Challenges of Nation Building

Question 1

Who founded INC and when

Answer 1

Allan Octavian Hume, 28th December 1885

Question 2

First President of INC

Answer 2

W.B. Banerjee

Question 3

Current president of INC

Answer 3

Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge

Question 4

1st phase of Indian Independence movement

Answer 4

Moderate Phase- 1906, PPP- Petition, Prayer and Protest

Question 5

Surat Split

Answer 5

The splitting of the Congress into Moderates and the Radicals in the Surat session of 1907

Question 6

President of the Surat Split

Answer 6

Rash Behari Bose

Question 7

Extremist Phase

Answer 7

1907-1940

Question 8

Gandhian Phase

Answer 8

1940-1947

Question 9

Originally decided date for freedom

Answer 9

June 1948

Question 10

Originally decided date for freedom

Answer 10

June 1948

Question 11

Freedom at midnight

Answer 11

Larry colins and Domic Lapiere

Question 12

Gandhi was killed

Answer 12

30th January 1948 on his way to Birla Temple, Delhi

Question 13

Sare Jahan se accha was written by

Answer 13

Allama Muhammad Iqbal

Question 14

National song of India and who wrote it

Answer 14

Vande Matiram by Bankimchandra Chatterji

Question 15

National song of India and who wrote it

Answer 15

Vande Matiram by Bankimchandra Chatterji

Question 16

King during India’s Independence

Answer 16

King George VI

Question 17

INC president during Independence

Answer 17

J P Kripilani

Question 18

Khan Abul Ghaffar Khan

Answer 18

1. Frontier Gandhi
2. Leader of the NWFP- North West Frontier Province
3. Founded Khudai Khidmatgar or the red shirts

Question 19

When did Gandhi preside over a INC meeting

Answer 19

Belgaum, 1924 an dhe resigned in 1934

Question 20

Bharat Ratna

Answer 20

First Bharat Ratna was awarded to Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Sir C.V. Raman, and Chakravarti Rajagopalachari in 1954. Sachin Tendulkar is the first sportsperson and the youngest Bharat Ratna Award, the recipient. The first woman was Indira Gandhi.

Question 21

National Education 2. INDIAN NATIONALISM 3. Economic Conquest of India 4. Gandhi, Gandhism and Socialism were written by whom? (The first official historian of the congress)
Also the INC president in 1939.

Answer 21

Pattabi Sitaramayya

Question 22

First speaker of Lok Sabha

Answer 22

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar

Question 23

First speaker of Lok Sabha

Answer 23

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar

Question 24

First and second language committee

Answer 24

1948- Linguistic Provinces Commission headed by S.K.Dhar
2. 1948- JVP committee- Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallahbhai Patel and Pattabi Sitaramayya

Question 25

First woman speaker of lok sabha

Answer 25

Meira Kumar

Question 26

Head of the The States Reorganisation Commission

Answer 26

Fazal Ali

Question 27

Maharashtra and Gujarat

Answer 27

1960

Question 28

Nagaland

Answer 28

1963

Question 29

Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh

Answer 29

1966

Question 30

Meghalaya (carved out of Assam), Manipur and Tripura

Answer 30

1972

Question 31

Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh

Answer 31

1987

Question 32

Chattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand (based on culture)

Answer 32

2000

Question 33

Recent movements

Answer 33

Vidarbha in Maharashtra
Harit Pradesh in Uttar Pradesh and the northern area of West Bengal