Indian Nationalism

Question 1

when was the Indian National Congress Founded?

Answer 1

1885

Question 2

When was the Muslim League Founded?

Answer 2

1906

Question 3

Where did Indian Nationalism begin?

Answer 3

In Bombay, Madras, and Bengali under the crown rule in Bombay, Madras, and Bengali under the crown rule

Question 4

Why nationalism spread among Indians?

Answer 4

Reaction to colonial rule and failure of the British to achieve their promise which is to free India through reforms.

Question 5

Purpose of Indian National Congress and Muslim League?

Answer 5

To liberate their people and instill democratic ideals in which they cooperated.

Question 6

When was the university of Bombay, Madras, and Bengali founded?

Answer 6

1857

Question 7

How did Indians students attempt to emulate their mentors that instilled democracy to them?

Answer 7

By joining the Indian Civil Service

Question 8

Indian Civil Service

Answer 8

Organization that governed India under British rule

Question 9

Which people inspired Indian Nationalism?

Answer 9

Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Macaulay,

Question 10

Who was discharged from ICS and became an active Nationalist? He also founded the Indian Association in Calcutta and conveyed the first Indian National Conference.

Answer 10

Surendranath Banerjea (1848–1925)

Question 11

When was the first Indian National Conference conveyed?

Answer 11

1883

Question 12

When was the partition of Bengal?

Answer 12

1905

Question 13

what movement did Banerjea start?

Answer 13

swadeshi movement

Question 14

What did the movement do?

Answer 14

promoting Indian-made goods, and the movement to boycott British manufactured goods.

Question 15

who founded the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha (Poona Public Society)?

Answer 15

Mahadev Govind Ranade(1842–1901)

Question 16

Previous name of University of Mumbai?

Answer 16

University of Bombay

Question 17

Who did Mahadev Govind Ranade helped?

Answer 17

Prarthana Samaj (Prayer Society)

Question 18

At What school did Ranade taught and what journal he wrote for?

Answer 18

Elphinstone College and Indu Prakash

Question 19

Who is Ranade’s disciple?

Answer 19

Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866–1915)

Question 20

At which school did he taught?

Answer 20

Fergusson College in Poona

Question 21

Who is the first president of Indian National Congress?

Answer 21

Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866–1915)

Question 22

Who is the leader of Indian revolutionary action?

Answer 22

Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920)

Question 23

Epithet of Tilak

Answer 23

The Lokamanya (“Revered by the People”)

Question 24

He was jailed in 1897 for seditious writing on Maratha History and orthodox Hinduism.

Answer 24

Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920)

Question 25

Tilak saw the importance of Pre-British Hindu culture, which festivals did he popularize?

Answer 25

Ganesha (Ganapati) and Shivaji festivals

Question 26

What is Tilak's goal?

Answer 26

swaraj or Self-rule

Question 27

Who prepared nationalism for India?

Answer 27

Lytton and Lord Ripon (governed 1880–84)

Question 28

Who helped the Indian National Congress?

Answer 28

Allan Octavian Hume (1829–1912)

Question 29

When did Hume join theosipical foundation?

Answer 29

1881

Question 30

Who founded the Theosophical Society and when did the person found it?

Answer 30

Helena Blavatsky (1831–91) 1875

Question 31

Who founded the Society of Aryans ( Arya Samaj) in 1875?

Answer 31

Dayananda Sarasvati (1824–83)

Question 32

What does Dayananda Sarasvati (1824–83) believe in?

Answer 32

reject the “corrupting” excrescences of their faith, including idolatry, the caste system, and infant marriage, and to return to the original purity of Vedic life and thought.

Question 33

Who succeeded Blavatsky and the only woman to serve as a president in the Indian National Congress?

Answer 33

Annie Besant (1847–1933)

Question 34

When did she (Annie Besant (1847–1933)) serve as President?

Answer 34

1907

Question 35

When was the First Congress Party Session

Answer 35

December 28, 1885

Question 36

How many delegates are in the meeting?

Answer 36

73 (54 Brahman Hindus, 2 Muslims, remaining are Parsi and Jains) Half are lawyers while the remaining are journalists, businessmen, landowners, and professors

Question 37

Grand Old man of Congress that served 3 terms as the President.

Answer 37

Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917)

Question 38

He argued that India's poverty is from the plunder of Britain and the Third Anglo-Burmese war.

Answer 38

Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917)

Question 39

Ex of Petition in the First Congress meeting.

Answer 39

Among those initial resolutions were calls for the addition of elected nonofficial representatives to the supreme and provincial legislative councils and for real equality of opportunity for Indians to enter the ICS by the immediate introduction of simultaneous examinations in India and Britain.

Question 40

Gokhale's adviser who served as a President for the Congress

Answer 40

Sir William Wedderburn (1838–1918)

Question 41

How many delegates did they gain after 2 years?

