
The Nehru Committee Report got a decent burial at the hands of the Congress at the __________ Session of the I.N.C.
- a)Calcutta
- b)Madras
- c)Lahore
- d)Bombay
- Q19.Freedom Struggle
Who was the first to unfurl the first Indian National Flag, the parent and precursor of the Flag of Independent India?
- a)Madam Vikaiji Cama
- b)Dadabhai Naoroji
- c)Raja Mahendra Pratap
- d)Taraknath Das
- Q20.Freedom Struggle
Who gave the title of Rani to the Naga woman leader Gaidinliu?
- a)Subhas Chandra Basu
- b)Jawaharlal Nehru
- c)Thakkar Bapa
- d)Mahatma Gandhi
- Q21.Modern India
Who founded a Social Organization, the 'Jat Pat Torak Mandal' in 1922, for breaking the caste barriers among the Hindus?
- a)Bhai Parmanand
- b)Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
- c)M.G. Ranade
- d)Keshab Chandra Sen
- Q22.Freedom Struggle
Which of the following was not a leader of the All India Hindu Mahasabha?
- a)V.D. Savarkar
- b)Bhai Parmanand
- c)Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
- d)M.R. Jayakar
- Q23.Freedom Struggle
Dadabhai Naoroji was elected to the British House of Commons as a member of the __________ party.
- a)Conservative
- b)Liberal
- c)Labour
- d)Labour-Liberal Combine
- Q24.Freedom Struggle
The only Indian prince, who actively participated in the revolutionary movement within and outside India, was:
- a)Raja Mahendra Pratap
- b)Kunwar Singh
- c)Chhatrapati Sahu
- d)Raja Ripudaman Singh
- Q25.Freedom Struggle
Bal Gangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of Lokmanya during:
- a)Swadeshi Movement
- b)Revolutionary Movement
- c)Home Rule Movement
- d)His imprisonment in 1908
- Q26.Freedom Struggle
The issue of discussion and stalemate at the Second Round Table Conference related to the:
- a)Communal Problem
- b)Federal Structure
- c)Demand for Purna Swarajya
- d)Representation of Depressed Classes
- Q27.Freedom Struggle
Who of the following was not hanged in the famous Kakori Train Dacoity Case?
- a)Pandit Ramprasad Bismil
- b)Roshan Lal
- c)Ashfaqulla Khan
- d)Surya Sen
- Q28.Bengal History
The Chittagong Armoury Raid had been planned by:
- a)Surya Sen
- b)Chandra Dutta
- c)Vidhan Ghosh
- d)Jatin Das
- Q29.Bengal History
The two greatest women revolutioneries of the National Movement–Pritilata Wadedar and Kalpana Dutta were the revolutionary co-workers of:
- a)Surya Sen
- b)Bhagat Singh
- c)Batokeshwar Dutt
- d)Chapekar brothers
- Q30.Freedom Struggle
Who murdered Sunders, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Lahore, for assualting Lala Lajpat Rai?
- a)Bhagat Singh
- b)Batukeswar Dutt
- c)Sukh Dev
- d)Raj Guru
- Q31.Freedom Struggle
Why did Bhagat Singh and Batukeswar Dutt throw bombs on the floor of the Central Assembly in New Delhi and in the Process got themselves arrested?
- a)After the murders of Sanders at Lahore, the people were suffering terribly at the hands of the Police.
- b)A feeling had slowly gained around that the people had to suffer the consequences of the crimes committed by Bhagat Singh, etc. to remove such a feeling H.S.R.A. decided to send two members to commit a crime and then to court arrest.
- c)To create a sensation all over India in order to remove political lethargy
- d)All of the above
- Q32.Freedom Struggle
Jatin Das, an accused in the Lahore Conspiracy Case, on whose death the family of the Irish martyr, Teren Macswiney sent condolence message to the family of Das, died after undertaking a fast of __________ days.
