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DDB NO: Indian National Movement 03 (English)
1. (D) Vivekanada
2. (D) Mohammed Ali Jinnah
3. (A) V.D.Savarkar
4. (C) Savarkar
5. (B) 1883
6. (D) Karachi
7. (A) 1910
8. (B) Dharma
9. (C) Chempazanthi
10. (A) 1903
11. (C) Gandhiji
12. (B) Nehru
13. (A) Gandhiji
14. (B) A message
15. (D) Hindutva
16. (C) Sree Narayana Guru
17. (B) M.N.Roy
18. (C) M.N. Roy
19. (A) Jayaprakas Narayanan
20. (B) M.N.Roy
21. (C) Jayaprakash Narayanan
22. (B) 1940
23. (A) Lohia
24. (C) Sarojini Naidu
25. (A) Lahore Resolution
26. (B) 1940
27. (C) Jinnah
28. (B) 1906
29. (A) Nehru
30. (C) Nehru
31. (C) 1954
32. (A) 1891
33. (A) Jallianwala Bagh
34. (A) Reginald Dyer
35. (A) 1869
36. (B) 1915
37. (A) Tej Bahadur Sapru
38. (D) Mahatma Gandhi
39. (B) Gandhiji
40. (A) 1942
41. (A) Mahatma Gandhi
42. (D) Mumbai
43. (A)Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
44. (D) Turkey
45. (A) Shaukat Ali
46. (A) British
47. (D) 1919
48. (D) Delhi
49. (A) Khalifat Movement
50. (A) Gandhiji
51. (A) Eranad
52. (D) 1921
53. (A) Pokottur
54. (A) Mambaram
55. (D) 1920
56. (B) Calcutta
57. (A) Non-cooperation
58. (C) Gandhiji
59. (A) Nagpur
60. (C) Gandhi
61. (C) Bengal
62. (A) Gandhiji
63. (A) Ramsay Macdonald
64. (A) Mahatma Gandhi
65. (A) Martin Luther King
66. (A) Mahatma Gandhi
67. (A) Jawaharlal Nehru
68. (A) Subhas Chandra Bose
69. (A) Subhas Chandra Bose
70. (A) Muslim League
71. (D) 1946
72. (A) truth
73. (A) Buddhism and Jainism
74. (D) Git(A)
75. (C) Truth is God
76. (C) epistemological notion
77. (D) truth
78. (C) Satchidananda
79. (B) Chandokhya
80. (A) self-realization
81. (C) The Kingdom of God within You
82. (C) Navajeevan
83. (B) Gandhi
84. (B) God is poor
85. (C) service of God
86. (C) People’s God
87. (A) Service
88. (D) knowledge
89. (C) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of (A)
90. (A) Orissa
91. (A) 1, 3, 4 and 5
92. (C) 1, 2 and 5
93. (C) 2, 3 and 5
94. (A) 2 and 3
95. (A) A is true but R is false.
96. (A) President's rule – Article 365
97. (C) 1, 3 and 4
98. (A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of (A)
99) Answer: d)
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan is the person who led Civil Disobedience Movement in North-West Frontier Province. He was the most loyal follower of Gandhi and was called Frontier Gandhi.
100) Answer: b)
The Deccan Education Society (1884) established in Pune under the inspiration of Justice M.G. Ranade. The other members who were the part of the society are Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, Mahadev Ballal Namjoshi, V. S. Apte, V. B. Kelkar, M. S. Gole and N. K. Dharap. It was formed to contribute to the cause of education and culture in Western India.
101) Answer: b)
On 10 January 1908 Mahatma Gandhi was arrested for the first time in South Africa for refusing to carry an obligatory identity document card commonly known as the ‘pass’.Gandhi was released in February after negotiations with the government.
102) Answer: b)
The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The ultimate goal of Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt Satyagraha was Repeal of Salt laws.
103) Answer: a)
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was a senior leader of Indian National Congress and a prominent figure in the Indian Freedom Struggle.In 1939, for the first time, Gandhiji tried out his specific techniques of controlled mass struggle in a native state. He allowed a close associate of his, Vallabh Bhai Patel to lead a satyagraha in Rajkot.
104) Answer: d)
Erode Venkatappa Ramaswamy was an ardent follower of Mahatma Gandhi, but he was forced to leave Indian National Congress in the year 1925. The main reason was injustice to non-Brahmins, which motivated him to start the self-respect movement for the backward classes and weaker sections of the society.
