PERSONALITIES ASSOCIATED WITH SPECIFIC MOVEMENTS Flashcards
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_______ opened stores and headed the Swadeshi Wastu Pracharini Sabha.
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Lokmanya Tilak.
2
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His articles, which were published in kayastha Samachar, endorsed technical education and industrial self sufficiency?
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Lala Lajpat Rai.
3
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Syed Haider Raza popularized the Swadeshi Movement in _______.
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Delhi.
4
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_______ spread the Swadeshi movement to Madras and organised the strike of the Tuticorin Coral Mill. He founded the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in Tuticorin on the east coast of the Madras Province.
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Chidambaram Pillai.
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______ of the Extremist clan played a major role in popularizing the Swadeshi Movement, especially in the urban areas. He was the editor of New India.
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Bipin Chandra Pal.
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______ of Patna suggested boycott and organised the East Indian Railway strike in 1906 during Swadeshi Movement.
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Laikat Hossain.
7
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Shyamsunder Chakrabarti role in Swadeshi Movement?
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Helped in organising strikes.
8
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Who called for the observance of arandhan (keeping the hearth unlit) as a mark of mourning and protest on the day the partition was put into effect (regarding Swadeshi Movement)?
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Ramendra Sunder Trivedi.
9
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He set up some swadeshi stores and called for the observance of raksha bandhan (tying of threads on each other’s wrists as a sign of brotherhood during Swadeshi Movement?
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Rabindranath Tagore.
10
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_______ was appointed as the principal of Bengal National College founded in 1906 to encourage patriotic thinking and an education system related to Indian conditions and culture.
He was also the editor of Bande Mataram and through his editorials encouraged strikes, national education etc., in the spirit of the Swadeshi Movement.
He was assisted by Krishnakumar Mitra and Narendra Kumar Sen.
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Aurobindo Ghosh.
11
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_________, a school teacher, set up Swadesh Bandhab Samiti to propagate the Swadeshi Movement and led the Muslim peasants of Barisal in their protests.
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Ashwini Kumar Dutt.
12
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______, a zamidar and a lawyer, set up swadeshi industries and helped Aurobindo Ghosh to extend revolutionary activities outside Bengal. He was assisted by Abul Kalam Azad.
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Abdul Halim Guznavi.
13
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_______, in order to promote Swadeshi, set up the Bengal Chemicals factory.
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Acharya P.C. Roy.
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- Mukunda Das, Rajanikanta Sen, Dwijendralal Roy, Girindramohini Dosi, Sayed Abu Mohammed composed patriotic songs on swadeshi themes.
- Girishchandra Ghosh, Kshiroprasad Vidyavinode and Amritlal Bose were play wrights who contributed to the swadeshi spirit through their creative efforts.
True/false?
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- True
- True.
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_______, a swadeshi activist, led the jute mill workers to form an Indian Millhands Union at Budge Budge in August 1906?
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Ashwinin Coomar Banerjee.
16
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__________ through his Dawn Society promoted an education system under indigenous control during Swadeshi Movement.
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Satish Chandra Mukherji.
17
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______ of the Amrita Bazar Patrika group contributed several fiery articles in the paper to arouse patriotic sentiments and was in favour of Extremism during Swadeshi Movement.
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Motilal Ghosh.
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________ through his Sandhya and Yugantar (brought out by a group associated with Barindrakumar Ghosh) popularized swaraj and the Swadeshi Movement.
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Brahmabandhab Upadhay.
19
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_________ set up an association in March 1904 to raise funds to facilitate students to go abroad for technical and industrial training.
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Jogendrachandra.
20
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________, a zamidar from Kasimbazar, patronised several indigenous industries during Swadeshi Movement.
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Manindra Nandi.
21
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________ brought out several pamphlets on Swadeshi Movement and argued that a new kind of business class should be built to promote national interests.
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Kalisankar Sukul.
22
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________, a student from UP, was drawn towards terrorism during Swadeshi Movement.
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Sunder Lal.
23
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_______ &________ began organisational work through the Patidar Yuvak Madal during Swadeshi Movement.
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Kunwarji Mehta and Kalyanji Mehta.
24
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________ promoted Swadeshi Movement in Punjab through the Brahmo learning group which began the Tribune newspaper. He also founded the Punjab National Bank.
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Lala Harkrishan Lal.
