The National Movement 1905-18

Question 1

List the reactionary policies of Lord Curzon.

Answer 1

The Calcutta Corporation Act, 1899, The Official Secrets Act 1904, The Indian Universities Act 1904 and Partition of Bengal in 1905

Question 2

The British idea to Partition Bengal became known in which year?

Answer 2

1903

Question 3

The motive behind partition of Bengal was to?

Answer 3

weaken Bengal which was the nerve centre of Indian nationalist activity

Question 4

the official reason given for the partition of Bengal was?

Answer 4

that Bengal had become too big to administer which was true but only to some extent

Question 5

The moderate led anti partition movement was held in the years?

Answer 5

1903-05

Question 6

Who were the leaders of the moderate led anti partition movement?

Answer 6

Surendranath Banerjee, KK Mitra and Pritwishchandra Ray

Question 7

The anti partition movement under extremists was held in the years?

Answer 7

1905-08

Question 8

The leaders of the anti partition movement under extremists were?

Answer 8

Tilak, BC Pal, Lajpat Rai and Aurobindo Ghosh

Question 9

The partition of Bengal was annulled mainly because?

Answer 9

to curb the menace of revolutionary terrorism

Question 10

The anti partition movement under extremists was called?

Answer 10

Swadeshi Movement

Question 11

The Moderate Extremist split took place at ______ in _____.

Answer 11

Surat in 1907

Question 12

Moderates wanted to restrict the boycott Movement to?

Answer 12

Bengal

Question 13

Moderates wanted to restrict the boycott to a boycott of only?

Answer 13

foreign cloth and liquor

Question 14

Extremists wanted to take the boycott movement to ______ and include within its ambit ______.

Answer 14

1. all parts of the country 2. all forms of association with the Government

Question 15

List the acts enacted for the repression of the Swadeshi Movement.

Answer 15

Seditious Meetings Act 1907, Criminal Law Amendment Act 1908, Indian Newspapers (Incitement to Offences) Act 1908, Explosive Substances Act 1908, Indian Press Act 1910

Question 16

The first revolutionary group in Midnapore and Calcutta was?

Answer 16

The Anushilan Samiti 1902

Question 17

The revolutionary weekly Yugantar was started in?

Answer 17

1906

Question 18

In Bengal in 1907, an attempt on the life of whom was made?

Answer 18

Former Lieutenant Governor of East Bengal and Sikkim

Question 19

Who attempted to murder Muzaffarpur Magistrate Kingsford?

Answer 19

Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose in 1908

Question 20

Who were involved in the Alipore Conspiracy Case?

Answer 20

Aurobindo Ghosh and Barinda Kumar Ghosh

Question 21

The Barrah Dacoity was organised by?

Answer 21

Dacca Anushilan in 1908

Question 22

In 1912, a bomb was thrown at Viceroy Ha Hardinge by?

Answer 22

Rashbehari Bose and Sachin Sanyal

Question 23

Ramosi Peasant Force was led by?

Answer 23

Vasudev Balwant Phadke

Question 24

List the journals of Tilak.

Answer 24

Kesari and Maharatta

Question 25

Tilak attempted to propagate militancy among youth through ______ festivals.

Answer 25

Shivaji and Ganapati

Question 26

Who killed Rand, The Plague Commissioner of Pune and Lieutenant Ayerst?

Answer 26

The Chapekar Brothers in 1897

Question 27

Name the secret society organised by Savarkar and his brother.

Answer 27

Mitra Mela in 1899

Question 28

In 1904, Mitra Mela was merged with?

Answer 28

Abhinav Bharath

Question 29

The District Magistrate of Nashik, Mr. Jackson was killed in which year?

Answer 29

1909

Question 30

List the revolutionary leaders in Punjab.

Answer 30

Lala Lajpat Rai, Ajit Singh, Ada Haider, Syed Haider Raza, Bhai Parmanand, Lalchand 'Fakak', Sufi Ambaprasad

Question 31

Who set up Indian Home Rule Society and India House and brought out the journal The Sociologist in London?

Answer 31

Shyamji Krishnavarma in 1905

Question 32

Who murdered Curzon-Wylie?

Answer 32

Madan Lal Dhingra in 1909

Question 33

Who brought out the journal Bande Mataram?

Answer 33

Madam Bhikaji Cama

Question 34

Madam. Bhikaji Cama operated from?

Answer 34

Paris and Geneva

Question 35

The Ghadr Party was organised in North America by?

Answer 35

Lala Hardayal, Ram Chandra, Bhawan Singh, Kartar Singh Saraba, Barkatullah and Bhai Parmanand

Question 36

Who attempted to bring it an armed revolt in India in February 1915?

Answer 36

The Ghadr Party

Question 37

Defence of India Act 1915 was passed primarily to deal with?

Answer 37

The Ghadrites

Question 38

Defence of India Act 1915 was passed primarily to deal with?

Answer 38

The Ghadrites

Question 39

Berlin Committee for Indian Independence was established by?

Answer 39

Virendranath Chattopadhyay

Question 40

Virendranath Chattopadhyay sent missions to?

Answer 40

Baghdad, Persia, Turkey and Kabul

Question 41

Bagha Jatin organised revolutionary activity in _____ and died in ____

Answer 41

1. Bengal 2. an encounter in Balasore in 1915

Question 42

Home Rule League Movement was pioneered by?

Answer 42

Tilak and Annie Besant

Question 43

The Home Rule League Movement was on the lines of?

Answer 43

a similar Movement in Ireland

Question 44

The aim of the Home Rule League Movement was to?

Answer 44

convey to the common man the concept of home rule as self government

Question 45

Tilak started the Home Rule League Movement in?

Answer 45

April 1916

Question 46

Tilak's Home Rule League Movement was operational in?

Answer 46

Maharashtra, Karnataka, Central Provinces and Berar and had 6 branches

Question 47

Annie Besant's League was started in?

Answer 47

September 1916

Question 48

Besant's League operated in?

Answer 48

Rest of India and had 200 branches

Question 49

The Extremists were readmitted into Congress in?

Answer 49

Lucknow Session of INC, 1916

Question 50

Muslim League and Congress put up joint demands under the?

Answer 50

Lucknow Pact

Question 51

In the Lucknow Session of INC, 1916, Congress accepted Muslim League's position on?

Answer 51

separate electorates