Answer 41

600

Question 42

Despite 1248 delegates, who called the Congress microscopic?

Answer 42

Viceroy Dufferin

Question 43

Who unintentionally helped making the Congress popular by criticizing it?

Answer 43

Viceroy Curzon

Question 44

When was the partition of Bengal?

Answer 44

1905

Question 45

Reason for Partition of Bengal

Answer 45

Huge population of Bengal, and to prevent rebellion. The Politically active orgs are placed in lesser active areas making them weaker.

Question 46

What did the Congress in the partition?

Answer 46

a Divide and rule strategy because of dislikes towards intellectual bengalis.

Question 47

Which Hindus are less politically active?

Answer 47

Bihar- and Oriya- speaking Hindus

Question 48

Respectable, gentle folk

Answer 48

bhadralok

Question 48

western Bengal bhadralok are tied to which group of Hindus

Answer 48

Bihar- and Oriya- speaking Hindus

Question 49

What is the capital of Assam and Eastern Bengal?

Answer 49

Dhaka (Dacca)

Question 50

Date of Partition of Bengal

Answer 50

October 16, 1905

Question 51

Why there are mass protests concerning the partition?

Answer 51

Mother-goddess-worshipping Bengali Hindus believed that partition was nothing less than the vivisection of their “mother province,”

Question 52

The new tide of national sentiment born in Bengal rose to inundate India in every direction, that became the congress's National Anthem.

Answer 52

“Bande Mataram” (“Hail to Thee Mother”)

Question 53

Which book is the “Bande Mataram” (“Hail to Thee Mother”) based and who is its composer?

Answer 53

Anandamath, a popular Bengali novel by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, and composed by Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)

Question 54

Reaction of Bengali to Partition

Answer 54

. Such bonfires, re-creating ancient Vedic sacrificial altars, aroused Hindus in Poona, Madras, and Bombay to light similar political pyres of protest.

Question 55

Indians vow to use domestic fabric called _________ instead of foreign made cloth

Answer 55

(swadeshi)

Question 56

The swadeshi movement was followed by _________________

Answer 56

popularization of indigenous enterprise in many fields, from Indian cotton mills to match factories, glassblowing shops, and iron and steel foundries.

Question 57

Indian jesuits

Answer 57

Vishnu Krishna Chiplunkar (1850–82), Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (1856–95),

Question 58

What did Vishnu Krishna Chiplunkar (1850–82), Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (1856–95), do?

Answer 58

boycott English schools

Question 59

What spread to entire India after the actions of Vishnu Krishna Chiplunkar (1850–82), Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (1856–95),?

Answer 59

National Education movement

Question 60

Who found Baranas Hindu University in 1910?

Answer 60

Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861–1946)

Question 61

One of the last major demands to be added to the platform of the Congress Party in the wake of Bengal’s first partition that became the popular mantra of Indian Nationalism

Answer 61

swaraj(self-rule)

Question 62

Who did the presidential address in Calcutta in 1906 concerning self rule?

Answer 62

Dadabhai Naoroji

Question 63

Where is the first meeting of Muslim League?

Answer 63

Dacca

Question 64

When was Delhi sultanate found?

Answer 64

1206

Question 65

Last Mughal Emperors serve as a rallying symbol for rebels

Question 66

India’s greatest 19th-century Muslim leader, succeeded, in his Causes of the Indian Revolt (1873), in convincing many British officials that Hindus were primarily to blame for the mutiny.

Answer 66

Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817–98)

Question 67

ayyid had entered the company’s service in

Answer 67

1838

Question 68

He visited Oxford in 1874 and returned to found the _________. It was India’s first centre of Islamic and Western higher education

Answer 68

Anglo-Muhammadan Oriental College (now Aligarh Muslim University) at Aligarh in 1875

Question 69

became the intellectual cradle of the Muslim League and Pakistan.

Answer 69

Aligarch

Question 70

popularly known by his title Mohsin al-Mulk, had succeeded Sayyid Ahmad as leader and convened a deputation of some 36 Muslim leaders,

Answer 70

Sayyid Mahdi Ali (1837–1907),

Question 71

that in 1906 called on Lord Minto (viceroy from 1905–10) to articulate the special national interests of India’s Muslim community.

Answer 71

Aga Khan III,

Question 72

promised that any reforms enacted by his government would safeguard the separate interests of the Muslim community. Separate Muslim electorates, formally inaugurated by the Indian Councils Act of 1909,

Answer 72

Minto

Question 73

were thus vouchsafed by viceregal fiat in

Answer 73

1906

Question 74

What did the Muslim League support?

Answer 74

“to protect and advance the political rights and interests of Mussalmans of India.” Other resolutions moved at its first meeting expressed Muslim “loyalty to the British government,” support for the Bengal partition, and condemnation of the boycott movement.