105) Answer: a)
Mahatma Gandhi make the first use of Hunger Strike as a weapon in Ahmedabad Mill Strike, 1918.
This hunger strike was in the interest of striking mill workers in Ahmedabad and it lasted for 3 days.
106) Answer: b)
The concept of Satyagraha was given by Mahatma Gandhi which was based on the non-violent actions.
The Mahatma Gandhi selected Acharya Vinoba Bhave as the first civil register for the individual Satyagraha.
Acharya Vinobha Bhave started individual Satyagraha from Pavnar in Maharashtra in 1940.
107) Answer: c)
The Kakori Conspiracy was a train robbery that took place between Kakori and, near Lucknow, on 9 August 1925 during the Indian Independence Movement against the British Indian Government. The robbery was organised by Hindustan Republican Association.
108) Answer: c)
The Congress declared 26 January 1930 as ‘Independence Day’(Poorna Swaraj Day), when the Declaration of Independence was officially promulgated. However, since 15 August became the official Independence Day in 1947, the new Indian Constitution took effect on 26 January 1950, to mark the 1930 declaration.
109) Answer: d)
"Tryst with Destiny" was a speech delivered by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of
independent India, to the Indian Constituent Assembly in The Parliament, on the eve of India’s Independence, towards midnight on 14 August 1947 in which he said ‘At the stroke of midnight, when the world sleeps, India awakes to life and freedom’.
110) Answer: d)
Ahmedabad Satyagraha of Gandhi was directed against Indian mill owners and non-government officials. He launched a struggle and resorted to peaceful resistance. The workers proudly followed Gandhi and pledged their full support to him. They paraded the streets with large banners, and said they would not go back to work until a settlement had been reached.
111) Answer: a)
Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna is a Urdu patriotic poem written by Ramprasad Bismil as an ode to young freedom fighters of the Indian independence movement. In 1921 Bismil wrote this poem following the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and other atrocities by the British colonialists. It was first published in journal "Sabah", published from Delhi.
112) Answer: c)
The Simon Commission was strongly opposed by many Indians.It was opposed by Nehru, Gandhi, Jinnah, the Muslim League and Indian National Congress because it contained seven members of the British Parliament but no Indians.Indians saw it as a violation to their right of self-determination and insult to their self-respect.
113) Answer: d)
Gandhi’s inspiration for Civil Disobedience came from the writings of Henry David Thoreau.
When Mahatma Gandhi was working out his concept of non-violent resistance, he was impressed by Henry David Thoreau’s advice to resist things that were wrong. Gandhi adopted many of Thoreau’s thoughts in developing his concept of Satyagraha (non-cooperation), or Truth Force.
114) Answer: a)
Mahatma actually means ‘Great soul’.
Being a person who gave up his career as a barrister, adopted the simplest of life for the welfare of the people and for the Independence of India, title of Mahatma was bestowed on Gandhi by Rabindranath Tagore for his contributions towards the nation
115) Answer: d)
In December 1922, Chittaranjan Das, Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar and Motilal Nehru formed the Congress-Khilafat Swarajaya Party with Das as the president and Nehru as one of the secretaries.
116) Answer: d)
Shivaswami Ayer examined the Simon commission Report and said that this report should be thrown on a heap of rubbish.
117) Answer: a)
On 8 August 1942at the All-India Congress Committee session in Bombay, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi launched the ‘Quit India’ movement. The next day, on 9th August, 1942 Gandhi, Nehru and many other leaders of the Indian National Congress were arrested by the British Government.
118) Answer: d)
The All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) is a left-wing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The party re-established as an independent political party after the independence of India. Thus, after leaving the Congress, Subhash Chandra Bose formed, in 1939, his own party, named Forward Bloc.
119) Answer: c)
The name of Tilak became household names during Home rule movement and this let him earn the epithet Lokmanya. Home Rule League was set up in April 1916 by Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
120) Answer: b)
Quit India Movement was started on 8 Aug,1942 in Bombay under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. In this movement, he gave a slogan "Do or Die" which means Karenge Ya Marenge. Mahatama Gandhi gave this slogan first time during this movement.
121) Answer: c)
All India Scheduled Castes Federation (SCF) was an organisation in India founded by B. R. Ambedkar in 1942 to campaign for the rights of the Dalit community. An executive body of All India SCF was elected in the convention.