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______&_______ were the leaders of a Muslim group in Punjab involved in consecutive swadeshi, rather than boycott.
Muhammad Shafi and Fazal-i-Husain.
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_______ headed the Mylapore group in the Madras Presidency during Swadeshi Movement.
V Krishnaswami Iyer. G. Subramaniya Iyer, T. Prakasam and M. Krishna Rao were other leaders in the south but were opposed to V.K. Iyer.
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______&______ started kistnaptrika in Masulipatanm in 1904.
Prakasam and Krishna Rao.
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_______, a member of the Tamilian revolutionary group and an eminent poet, played a significant role in arousing nationalism in the Tamil areas.
Subramaniya Bharati.
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Prabhatkusum Roy Chaudhuri, Athanashis Apurba Kumar Ghosh were lawyers who helped in organising labour; Premtosh Bose was another pioneer labour leader during which movement?
Swadeshi Movement.
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________ was one of the first revolutionary leaders, and after his return from Paris (he had gone there to get military training), a combined bomb factory and religious school was set up in Calcutta.
Hemachandra Kanungo.
31
_____ &_______, two revolutionaries, murdered Kennedy on April 30, 1908 during Swadeshi Movement.
Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki.
32
_______ organized the Deccan Anushilan, with the Barrah Dacoities as its major venture during Swadeshi Movement.
Pulin Das.
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Sachindranath Sanyal emerged as a revolutionary leader in Benares through contacts with __________ (the editor of Sandhya after the death of Brahmabandhab). (Swadeshi Movement).
Mokhodacharan Samadhyay.
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_______ brothers founded the Mitra Mela in 1899 and were directly involved in extremist in Maharashtra. (Swadeshi Movement).
The Savarkar brothers.
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_______ persuaded Mill owners in Maharashtra to sell dhotis at moderate prices during Swadeshi Movement.
Dinshaw Wacha.
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_______ moved the main resolution on non cooperation in the annual session of the Congress in Nagpur in 1920 and played a major role in promoting the movement. A successful lawyer,he boycotted the law courts and gave up a lucrative practice. His three subordinates and supporters,________ in Midnapore, _________ in Chitagong and _______ in Calcutta played a major role in uniting the Hindus and Muslims.
- Chittaranjan Das
- Birendranath Samsal in Midnapore
- J.M.Sengupta in Chittagong
- Subhash Bose in Calcutta.
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_______ carried on the non-cooperation propaganda and encouraged the formation of kisan sabhas to take up the cause of the peasants exploited by government policies. He was against Gandhi's decision to withdraw the movement.
Jawaharlal Nehru.
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_________, a Bengali nationalist leader, supported the labourers on tea plantations in Assam in their protest and strike during non cooperation movement.
J.M. Sengupta.
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_______, wife of C.R. Das was one of the first women volunteers to court arrest in 1921.
Basanti Debi.
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________ organised the anti-union board agitation in the Contai and Tamluk sub division of Midnapore. In November-December 1921, he initiated a no tax movement among the Mahishya substantial tenantry of Midnapore.
Birendranath Samsal.
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________ organised the peasants in 1921-22 to resist settlement operations in Bogra, Pabna and Birbhum.
Jatindranath Banerji.
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______ supported the movement and resigned from the civil service. He was appointed the principal of the National College in Calcutta during Non-cooperation movement.
Subhash Chandra Bose.
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________ renounced his legal practice in response to the non cooperation call by Gandhi. He was arrested in 1921. Other notable lawyers who gave up their practices included M.R. Jayakar, Saifuddin Kitchlew, Vallabhbhai Patel, C.Rajagopalachari, T. Prakasam and Asaf Ali.
Motilal Nehru.
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________ was initially not in favour of the policy of non-cooperation (he was against the boycott of schools) but later he supported the movement. In fact he protested against its withdrawal in 1922.
Lala Lajpat Rai.
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______ actively supported the Gandhian movement (non cooperation movement) in Bihar.
Rajendra Prasad.
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_______ spread the non cooperation movement in Gujarat and regarded non cooperation as a feasible alternative revolutionary terrorism to fight against a colonial government.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
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_______ organised the Bhils and Bhil movement strengthened the non cooperation activities.
Motilal Tejawat.
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________ led the tribals in Andhra and combined their demands with those of the non cooperation movement.
Alluri Sitaram Raju.
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________, a Khilafat leader, condemned the arrest of the Ali brothers and demanded complete independence.
