Modern History

Question 1

Who started Indian Home Rule Society- ‘India House’ in London in 1905

Answer 1

Shyamji Krishna Verma

Question 2

Who started journal- The Indian Sociologist?

Answer 2

Shyamji Krishna Verma

Question 3

India for the Indians- Slogan was said by

Answer 3

Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Question 4

Sudesha Geetham was written by

Answer 4

Subramania Bharati (Tamil Nadu)

Question 5

Newspapers- New India and Commonweal were published by

Answer 5

Annie Besant

Question 6

Who renounced his knighthood in protest against the arrest or internment of Annie Besant and her associates BP Wadia and George Arundale in 1917?

Answer 6

Sir S Subramaniya Aiyar

Question 7

Indian Home Rule League was founded in April 1916 by

Answer 7

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

HQ at Poona; Restricted to Maharashtra (excluding Bombay city), Karnataka, Central Provinces and Berar

Six branches

Demands:
1. Swarajya
2. Formation of Linguistic States
3. Education in vernacular

Question 8

All-India Home Rule League was set up in September 1916 in Madras by

Answer 8

Annie Besant

Covered rest of India (including Bombay city)

200 branches; loosely organised as compared to Tilak’s league

Question 9

Who founded Natal Indian Congress

Answer 9

Mahatma Gandhi (1894, in South Africa)

Question 10

Who started a paper- Indian Opinion?

Answer 10

Mahatma Gandhi

Question 11

The Servants of India Society was founded by …… in 1905

Answer 11

Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866-1915) with the help of MG Ranade

Aim:
1. To train national missionaries for the service of India
2. To promote by all constitutional means, the interests of Indian people
3. To prepare a cadre of selfless workers

In 1911, the Hitavada began to be published to project the views of the society

Question 12

He wrote for a weekly Prabhakar under the pen name of Lokahitawadi

Answer 12

Gopal Hari Deshmukh (1823-1892)

Started a weekly, Hitechhu

Question 13

The Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was founded by

Answer 13

Mahadeo Govind Ranade in 1867

Aim: To serve as a bridge between the government and the people

Question 14

Who gave up the title of Kaiser-i-Hind, bestowed by British for his work during the Boer War in protest against Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

Answer 14

Mahatma Gandhi

Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood in protest

Question 15

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place on

Answer 15

April 13, 1919

Question 16

Rowlatt Satyagraha was launched on

Answer 16

April 6, 1919

Question 17

Two nationalist leaders arrested on April 9, 1919- four days before Jallianwala Bagh Massacre were

Answer 17

Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr Satyapal

Question 18

Rowlatt Act was officially known as

Answer 18

The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act, 1919

Passed in March, 1919

Passed on the recommendation of Rowlatt Commission, 1918 (headed by British Judge- Sir Sidney Rowlatt)

Question 19

Overwhelmed by the atmosphere of total violence, Gandhi withdrew Rowlatt Satyagraha on

Answer 19

April 18, 1919

Question 20

Udham Singh killed whom in 1940?

Answer 20

Michael O’Dwyer

(Lieutenant Governor, Punjab- presided over brutal British suppression of 1919 protests in Punjab)

Udham Singh was hanged in 1940; Bore the name- Ram Mohammad Singh Azad
His ashes were returned to India in 1974

Question 21

Chauri Chaura Incident took place on

Answer 21

February 5, 1922

Chauri Chaura- a village in Gorakhpur district in United Provinces

Question 22

Constituent Assembly first meeting

Answer 22

December 9, 1946

Question 23

Mountbatten Plan was released on

Answer 23

June 3, 1947

Question 24

Indian Independence Act was passed by British Parliament on

Answer 24

July 5, 1947