122) Answer: b)
The Kerala Legislative Assembly election of 1957 was the first assembly election in the Indian state of Kerala. The Communist Party of India won the election with 60 seats.Thus, the first Non-Congress Government was set up in Kerala in independent India.
123) Answer: c)
Raja Ram Mohan Roy is considered as the pioneer of modern Indian Renaissance for the remarkable reforms he brought in the 18th and 19th century India.The very basis of an ideal society as per Raja Rammohan Roy was unity and equality. He first made an organised movement against one of the malignant disorders of popular Hinduism, Sati.
124) Answer: d)
When Gandhiji went back to Durban with his family, his ship was not allowed to dock for three days. And when he finally deboarded, he was beaten by the ‘whites’. Thus, Gandhiji was beaten up and thrown off the pavement by the white people in Durban, South-Africa.
125) Answer: a)
Due to his involvement with the Indian National Congress and participation in the political agitation in Punjab, Lala Lajpat Rai was deported to Mandalay in Burma without trial in 1907.Rai urged many powerful countries to realise the atrocious subjugation of India under the British rule.
126) Answer: d)
“The real seat of taste is not the tongue, but the mind” is the statement from the autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi which contains the life incidents of Gandhi ji from his childhood.It was published weekly in his other journal, Navjeevan.
127) Answer: a)
When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated Albert Einstein said -Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.
128) Answer: d)
The issue on which the Civil disobedience movement of 1930 was launched was Salt monopoly exercised by the British Government.
129) Answer: c)
Gandhiji had no doubt that non-violence was as effective a weapon against communal strife as it had proved in their struggle against the British. Thus, according to him, non-violence of brave is the strongest force in the world.
130) Answer: b)
Gopal Hari Desmukh, popularly known as “Lokahitawadi”, was a product of the Western learning in India.
He was an Indian activist, thinker, social reformer and writer from Maharashtra.
131) Answer: b)
The Servants of India Society was formed in Pune, Maharashtra, on June 12, 1905 by Gopal Krishna Gokhale, who left the Deccan Education Society to form this association.Its aim was to unite and train Indians of different ethnicities and religions in welfare work. It was the first secular organization in that country to devote itself to the underprivileged, rural and tribal people, and other social causes.
132) Answer: c)
Trusteeship is a socio-economic philosophy that was propounded by Mahatma Gandhi. It provides a means by which the wealthy people would be the trustees of trusts that looked after the welfare of the people in general.Mahatma Gandhi strived to bridge economic inequalities through Trusteeship theory.
133) Answer: d)
Sri Ramakrishna mostly known as Ramakrishna Paramhansa was a spiritual genius, now respected in India and abroad as an outstanding saint of our times.His life and thoughts represents the highest and best of modern Hindu philosophy and practice. He is called as the ‘Prophet of New India’.
134) Answer: d)
Ram Prasad Bismil was an Indian revolutionary who participated in Mainpuri conspiracy of 1918, and the Kakori conspiracy of 1925, and struggled against British imperialism. Thus, he was the hero of the ‘Kakori Dacoity’ case which took place on August 9,1925.
135) Answer: a)
Gandhi opposed the Communal award because he feared that it would disintegrate Hindu society. However, the Communal Award was supported by many among the minority communities, most notably the leader of the Scheduled Castes, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
136) Answer: a)
The Gandhi–Irwin Pact was a political agreement signed by Mahatma Gandhi and the then Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin on 5 March 1931 before the Second-Round Table Conference in London. Stopping of the civil disobedience movement by the Indian National Congress was one of the proposed condition of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact.
137) Answer: b)
Wahabi movement was not led by Mahatma Gandhi. This movement, centred around Patna was an Islamic revivalist movement, whose stress was to condemn any change into the original Islam and return to its true spirit. The movement was led by Syed Ahmed Barelvi.
138) Answer: d)
Simon Commission group was appointed in November 1927 by the British Conservative government under Stanley Baldwin to report on the working of the Indian constitution established by the Government of India Act of 1919. The goal of the Simon Commission was to give an account of how the Indian constitution was working and to review the working of diarchy.
139) Answer: c)
Young Bengal movement was launched by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio. The Young Bengal movement was a group of radical Bengali free thinkers emerging from Hindu College, Calcutta. They were also known as Derozians, after their firebrand teacher at Hindu College, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.