Hasrat Mohani.
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Purshottamdas Thakurdas, Jamnadas Dwarkadas, Cowasji Jehangir, Phroze and Setalvad, all of whom belonged to the industrialist secrion, launched an Anti Non Cooperation Association in _______.
1920.
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1. Kunhammad Haji, Kalathingal Mammad, Ali Musaliar, Sithi Koya Thangal and Imbechi Koya Thangal acted as presidents of the Khilafat Republics set up at number of places.
2. K. Madhavan Nair, U. Gopala Menon, Yakub Hasan and P. Moideen Koya were the Khilafat leaders and supporters of the Non Cooperation Movement. They were arrested in February 1921.
True/false?
1. True
2. True.
52
______, Khilafat agitator, organised the coal miners of the Raniganj-Jharia belt for the Non-cooperation Movement.
Muhammad Osman.
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_________ (supported by Ramjas Agarwala, a Marwari mine owner) and Swami Darsananand organised the coal miners of the Ranjiganj-Jharia belt for the Non Cooperation Movement.
Swami Vishwanand.
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_______&_______ called for no revenue movements and headed the Babbar Akali group, which emerged as a dissident of Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee, in 1921 in Jullundur and Hoshiarpur.
Kishan Singh and Mota Singh.
55
________, a supporter of Gandhi, was jailed for five years on charges of sedition in May 1921. He later became a critic of the Congress.
Swami Govindanand.
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Jairamadas Daulatram was a close associate of Gandhi and promoted the _______ Movement.
Non Cooperation.
57
S.A. Dange, R.S. Nimbarkar, V.D. Sathaye, R.V. Nadjarni, S.V. Deshpande and K.N. Joglekar were members of a radical student group and promoted the movement although they were not in line with Gandhi's views. They were influenced by________, a millionaire with a socialist learning.
R.B. Lotwalla.
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______, in April 1921, wrote Gandhi vs Lenin and was in favour of swaraj which would nationalise factories and distribute zamidari land among farmers.
S.A. Dange.
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_____ supported the labour uprising and strike at the Buckingham and Carnatic textile mills from July to October 1921.
Thiru Viru.
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______ was a lawyer and labour organiser in Madras and played a significant role in merging the labour and freedom movements. He was the first communist in south India and was in favour of using non violent non cooperation against 'capitalist autocracy'.
Singaravelu Chettiar.
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Konda Venkatappaya, A. Kaleswara Rao, T. Prakasam and Pattabhi Sitaramaya led the non cooperation movement in the ______ region.
Andhra.
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________ inspired the inhabitants of the small town of Chirala-Parala in Guntur district to resist the Government's plan to make the town a municipality and the hike in local taxes during Non Cooperation Movement.
Duggirala Gopalakrishnayya.
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______, an Assam Congress leader, favoured non cooperation but was against strikes in plantations, as he himself was a planter.
N.C. Bardoloi.
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'Assam Kesari'- poetry had a profound impact on the Assamese and helped in arousing nationalist spirit in them during non-cooperation movement. It is written by?
Ambikagiri Roy Chaudhari.
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_______ formed the pioneer communist group in Calcutta during non-cooperation movement. He was influenced by M.N. Roy and Nalini Gupta.
Muzaffar Ahmad.
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_______ a student in Calcutta, organised the peasants protesting against indigo cultivation on the Rajshaski-Nadia and Pabna Murshidabad border.
Someshwarprasad Chaudhuri.
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______,_______,_______&________ began their political careers in 1920-21, with the onset of the Non-cooperation Movement.
1. Purushottamdas Tandon
2. Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
3. Govind Ballabh Pant
4. Lal Bahadur Shastri.
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_______, a well known novelist, resigned his post in a Gorakhpur government school in February 1921 and started contributing to the journal *Aaj*.
Premchand.
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His novels Premasharam, Rangbhumi etc., reflect Gandhian principles and values and endorse non cooperation as an effective weapon to gain freedom?
Premchand.
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________ organised peasants revolt in south and south east Awadh and helped merge the peasants revolt with the Non Cooperation Movement. He was arrested in February 1921.
Baba Ramachandra.
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_______ announced himself 'King of Salon' and initiated no tax movement during non-cooperation movement.
