History - Modern India

Question 1

The viceroy during the Quit India Movement [1942].

Answer 1

Lord Linlithgow

Question 2

First governor-general of free India

Answer 2

Lord Mountbatten

Question 3

____ founded the Brahmo Samaj

Answer 3

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Question 4

____ founded the Arya Samaj

Answer 4

Swami Dayanand Saraswati

• also known as the earliest Neo-nationalist
• motto: go back to the Vedas and India for the Indians

Question 5

Arya Samaj started the ___ to convert non-Hindus to Hinduism

Answer 5

Shuddhi Movement

Question 6

_____ was started by Swami Vivekananda after the death of his guru to carry on humanitarian and relief work.

Answer 6

Ramakrishna Mission

• popularised by Margaret Noble after his death

Question 7

____ led Dharma Sabha which was created to counter the Brahmo Samaj.

Answer 7

Raja Radhakant Dev

Question 8

____ was called the Brahmo Samaj of the South

Answer 8

Veda Samaj

• by Sridharalu Naidu

Question 9

Founder of the Young Bengal Movement.

Answer 9

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

• editor of Calcutta and Indian Gazette

Question 10

Founder of the Theosophical Society

Answer 10

Madam Blavatsky & Olcott

Theosophical Society of India was founded by Annie Besant

Question 11

This caste movement in Maharashtra started a school for untouchables.

Answer 11

Satya Shodhak Samaj

Question 12

First meeting of the Indian National Congress was organized by ____.

Answer 12

AO Hume

• at Gokuldas Sanskrit College

Question 13

First woman graduate of Calcutta University who addressed the Congress Session.

Answer 13

Kadambini Ganguly

Question 14

1st president of the INC in 1885

Answer 14

WC Bonnerjee

• Gandhi became president in 1924

Question 15

Examples of extremist leader during freedom struggle

Answer 15

Lal-Bal-Pal, Aurobindo Ghose, Chidambaram Pillai

Question 16

____ ordered the Partition of Bengal

Answer 16

Lord Curzon

• 16th Oct, 1905
• to divide population of Bengal based on religious grounds

Question 17

Tagore composed ___ during partition of Bengal.

Answer 17

Amar Sonar Bangla

• adopted as National Anthem by Bangladesh after liberation from Pakistan

Question 18

Swadeshi movement emphasised on ___.

Answer 18

Atmashakti / self-reliance

Question 19

____ & ____ led the Vandemataram movement in the South.

Answer 19

BC Pal & Chidambaram Pillai

Question 20

____ & ____ led the Vandemataram movement in the North.

Answer 20

Lala Lajpat Rai & Ajit Singh

Question 21

Leaders of the Muslim League

Answer 21

Aga Khan
Nawab Salimullah
Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk

• set up in 1906

Question 22

This president of the INC session declared for Swaraj.

Answer 22

Dadabhai Naoroji

Question 23

When was the Surat split

Answer 23

1907

• INC split into moderates and extremists

Question 24

The first systematic critique of the moderates was by ____.

Answer 24

Aurobindo in his ‘New lamps for old’ in the Indu Prakash

Question 25

Indian Councils Act of 1909 is also called ____.

Answer 25

Morley-Minto Reforms

Question 26

Tilak served a sentence for 6 years in ____.

Answer 26

Mandalay

Question 27

____ said 'Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it'.

Answer 27

Tilak - he had 2 newspapers: Maratha & Kesari

Question 28

____ coined the term 'commonwealth'.

Answer 28

Annie Besant

Question 29

____ session was the first that united the extremists and moderates in the INC.

Answer 29

Lucknow session, 1916

Question 30

Year of Rowlatt Act

Answer 30

1919 - authorised the government to arrest anyone without trial

Question 31

Gandhi returned to India in ___.

Answer 31

Jan, 1915

Question 32

First Satyagraha movement led by Gandhi in India

Answer 32

Champaran Satyagraha, 1917 - 1st civil disobedience movement

Question 33

First hunger strike during freedom struggle

Answer 33

Ahmedabad Mill Strike, 1918

Question 34

First non-cooperation movement during freedom struggle

Answer 34

Kheda Satyagraha, 1918

Question 35

____ was appointed to inquire into the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, 13 April 1919

Answer 35

Hunter Commission

Question 36

First mass based political movement under Gandhi

Answer 36

Non-Cooperation Movement

Question 37

Non-Cooperation Movement saw the popularization of these two commodities.

Answer 37

Charkha & Khadi

Question 38

The police station that was attacked on 5th Feb, 1922 was in ____.

Answer 38

Chauri Chaura

Question 39

____ movement began for the reformation and control of Gurudwaras.

Answer 39

Akali Movement

Question 40

___ & ____ founded the Independent Congress Party

Answer 40

Madan Mohan Malaviya & Lala Lajpat Rai

Question 41

Simon Commission was also known as:

Answer 41

Indian Statutory Commission, 1927