- a)fifty six
- b)sixty three
- c)seventy two
- d)eighty one
- Q33.Freedom Struggle
Subhas Chandra Basu was unanimously elected President of the I.N.C. at the Haripur Session held in February:
- a)1936
- b)1937
- c)1938
- d)1939
- Q34.Freedom Struggle
What was the fundamental difference between Subhas Chandra Basu and Gandhi-Nehru group, which led to the defeat of Gandhiji's candidate for the Presidentship of the I.N.C.?
- a)Gandhiji had a personal dislike for Basu.
- b)Basu had radical and socialist ideas.
- c)Basu wanted to exploit the war between Germany and Britain to India's advantage and said: "England's necessity is India's opportunity"
- d)Insinuations made by Basu against Gandhiji that he was not keen on carrying on the National Struggle.
- Q35.Freedom Struggle
The Tripuri Session of the I.N.C. (March, 1939) was a historic event on account of:
- a)the victory of Subhas Chandra Basu as President of I.N.C. against Gandhiji's nominee, Pattabhi Sitaramayya.
- b)the resignation of the entire Working Committee except Subhas Chandra Basu and his brother Sarat Chandra Basu.
- c)the resolution to frame a Constitution of free India.
- d)rejection of the British Foreign Policy by the I.N.C.
- Q36.Freedom Struggle
After Leaving the Congress, Subhas Chandra Bose organized the Forward Block in:
- a)1939
- b)1938
- c)1940
- d)1941
- Q37.Freedom Struggle
The main principle of M.K. Gandhi's famous Basic Education System or Wardha Scheme was:
- a)Learning through activity
- b)Learning through productivity
- c)Earning and learning
- d)Learning and spinning
- Q38.Freedom Struggle
Match the following events with the dates of their occurence: (a) August Offer (b) Arrival of Cripps Mission (c) Quit India Resolution (d) The Great August Uprising; I. August 9-11, 1942 II. July 14, 1942 III. March 23, 1942 IV. August 8, 1940
- a)a-IV, b-III, c-II, d-I
- b)a-III, b-II, c-I, d-IV
- c)a-IV, b-II, c-III, d-I
- d)a-IV, b-III, c-I, d-II
- Q39.Freedom Struggle
The four brigades of the I.N.A. were named after:
- a)Lal, Bal, Pal, Subhas
- b)Surya, Chandra, Jatin, Bhagat
- c)Gandhi, Azad, Nehru, Subhas
- d)Ganga, Yamuna, Narmada, Kaveri
- Q40.Freedom Struggle
The first Provisional Government of Free India was inaugurated by Subhas Chandra Basu at:
- a)Imphal
- b)Kohima
- c)Singapore
- d)Rangoon
- Q41.Freedom Struggle
British Prime Minister Attlee made the historic announcement of the end of British rule of India on:
- a)February 20, 1947
- b)August 16, 1946
- c)March 7, 1947
- d)December 9, 1946
- Q42.Freedom Struggle
Lord Mountbatten's Declaration on the Freedom of India and its partition is known as:
- a)The August Plan
- b)The June 3rd Plan
- c)The June 2nd Plan
- d)The Partition Plan
- Q43.Modern India
A brilliant and patriotic Anglo-Indian teacher, Henry Vivian Derozeo, was the founder of:
- a)The Young Bengal Movement
- b)The Indian National Union
- c)The Servants of India Society
- d)The British India Association
- Q44.Modern India
Match the authors with their works: (a) Dr.Rajendra Prasad (b) Abul Kalam Azad (c) V.D. Savarkar (d) C.Rajagopalachari; I. The Nations Voice II. India Divided III. India Wins Freedom IV. Indian War of Independence
- a)a-II, b-III, c-IV, d-I
- b)a-III, b-II, c-I, d-IV
- c)a-I, b-II, c-III, d-IV
- d)a-II, b-III, c-I, d-IV
- Q45.Modern India
Certain movements of the early twentieth century described as 'Movements from below' were:
- a)Caste movements
- b)Revolutionary movements
- c)Peasant and tribal movements
- d)Socio-religious movements
- Q46.Modern India
Match the authors and the works: (a) Sceptred Flute (b) Savitri (c) India and the world (d) Conquest of Self; I. M.K. Gandhi II. Sarojini Naidu III. Aurobindo Ghosh IV. Jawaharlal Nehru
- a)a-I, b-II, c-III, d-IV
- b)a-IV, b-III, c-II, d-I
- c)a-II, b-III, c-IV, d-I
- d)a-II, b-I, c-IV, d-III
- Q47.Freedom Struggle
What approximately was the number of Princely States which legally became independent at the lapse of British paramountcy on August 15, 1947?