A. Shah Naim Ata.
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______, a communist leader, was the editor of the communist journal Vanguard. He condemned the sessions court's sentence to death to 172 of the 225 accused in the Chauri Chaura incident (later, 19 were hanged and the rest transported) as against 22 policemen killed.
M.N. Roy.
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_______, an army pensioner in Gorakhpur village, was beaten up by the British police. The incident flared up nationalist sentiments in the village, which then led to the killing of 22 policemen in Chauri Chaura, by the peasants.
Bhagwan Ahir.
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_____ led the salt march from Trichinopoly to Vedaranniyam on the Tanjore coast in Tamil Nadu.
C. Rajagopalachari.
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_______ was actively involved in the movement and was arrested on April 17, 1930 for defiance of the salt law. He formulated a radical agrarian programme and suggested formation of the Constituent Assembly as the prime political slogan.
Jawaharlal Nehru.
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_______ defended the national flag and resisted lathicharge on the Calicut beach on November 11, 1930. He later founded the Kerela Communist Movement.
P. Krishna Pillai.
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Sarojini Naidu, the first Indian women to become the president of the Congress, was involved in a march towards the Dharasana Salt works, a government salt depot. Other leaders participated in this total non violent affair were _______, Gandhi's comrade of the South African struggle, and Manilal, Gandhi's son.
Imam Saheb.
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1. Surya Sen's Chittagong Revolt Group carried out a raid on two armouries and declared the establishment of a provisional government.
2. He issued a manifesto in the name of Indian Republic.
True/false?
1. True
2. True.
79
________, leader of the nationalist Muslims in Bombay, took the place of Gandhi in the Civil Disobedience Movement after the latter's arrest. However, he too was arrested by the Government.
Abbas Tayabji.
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______&_______ gave their cooperation to Motilal Nehru in removing the barriers between the Congress and the Bombay mill owners and industrialists. (Civil Disobedience Movement).
Ambalal Sarabhai and Kasturbhai Lankhai.
81
Industrialists who donated money during Civil Disobedience Movement?
1. G.D. Birla donated 5 lakh rupees.
2. Jamnalal Bajaj served as the AICC treasurer for several years and represented Gandhian leadership in Bombay.
3. Homi Modi
4. Walchand Hirachand
5. Lalji Naranji
6. Purushottamdas Thakurdas
7. Lala Sri Ram etc supported the movement in the first phase.
- But from September 1930, there was a sharp decline in support from the industrialists and traders; with the prominent businessmen having differences of opinion with the Congress.
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_______ instigated the aboriginal Kachari villagers in Assam to break forest laws during Civil Disobedience Movement.
Chandraprabha Saikiani.
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_______&________ led the faction group in Bengal Congress and set up rival organisations to conduct civil disobedience.
Subhash Bose and J.M. Sengupta.
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______ criticized Gandhi, when latter suspended the Civil disobedience movement in May 1933. He was supported by ________.
Subhash Bose, Vithalbai Patel.
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______&______ led the movement in Hazaribagh along the sanskritising lines with the Congress.
Bonga Majhi and Somra Majhi.
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_______, a local leader in Rai Bareilly, promoted the no rent campaign.
Kalka Prasad.
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________&________ assassinated the district magistrate of Tippera, Stevens. Their action marked the entry of women in the revolutionary movement.
Santi and Suniti Chaudhuri.
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______, a nationalist landlord, financed the Gram Seva Sangh in Agra and remained indifferent to riots in the area, while strictly following the policy of non violence.
Seth Achal Singh.
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_______, a Muslim graduate, started an agitation and attacked the Srinagar jail on July 31, 1931 where 21 persons were killed in police firing. He also developed close contacts with a group of anti autocratic Jammu Hindus led by _______.
Sheikh Abdullah, P.N. Bazaz.
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_______, a Muslim leader in Punjab, organised the Meos (semi-tribal peasant community with leanings towards Islam) to protest against Maharaja Jaisingh Sawai's hike in revenue, begar, and reservation of forests for the purpose of hunting during Civil Disobedience Movement.
Mohammed Yasin Khan.
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_______, who became India's first Marxist historian, was associated with the Civil Disobedience Movement.
K.M. Ashraf.
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_______, who was an upholder of Gandhian policies since 1920's, began to drift away with the launch of Harijan campaign by Gandhi. He started a breakaway Congress Nationalist Party.
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya.
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_______,________,______&_______ demanded a return to electoral politics by way of a revived Swarajya Party.
