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Q1. "Moderate Politics" was gaining a systematic criticism in the 1890s in the regions of ......
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Q2. For what reason the public meeting was held on 13th April 1919 in Jalianwala Bagh, Amritsar which ultimately ended in massacre?
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Q3. Aggrieved over which event below, Gandhiji founded the Satyagraha movement in 1919?
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Q4. Who among the following muslim leaders became the president of INC for the first time?
Correct answer : 2
Q5. Which Indian communist leader among the following played a key role in the world communist movement?
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Q6. Where did Gandhiji start the 'satyagraha' for the first time?
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Q7. Which legislation of the British, for the first time gave representation for Indians in the legislature?
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Q8. Who was the Viceroy of India, during the visit of King George V?
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Q9. At which session of the Indian National Congress, Quit India Movement was adopted?
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Q10. Which of the following statements about Quit India movement is wrong?
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Q11. Which factor below mentioned did not directly contribute to the grant of independence for India?
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Q12. Who was that close adjutant of Gandhiji who was asked to try for the first time his specific technique of controlled mass struggle in a native state during 1939?
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Q13. Who quoted Gandhiji as a 'seditious fakir" and strongly objected the British governement negotiating on equal terms, in February-March 1931?
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Q14. Which of the following statements regarding Md.Ali Jinnah is wrong?
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Q15. For what reason Gandhiji began a fast unto death in Yeravada Jail on September 1932?
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Q16. When did Muslim League adopt "self government" as one of its objectives?
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Q17. Who was the President of the Indian National Congress at the time of the Moderate-Extremist split?
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Q18. Who among the following muslim leaders was elected as the Permanent President of the Muslim League in 1908?
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Q19. Some of the militant nationalism regions down to 1907 to 1919 are given below. Pick the odd one out where such base did not exist. Punjab Gujarat Bengal Maharashtra
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Q20. Who gave the slogan " do or die " which turned out to be the most powerful slogan during the freedom movement?
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Q21. Arrange the following events in the chronological order: (A)Jinnah's wrecking of the Simla Conference (B)the arrival of the Cabinet Mission (C )Muslim League launching'direct action' ( D) formation of an interim government
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Q22. The aim of the Cabinet Mission sent to India was ..... (A) to accept to the Jinnah's demand for Pakistan and work out on it (B) to establish a national government (C ) to work out a constitutional arrangement for the transfer of power (D) none of them
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Q23. Stafford Cripps, who headed the Cripps Mission, belonged to which of the political party in UK?
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Q24. The most enduring as well as the most militant of the agitations originating during 1945-1947 was the .....
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Q25. Among the following who persuaded the Royal Indian Navy ratings to surrender on 23rd February 1946? (A)Md. Ali Jinnah (B) Subash Chandra Bose (C)Vallabh Bhai Patel (D)Jawaharlal Nehru
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Q26. Royal Indian Navy ratings went on a strike on 18th February 1946 and raised which of the following flags?
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Q27. Among the following statements which one is wrong?
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Q28. Nethaji Subash Chandra Bose was unhappy with the March 1940 Ramgarh Congress resolutions because......
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Q29. In which year did the Individual Satyagraha begin?
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Q30. Who inaugurated the Individual Satyagraha on 17th October 1940?
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Q31. Who among the following was the only one to attend all the three round table conferences held in London?
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Q32. Who was the leader of the Yugantar Party which aimed at preserving its resources and establishing international contacts to organize a real military conspiracy at a proper time?
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Q33. What are the twin principles of Gandhi's " Ram Rajya"?
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Q34. In which year Subash Chandra Bose resigned from the Presidentship of the Congress?
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Q35. The Ghadar Party functioned with headquarters at.....
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Q36. Among the following who was the Viceroy to be assassinated in India?
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Q37. Arrange the following in the chronological order? A)First Round Table Conference B)Gandhi Irwin Pact C)Communal Award D)Simon Commission
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Q38. In 1939 the Congress ministries resigned and Md.Ali Jinnah celebrated this day as "day of deliverance". On what date it was observed so?
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Q39. Who looked upon the 'Khilafat Agitation' as "an opportunity for uniting the Hindus and Muslims as would not arise in a hundred years"?
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Q40. Who was the Viceroy when the 'Rowlatt Act' was passed?
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Q41. Among the following who played an important role in bringing together the Muslim League and the Congress in 1916?
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Q42. Who among the following Muslim Scholars of the Deoband School held the view that there was no conflict between Muslims and nationalism?
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Q43. The ideologies of the 'Ahrar' movement was....
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Q44. In which year the Congress adopted the principle that it would not take up any proposal which would harm the Muslims, by a majority of the Muslim delegates in the Congress?
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Q45. "We will not achieve any success in our labours if we croak once a year like a frog". Whose quote is this?
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Q46. "New Lamps for Old" was a series of articles during 1893-94 criticising the moderate politics written by......
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Q47. Who started the Muhammedan Anglo-oriental Defence Association in 1893?
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Q48. Which of the following nationalist leaders raised the demand for 'swarajya' or 'self government' within the British Empire, from the Congress platform in 1905? (a) Dadabhai Nauroji (b) Pherozeshah Mehta (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (d) Gopalakrishna Gokhale
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Q49. The 1890 Congress session was addressed by the first woman graduate of the Calcutta University. Who was she?
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Q50. Indian Association of Calcutta was the most important pre-Congress nationalist organisation, founded by S.N.Banerji and Anand Mohan Bose. When was it founded?