140) Answer: c)
Gandhi first conceived satyagraha in 1906 in response to a law discriminating against Asians that was passed by the British colonial government of the Transvaal in South Africa. In 1917 the first satyagraha campaign in India was mounted in the indigo-growing district of Champaran.
141) Answer: a)
The Bhoodan Movement was a voluntary land reform movement in India. It was initiated by Acharya Vinoba Bhave in 1951 at Pochampally village, which is now in Telangana, and known as Bhoodan Pochampally. It is also called the Land Gift Movement.
142) Answer: a)
The Poona Pact refers to an agreement between Mahatma Gandhi and Babasaheb Ambedkar on behalf of depressed classes and upper caste Hindu leaders on the reservation of electoral seats for the depressed classes in the legislature of British India government in 1930. Thus, the Poona pact signed in 1934 provided for joint electorate with reservation for Harijans.
143) Answer: c)
On December 17, 1927, the revolutionaries Bhagat Singh and Shivaram Rajguru shot and killed assistant superintendent of police John Saunders. They were supported in this act by their compatriots Sukhdev Thapar and Chandrashekhar Azad. However, their original target was not Saunders but superintendent of police James Scott who had ordered his men to lathi-charge protesters leading to the death of the nationalist leader Lala Lajpat Rai.
144) Answer: a)
It was on October 21, 1943 that Subhash Chandra Bose established the Arzi Hukumat e Azad Hind – the provisional government of Free India in Singapore. It received recognition by as many as eleven countries, including Japan, Nanking China, Thailand, Burma, Italy, Germany and the Philippines.
145) Answer: b)
After the failure of Non-cooperation Movement, the Swaraj Party was formed. The non-cooperation movement was launched on 1st August 1920 by the Indian National Congress (INC) under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi.
146) Answer: d)
“Dilli Chalo” was a slogan of Subhas Chandra Bose. The ultimate goal of the Azad Hind Fauz during the freedom struggle was to capture Delhi and establish Swaraj.
147) Answer: a)
Jayaprakash Narayan popularly referred to as JP or Lok Nayak , was an Indian independence activist, theorist, socialist and political leader. He is also known as the "Hero of Quit India Movement".
148) Answer: a)
The four fundamental principles that Mahatma Gandhi taught are Truth (Satya), non-violence (ahimsa), welfare of all (sarvodaya) and peaceful protest (satyagraha).
149) Answer: c)
The movement which was started by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan to Educate the Muslims of sub-continent is called Aligarh Movement. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan wanted to bring closer the Muslims and the British, so that problems and hardships of the Muslims would be reduced.
150) Answer: a)
Dadabhai Naoroji was elected to the British House of Commons from the Finsbury Central Constituency in the elections of 1892.
151) Answer: c)
Gandhiji’s movement of boycotting the foreign goods aimed at promotion of cottage industries.
Gandhi believed that the country can only prosper if we make our villages economically independent through cottage industries. This was the principle behind the Khadi movement, behind Gandhi’s urging that Indians spin their own clothing rather than buy British goods.
152) Answer: d)
Chauri chaura incident happened on 4th February 1922 in Chauri chaura village in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh is very important in the history of national movement. The incident lead to killing of 22 policemen and immediate end of Non-Cooperation Movement by Gandhi owning to violence.
153) Answer: c)
Young India was a weekly paper or journal in English published by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi from 1919 to 1931.Gandhi wrote various quotations in this journal that inspired many. He used Young India to spread his unique ideology and thoughts regarding the use of nonviolence in organising movements and to urge readers to consider, organise, and plan for India’s eventual independence from Britain.
154) Answer: d)
Gandhi inaugurated the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930 by conducting the historic Dandi Salt March starting from Sabarmati Ashram from where he went on to break the Salt Laws imposed by the British Government.
155) Answer: a)
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. He was arrested in May 1908 in connection with the Alipore Bomb Case. He was acquitted in the ensuing trial and released after a year of isolated incarceration.
156) Answer: c)
Cripps mission failed to fulfill the desires of Indian political leaders of different political parties to make Constitution assembly. So, INC committee and Gandhi ji decided to launch a movement on 8 Aug 1942 named Quit India Movement from Gwalia Tank Maidan(Mumbai).
157) Answer: b)
The Khilafat movement, is known as the Indian Muslim movement was a pan-Islamist political protest campaign launched by Muslims of the British India led by Shaukat Ali, Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Hakim Ajmal Khan. It was launched to protest against the humiliation of the Turkish Caliph.