- a)300
- b)600
- c)150
- d)700
- Q48.Modern India
Ridiculing the idea of Swarajya in 1903; who said, "Only mad men outside lunatic assylums could think or talk of independence"?
- a)Lord Curzon
- b)Lord Hardinge
- c)Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- d)Pheroze Shah Mehta
- Q49.Modern India
During the British rule the only British King to visit India and hold his magnificent Durbar, was:
- a)Edward VII
- b)George V
- c)James II
- d)Edward VI
- Q50.Freedom Struggle
A Muslim organization, which proposed during the First World War that Muslims should participate and try to reach an accord with the Congress, was:
- a)Muslim League
- b)Ahmadiya Movement
- c)Ehrar League
- d)Deoband Movement
- Q51.Ancient India
Which of the following is not a feature of Lothal?
- a)Discovery of a dockyard
- b)Rectangular and circular fire alters for animal sacrifice
- c)Depiction of a ship on a seal
- d)Evidence of the use of the plough
- Q52.Ancient India
Who was the propounder of the Ajivika Sect?
- a)Purana Kassapa
- b)Pakuddha Kaccayana
- c)Makkali Gosala
- d)Ajita Keshakambalin
- Q53.Ancient India
The spies during the Sangam age was known as:
- a)Spasas
- b)Dutas
- c)Orrars
- d)Sanjayans
- Q54.Ancient India
Lands, during the post-Gupta period, were classified on the basis of:
- a)Being cultivated and uncultivated
- b)Being irrigated and unirrigated
- c)Crops being grown on the lands
- d)All of the above
- Q55.Art & Culture
The Pallava-Chola style of architecture is commonly known as:
- a)Pallava
- b)Chola
- c)Nagara
- d)Dravida
- Q56.Medieval India
The largest standing army of the Sultanate directly paid by the state was created by:
- a)Iltutmish
- b)Alauddin Khilji
- c)Muhammad Bin Tughlug
- d)Sikandar Lodi
- Q57.Medieval India
The Muslim kingdom of Golconda grew up on the ruins of the old Hindu kingdom of:
- a)Devagiri
- b)Dwarsamudra
- c)Warrangal
- d)Kanchi
- Q58.Medieval India
Which of the following did not form part of the contingents maintained by the mansabdars?
- a)Cavalrymen
- b)Artillerymen
- c)Bowmen
- d)Musketeers
- Q59.Medieval India
The chief Dutch export from the Coromondel Ports was:
- a)Textiles
- b)Indigo
- c)Spices
- d)Saltpetre
- Q60.Modern India
Which of the following is not one of the arrangements made by the English after defeating the Marathas in the third Anglo-Maratha war?
- a)The Peswaship was abolished.
- b)Holkar was forced to enter into a subsidiary alliance.
- c)The Gaekwar entered into a subsidiary alliance.
- d)The small kingdom of Satara formed out of Peswa dominions was given to Pratap Singh.
- Q61.Modern India
Who is known as the 'Plato of the Jat tribe'?