1. Satyamurthy
2. Bhulabhai Desai
3. M.A. Ansari
4. B.C. Roy.
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Jayaprakash Narayan, _______, Yusuf Mehrali, ______&_______ wanted the Congress to have affinity with left wing.
Achhut Patwardan, Ashok Mehta and Minoo Masani.
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_______ formulated 'A Tentative Socialist Programme' for India and a Congress Socialist Party was started in 1934, which was supported by Narayan Dev.
Sampurnanand.
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_______&________ led the Congress youth wing and later emerged as socialist leaders during Civil Disobedience Movement.
K.F. Nariman and Yusuf Meher Ali.
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_______ with his socialist leanings lent support to a temple entry movement in 1929 and established friendly ties with the non brahmin Satyashodhak Samaj (represented by _________ of Poona).
N.V. Gadgil, Keshavrao Jedhe.
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________ popularised the Civil Disobedience Movement in Orissa and led the salt satyagraha in the coastal areas of Balsore, Cuttack and Puri districts.
Gopalbandhu Chaudhuri.
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_____&_______, two prominent Congress leaders, were against the movement in Assam. They refused to take up forest satyagraha officially.
Tarunaram & N.C. Bardoloi.
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_______ activated the Kisan sabha movement in Gaya district of Bihar during Civil Disobedience Movement.
Jadunandan Sharma.
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_______ of the Krishna district initiated a no revenue campaign in 1931 in coastal Andhra. He also wrote a Telugu ballad *Gandhi Gita* which aroused patriotic sentiments.
Duggirala Balatamakrishnaya.
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_______&______ organised a forest satyagraha in Venkatagiri estate in Nellore in 1931.
N.V. Rama Naidu and N.C. Ranga.
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_______ a school teacher, was a popular activist at Guruvayoor in Kerela and later became Kerela's most popular communist peasant leader during Civil Disobedience Movement.
A.K. Gopalan.
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_____&_____ offered forest satyagraha in Betul in Central Provinces.
Mannu Gond and Chaitu Koiku.
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_______, organised a large praja sammelan at Sirajgunj and demanded abolition of zamidari and reduction in debts during Civil Disobedience Movement.
Maulana Bhasani.
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1. B.T. Ranadev and S.V. Deshpande in Bombay and Abdul Halim, Somnath Lahiri and Ranen Sen in Calcutta were the young communist militants who organised several labour strikes.
2. V.B. Karnik, Maniben Kara, Rajani Mukherji and Niharendu Dutta were other leaders who started trade union activities.
During which movement?
Civil Disobedience Movement.
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_______ and his followers popularised socialist ideas in the villages and a no tax campaign was started in Awadh during Civil Disobedience Movement.
M.N. Roy.
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Who moved the Quit India Resolution?
Jawaharlal Nehru moved the Quit India Resolution on August 8, 1942.
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_______ helped Achyut Patwardhan in his underground activities. She later became India's leading woman industrialist.
Sumati Morarjee.
110
________, a revolutionary activist, was elected the president of the Indian Independence League (formed in March 1942) in June 1942.
Rashbehari Bose.
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______&______ were the arch Moderates, who were in favour of recognising the rights of Muslim majority provinces to secede through plebiscites after independence had been gained. They resigned from the AICC in July 1942.
Bhulabhai Desai and C. Rajagopalachari.
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______ brought out two militant issues of Harijan (after the arrest of Mahadev Desai) to arouse the sentiments of people during Quit India Movement.
K.G. Mashruwalla.
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_______, a Congress leader in Bangalore, played an active role in the trade union field organised strikes by about 30,000 workers during Quit India Movement.
K.T. Bhashyam.
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______, a local Congress leader and the first *sarbadhinayak* of the Tamluk Jatiya Sarkar, helped in establishing a rebel 'national government' in Tamluk sub division of Midnapore.
Satish Samanta.
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_______, a 73 year old peasant widow in Tamluk, was killed in violence on September 29, 1942, when the Sutahata police station was captured. She kept the national flag aloft even after being shot.
Matangini Hazra.
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______, an illiterate villager, led a large tribal population from koraput to protest against the Jeypore zamidari and attack police stations. He was hanged on November 16, 1942 for allegedly murdering a forest guard.
Lakshman Naik.
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_____ headed a rebellion in satara during Quit India Movement.
Nana Patil.