158) Answer: d)
During Quit India movement, parallel governments were formed at several places such as: Ballia - First parallel government formed under Chittur Pandey, Tamluk (Midnapur,Bengal) , Satara (Maharashtra) - longest running parallel government.
159) Answer: d)
Jawahar Lal Nehru established the Indian Civil Liberties union in 1936. Origins of the human rights movement in India was established by the Indian Civil Liberties Union (ICLU) in 1936, and examines the role of its founder, Jawarharlal Nehru, independent India’s first prime minister.
160) Answer: b)
Madan Mohan Malaviya became the President of the Indian National Congress in 1909 and 1918.
He was a moderate leader and opposed the separate electorates for Muslims under the Lucknow Pact of 1916. The "Mahamana" title was conferred to him by Mahatma Gandhi.
161) Answer: d)
Tana Bhagat Movement was a tribal uprising of a section of the Tana Bhagats and Oraons under the leadership of Jatra Oraon occurring during the late colonial period in the Chhotanagpur region of Bihar, India
162) Answer: d)
The Naujawan Bharat Sabha was established by Shaheed Bhagat Singh in March 1926. Bhagat Singh and his comrades worked for Naujawan Bharat Sabha along with Hindustan Socialist Republican Association of 1928.
163) Answer: b)
The educational conference endorsing Gandhi’s proposals for ‘basic education’ through the Vernacular medium was held in October 1937 at Wardha.
164) Answer: a)
Anandmath was a source of inspiration for the freedom fighters in India. It was written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. It is about the Sanyasi Rebellion in 18th century.
165) Answer: d)
In 1913, Pacific Coast Hindustan Association was founded by Lala Hardayal with Sohan Singh Bhakna as its president, which was called Ghadar Party. The members of this party were the immigrant Sikhs of US and Canada. The first issue of The Ghadar, was published from San Francisco on November 1, 1913.
166) Answer: c)
Subhash Chandra Bose was re-elected the President of INC at the Tripuri Session in 1939 by defeating the Gandhiji’s Candidate Pattabhai Sitaramaiyya.
167) Answer: b)
C. Rajagopalachari founded the Swatantra Party. He was the last Governor-General of India and one of the first recipients of India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
168) Answer: a)
General Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer was an officer of the British Indian Army who, as a temporary brigadier-general, was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar. He enacted the Martial Law and ordered open fire on the public that had gathered in the Jallianwala Bagh on April 13, 1919.
169) Answer: a)
Vishwa Bharti was not founded by Mahatma Gandhi. Visva-Bharati University is a public research central university and an Institution of National Importance located in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva-Bharati, which means the communion of the world with India.
170) Answer: d)
The Wahabi movement was a movement of the Muslims, by the Muslims and for the Muslims and aimed at the establishment of Dar-ul-Islam in India. At no stage, did it assume the character of a nationalist movement. Rather it left behind a legacy of isolationist and separatist tendencies among the Indian Muslims.
171) Answer: a)
Kaiser-e-hind was the title given by British to Mahatma Gandhi. It was surrendered by him during the Non-Cooperation Movement.
172) Answer: d)
The Swadeshi and Boycott Movement was a turning point in the history of Indian Nationalism. The Swadeshi movement was in protest of the Government’s decision to partition Bengal. It called for boycott of all British goods and buy Indian products only.
173) Answer: b)
Abhinav Bharat was named after the Abhinav Bharat Society, an organisation founded by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 1904.The original organization believed in armed revolution, and was responsible for the assassinations of some officers of the ruling British government before being disbanded in 1952.
174) Answer: c)
The Indian Reform Association was formed on 29 October 1870 with Keshub Chunder Sen as president. It represented the secular side of the Brahmo Samaj and included many who did not belong to the Brahmo Samaj. The objective was to put into practice some of the ideas Sen was exposed to during his visit to Great Britain.
175) Answer: c)
Bharatendu Harishchandra is known as the father of modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre. He is considered one of the greatest Hindi writers of modern India. He was not actively engaged in social and religious reforms in India.
176) Answer: a)
Khudiram Bose was arrested and trialed for the murder of the two women, ultimately being sentenced to death. At the time of his hanging, Khudiram was 18 years, 8 months, and 11 days old, making him one of the 2nd youngest revolutionaries in India.