- a)Rajaram
- b)Churaman
- c)Badan Singh
- d)Surajmal
- Q62.Modern India
The Nawab of Awadh who was appointed the Wazir of the Mughal empire was:
- a)Sadat Khan
- b)Safdar Jang
- c)Asaf ud daula
- d)Nasiruddin
- Q63.Modern India
After Bengal, the English secured the rights of duty free trade in the dominions of:
- a)Raja of Benaras
- b)Nawab of Awadh
- c)The Nizam of Hyderabad
- d)The Jats of Bharatpur
- Q64.Modern India
A remarkable feature of the spread of landlordism was the growth of:
- a)Aristocracy
- b)Capitalism
- c)Sub-infeudation
- d)Cultivation
- Q65.Modern India
When did the Company lose its monopoly of Indian trade which was thrown open to all Britons?
- a)1813
- b)1833
- c)1853
- d)1793
- Q66.Modern India
The extension of the cultivation of indigo, cotton, opium, tea and coffee in India, besides benefitting the British planters, also benefited:
- a)The Zamindars
- b)The small merchants
- c)Both (A) and (B)
- d)The Indian Bankers
- Q67.Modern India
What was the primary reason for the failure of Mahalwari Settlement in checking the process of destruction of the village communities?
- a)It was introduced only as a temporary measure to be replaced ultimately by the rayatwari system.
- b)Individual rights in the land were recognized and guaranteed by the state.
- c)There were several defects and lacunae in the implementation of the measure
- d)It met with severe opposition from certain sections of the village community.
- Q68.Freedom Struggle
Which of the following was the chief organizer of the Revolt of 1857 in Bihar?
- a)Amar Singh
- b)Kunwar Singh
- c)Pir Ali
- d)Imaduddin
- Q69.Modern India
Which of the following consequences of the British rule did not affect the Muslim middle classes?
- a)The tyranny of the British Indigo Planters
- b)The disbandment of the Nawab's forces
- c)The abolition of the rural police
- d)The resumptions of Imam's lands which provided sustenance to the learned
- Q70.Freedom Struggle
The first session of the All India Trade Union Congress held in Bombay in 1920, was presided over by:
- a)Jawaharlal Nehru
- b)V. V. Giri
- c)Lala Lajpat Rai
- d)N. M Joshi
- Q71.Freedom Struggle
What was the solution found by B. R. Ambedkar in later years after Independence to end the hardship of scheduled class people?
- a)More Representations
- b)Separate Electorate
- c)Embracing the Buddhism
- d)Organized Movement
- Q72.Freedom Struggle
During the first twenty years of the Congress, which of the following acted as president of the INC thrice?
- a)Surendra Nath Banerjee
- b)Dadabhai Naoroji
- c)Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- d)Sankaran Nair
- Q73.Freedom Struggle
Aurobindo Ghosh was brilliantly defended by:
- a)Chittaranjan Das
- b)W. C. Bonerjee
- c)Motilal Nehru
- d)Tej Bahadur Sapru
- Q74.Freedom Struggle
The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association movement ended with the death of:
- a)Bhagat Singh
- b)Ram Prasad Bismil
- c)Chandra Sekhar Azad
- d)Jogesh Chandra Chatterji
- Q75.Freedom Struggle
The Congress gave up its ideal of a United India and accepted partition, because:
- a)The country was sinking into a civil war
- b)The congress leaders felt that partition was a lesser evil than a civil war
- c)The congress leaders succumbed to the temptation of power and struck a deal with the British
- d)The interim Govt had become an arena of struggle
- Q76.Freedom Struggle
Mahatma Gandhi first experimented with his technique of Satyagraha in:
- a)Champaran
- b)Khera
- c)Ahmedabad Mill Strike
- d)Anti Rowlatt Act Agitation
- Q77.Freedom Struggle
A senior congress leader, who held that the Quit India Movement was misguided and detrimental to India's long term interests, was:
- a)Tej bahadur Sapru
- b)Jayaprakash Narayan
- c)C. Rajagopalachari
- d)J. B. Kripalani
- Q78.Modern India
Match the social reformers of the nineteenth century with their individual contributions: (a) Raja Rammohan (b) Keshab Chandra Sen (c) Jyotiba Phule (d) Dayanand Saraswati; (i) Abolition of Sati (ii) Intercaste marriage, widow remarriage and emancipation of women (iii) Removal of untouchability (iv) Shuddhi movement and rejection of hereditary caste system