177) Answer: a)
Non-cooperation movement was a movement organized by Mohandas Gandhi, to induce the British government of India to grant self-government, or swaraj, to India. The movement was suspended in February 1922 on account of Chauri Chaura incident.
178) Answer: c)
In November 1919, a joint conference of the Muslims and Hindus was called at Delhi in pursuance of the Muslim League President Fazl-ul-Haq known as All India Khilafat Conference. Gandhi was elected as the president of the First All-India Khilafat Conference in 1919.
179) Answer: b)
In July 1942, congress committee met at Wardha and accepted the idea of Quit India movement. A long resolution was passed which insisted for the immediate ending of “British rule in India”. This resolution was the outcome of attitude change in the congress and Gandhi himself towards British.
180) Answer: b)
Bal Gangadhar Tilak was a leader, teacher, lawyer and social reformer who died on the day the Non-cooperation movement which was launched in 1920.
181) Answer: c)
C. Rajagopala Chari was the only leader who accepted the Pakistan principle and supported the Cripps mission.
182) Answer: a)
The Kakinada session of the Indian National Congress, which inspired the launch of the Vaikom Satyagraha, was held in the year 1923.Vaikom Satyagraha was a movement against untouchability in a place called Vaikom in Kottayam district.
183) Answer: a)
The Bhoodan Movement or Land Gift Movement was a voluntary land reform movement in India.
It was initiated by Acharya Vinoba Bhave in 1951 at Pochampally village, which is now in Telangana, and known as Bhoodan Pochampally.
184) Answer: b)
An Indian independence leader, Subhas Chandra Bose, helped start the Free Indian legion and got serious concessions from Germany on how the troops would be trained, deployed, equipped, paid, and more.
Basically, the agreement was that the unit would be trained, paid, and equipped at the same level as any normal German unit.
185) Answer: d)
The Rowlatt Act (1919) was passed by the British government despite the united opposition of the Indian members. This Act gave enormous powers to the government to repress political activities and allowed detention of any person without trial for two years. This act aroused a wave of popular indignation that led to the massacre by the British at Jallianwala Bagh.
186) Answer: b)
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist. He joined the Indian movement for independence from British rule, for a while was one of its influential leaders and then became a spiritual reformer, introducing his visions on human progress.
187) Answer: a)
Swaraj can mean generally self-governance or "self-rule", and was used synonymously with "home-rule" by Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati and later on by Mohandas Gandhi, but the word usually refers to Gandhi’s concept for Indian independence from foreign domination. Swaraj as a national demand was first of all made by Dadabhai Naoroji.
188) Answer: d)
K.P. Kesava Menon was the leader of Vaikom Satyagraha in Kerala in the year 1924. Their demand was the allowing entry of untouchables into the Mandir. Mahatma Gandhi supported this movement.
189) Answer: d)
In 1882, a short time after C. Vijayaraghavachari had set up practice in Salem, a riot broke out in the city.
Vijayaraghavachari was charged for instigating the violence that led to the demolition of a mosque and was sentenced to prison for ten years.
190) Answer: c)
The Khilafat movement, also known as the Indian Muslim movement, was a pan-Islamist political protest campaign launched by Muslims of British India led by Shaukat Ali, Mohammad Ali Jauhar and Abul Kalam.
191) Answer: a)
Keshav Gangadhar Tilak, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence activist. He was one third of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate. He was called by the British rulers as ‘the leader of Indian unrest’.
192) Answer: a)
Gandhi arrived in Champaran 10 April 1917 with a team of eminent lawyers- Brajkishore Prasad, Rajendra Prasad, Anugrah Narayan Sinha and others including Acharya kripalani. Thus, option a) is correct.
193) Answer: b)
Gandhiji moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit. He went on to stay for 21 years. It was in South Africa that Gandhi raised a family, and first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights. In 1915, aged 45, he returned to India.
194) Answer: b)
Jatindra Nath Das, also known as Jatin Das, was a revolutionary and Independence activist. e embraced death in Lahore jail after fasting for 63 days on September 13, in the year 1929, aged 24 years.
195) Answer: c)
The slogan of ‘Vande Mataram’ was first adopted during the swadeshi movement which was against the partition of Bengal. It is a poem from Bankim Chandra Chattopahyay’s novel Anandmath in 1882, written in Bengali and Sanskrit. It became the prayer song during the anti-partition meetings.
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