- a)a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv
- b)a-ii, b-i, c-iii, d-iv
- c)a-ii, b-i, c-iv, d-iii
- d)a-i, b-ii, c-iv, d-iii
- Q79.Freedom Struggle
The precurser of the Indian National Congress was:
- a)Indian Association of Calcutta
- b)Indian National Conference
- c)British Indian Association
- d)The Indian Union
- Q80.Freedom Struggle
The name 'Indian National Congress' was given by:
- a)S. N. Banerjee
- b)Dadabhai Naoroji
- c)Feroze Shah Mehta
- d)M. G. Ranade
- Q81.Freedom Struggle
The first president of the Indian National Congress was:
- a)A. O. Hume
- b)W. C. Bonerjee
- c)S. N. Banerjee
- d)Dadabhai Naoroji
- Q82.Freedom Struggle
Who said "The Congress is tottering to its fall, and one of my great ambitions, while in India, is to assist it to its peaceful demise"?
- a)Syed Ahmed Khan
- b)Raja Shiv Prasad
- c)Lord Dufferin
- d)Lord Curzon
- Q83.Freedom Struggle
Arrange the following events in the correct chronological order: I. Partition of Bengal II. Varanasi Session of the I. N. C. III. Calcutta Session of the I. N. C. IV. Foundation of Muslim League
- a)I II III IV
- b)II I III IV
- c)II II IV III
- d)I III IV II
- Q84.Freedom Struggle
The immediate cause of the Surat Split (1907) between the moderates and the extremists was:
- a)the Boycott of the moderates by the extremists.
- b)the election of the President of I. N. C.
- c)the Swaraj Resolution.
- d)the extremists resolution of Swadeshi, Boycott, National Education and Self-Government.
- Q85.Freedom Struggle
The Calcutta session of the I. N. C. (1906) marks a turning point in the history of the congress, because:
- a)it marked the end of the twenty years of the I. N. C.
- b)it marked the end of the moderate phase of the I. N. C.
- c)it adopted the resolutions regarding Boycott, Swadeshi, National Education and Self Government.
- d)it was the last session when the I. N. C. was dominated by the old guard.
- Q86.Freedom Struggle
Who were designated as Neo Nationalists?
- a)Extremists
- b)Revolutioneries
- c)Moderates
- d)Swarajists
- Q87.Freedom Struggle
The I. N. C. became both 'Indian' and 'National' in reality as well as in rare, at the:
- a)Surat Session (1907)
- b)Calcutta Session (1906)
- c)Lucknow Session (1916)
- d)Lahore Session (1929)
- Q88.Freedom Struggle
Match the papers or periodicals with the National leaders who Published them: (a) Abul Kalam Azad (b) Pheroze Shah Mehta (c) Mrs. Annie Besant (d) M. K. Gandhi; (i) Bombay Chronicle (ii) Al Hilal (iii) Young India (iv) New India
- a)a-ii, b-i, c-iv, d-iii
- b)a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv
- c)a-ii, b-i, c-iii, d-iv
- d)a-iii, b-ii, c-i, d-iv
- Q89.Freedom Struggle
Arrange the following events in the correct chronological order: I. Bombing on Lord Hardinge II. Transfer of capital from Calcutta to Delhi (1911) III. Outbreak of the First World War (1914) IV. Gandhiji's arrival in India (1915)
- a)II I IV III
- b)I II III IV
- c)III I II IV
- d)II I III IV
- Q90.Freedom Struggle
Match the founders of the following revolutionary organisations: (a) Anushilan Samiti (b) Abhinava Bharata (c) Ghadar Party (d) Hindustan Socialist Republican Army; (i) V. D. Savarkar (ii) Barindra Kumar Ghosh (iii) Lala Hardayal (iv) Sachindra Nath Sunyal and Bhagat Singh
- a)a-ii, b-i, c-iii, d-iv
- b)a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv
- c)a-ii, b-iii, c-i, d-iv
- d)a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i
- Q91.Freedom Struggle
Match the epithets of the following National Leaders: (a) B. G. Tilak (b) Andrews (c) Madan Mohan Malviya (d) Lala Lajpat Rai; (i) Lokmanya (ii) Dinabandhu (iii) Mahamana (iv) Punjab Kesari
- a)a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv
- b)a-ii, b-i, c-iii, d-iv
- c)a-iii, b-i, c-ii, d-iv
- d)a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i
- Q92.Freedom Struggle
Which of the following was not the result of the Home Rule movement of Tilak and Besant?
- a)The I. N. C. and the Muslim League both thought of starting a passive Resistance' movement.
- b)The Home Rule campaign virtually ousted the moderates from the political field.
- c)The I. N. C. became the 'Congress of Tilak and Besant'.
- d)The movement generated a cultural awakening in India.
- Q93.Freedom Struggle
Jatin Das, who died (September 13, 1929) after a long hunger strike in the prison, had been arrested in connection with:
- a)Murder of Saunders
- b)Throwing of bombs in the Assembly at Delhi
- c)Lahore Conspiracy case
- d)Meerut Conspiracy case
- Q94.Freedom Struggle
Who is regarded as 'the Mother of Indian Revolution'?
- a)Mrs. Annie Besant
- b)Snehlata Wadkar
- c)Sarojini Naidu
- d)Madam Bhikaiji Rustom Cama
- Q95.Freedom Struggle
The President of the Lahore Session of the I.N.C. (December 1929) which passed the Purna Swaraj resolution was:
- a)Motilal Nehru
- b)Jawaharlal Nehru
- c)Srinivas Ayengar
- d)Subhas Chandra Bose
- Q96.Freedom Struggle
The famous 'Purna Swaraj Declaration', which says: "We hold it to be a crime against man and God to submit any longer to a rule that has caused this fourfold disaster to our country", was prepared by:
- a)Jawaharlal Nehru
- b)M.K. Gandhi
- c)Motilal Nehru
- d)All of the above
- Q97.Freedom Struggle
The greatest merit of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact was that:
- a)The I.N.C. agreed to join the Second Round Table Conference.
- b)For the first time the I.N.C. was treated on a footing of equality as a political opponent.
- c)Gandhi, the 'half naked Fakir', ascended the staircase of the Viceregal Lodge.
- d)The I.N.C. gained a status and authority to speak for political India.
- Q98.Freedom Struggle
Opposition to the Gandhi-Irwin pact was mainly:
- a)because of the execution of Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru.
- b)because the I.N.C. reneged the Purna Swarajya pledge.
- c)because of suspension of the Civil Disobedience Movement.
- d)because the Pact was a self delusion.
- Q99.Freedom Struggle
After the Gaya Session of the I.N.C. in December 1892 a new party was formed by Motilal Nehru and C.R. Das. Its name was:
- a)National Liberal Party
- b)The Congress Khilafat Swarajya Party
- c)Swarajya Party
- d)Swarajya Congress Party
- Q100.Freedom Struggle
The Meerut Conspiracy Case, in which 27 accused persons were defended by Jawaharlal Nehru and K.N. Katju, related to the members of the:
- a)Ghadar Party
- b)Hindu Mahasabha
- c)Indian National Congress
- d)Communist Party of India
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