Multiple choice questions on Modern Indian History & Freedom Struggle for General Studies and GK preparation of SSC, NDA, CDS, UPSC, UPPSC and State PSC Examinations.
11. Which leader did Mahatma Gandhi call the ‘Prince among Patriots’?
[A] Vallabhbhai Patel
[B] Jawaharlal Nehru
[C] Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
[D] Bhagat Singh
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Correct Answer: C [Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose]
Notes:
Gandhiji in 1942 referred to Subhash Chandra Bose as “Prince among the Patriots”. Bose was one of the most prominent freedom fighters in the independence struggle of India against the British.
12. Who said these words at the time of Quit India Movement—”Do or die”?
[A] Motilal Nehru
[B] Mahatma Gandhi
[C] Sardar Patel
[D] Subhash Chandra Bose
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Correct Answer: B [Mahatma Gandhi]
Notes:
The Quit India speech is a speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, on the eve of the Quit India movement. He called for determined, but passive resistance that signified the certitude that Gandhi foresaw for the movement. He gave the call to Do or Die. In 1942, in a fiery speech in Mumbai, Mahatma Gandhi gave the people of India a final push to make the British quit.
13. Who gave the ‘Communal Award’ in India?
[A] C. R. Attlee
[B] Ramsay Macdonald
[C] Stafford Cripps
[D] None of the above
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Correct Answer: B [Ramsay Macdonald]
Notes:
The Communal Award was made by the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald on 16 August 1932 granting separate electorates in India for the Forward Caste, Scheduled Caste, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, Indian Christians, Anglo-Indians, Europeans and Depressed Classes.
14. Railway and Telegraphy systems were introduced in India by which of the following governors?
[A] Lord Dalhousie
[B] Lord Cornwallis
[C] Lord Bentinck
[D] Lord Wellesley
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Correct Answer: A [Lord Dalhousie]
Notes:
In 1852 Dalhousie introduced the Electric Telegraph System in India. The first telegraph line from Calcutta to Agra was opened in 1854, covering a distance of 800 miles.
Lord Dalhousie Introduced the Railway in India for the first. He was the Governors-General of India at the Time. The First Railway was construction between Bombay’s Bori Bunder station and Thane on 16 April 1853.
15. Swaraj as a national demand was first made by which of the following leaders?
[A] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[B] Dadabhai Naoroji
[C] Jawaharlal Nehru
[D] Chitaranjan Das
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Correct Answer: B [Dadabhai Naoroji]
Notes:
In the Calcutta Session of Congress in 1906, Dadabhai Naoroji had placed Swaraj as a national demand. It was the first time that the demand for a self government or swaraj, like that of UK and other colonies was raised from the platform of the Congress.
16. Federation, Indian responsibility, reservation and safeguards were the three lynchpins of which of the following announcements?
[A] Gandhi-lrwin Pact
[B] Macdonald Award
[C] Poona Pact
[D] Radcliffe Award
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Correct Answer: A [Gandhi-lrwin Pact]
Notes:
Federation, Indian responsibility, reservation and safeguards were the three lynchpins of Gandhi-lrwin Pact. The ‘Gandhi-Irwin Pact’ was a political agreement signed by Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin, the then Viceroy of India, on 5 March 1931 before the second Round Table Conference in London.
17. Who among the following founded the Indian National Congress in 1885?
[A] Dadabhai Naoroji
[B] Henry Cotton
[C] Badruddin Tyabji
[D] A. O. Hume
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Correct Answer: D [A. O. Hume]
Notes:
On 28 December 1885, the Indian National Congress was founded by A. O. Hume at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay, with 72 delegates in attendance. Hume assumed office as the General Secretary, and Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee of Calcutta was elected President.
18. Which one of the following is not correct about the Cabinet Mission Plan?
[A] Provincial grouping
[B] Interim Cabinet of Indians
[C] Acceptance of Pakistan
[D] Constitution framing right
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Correct Answer: C [Acceptance of Pakistan]
Notes:
Cabinet mission proposed a rejection of the demand for a full fledged Pakistan because the Pakistan so formed would include large non-muslim population – 38% in the N-W and 48% in the N-E.
19. What is the correct sequence of the following events?
I. Tilak’s Home Rule League
II. Kamagatamaru Incident
III. Mahatma Gandhi’s arrival in India
Select the correct answer using the codes given below :
Codes :
[A] I, II, III
[B] III, II, I
[C] II, I, III
[D] II, III, I
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Correct Answer: D [II, III, I]
Notes:
Indian Home Rule League of Tilak was launched in April 1916, while the Home Rule League of Annie Besant came into existence in September that year.
The Komagata Maru incident involved the Japanese steamship Komagata Maru, on which a group of people from British India attempted to emigrate to Canada in 1914, but most were denied entry and forced to return to Calcutta, India.
Struggle for Indian independence (1915–1947) At the request of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, conveyed to him by C. F. Andrews, Gandhi returned to India in 1915. He brought an international reputation as a leading Indian nationalist, theorist and community organiser.
20. Which one of the following events, was characterized by Montague as ‘Preventive Murder’?
[A] Killing of INA activists
[B] Massacre of Jallianwalla Bagh
[C] Shooting of the Mahatma
[D] Shooting of Curzon-Wythe
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Correct Answer: B [Massacre of Jallianwalla Bagh]
Notes:
3th April, 1919 at Amritsar,Punjab: Rabindranath Tagore renounce his knighthood as “a symbolic act of protest on 30th May 1919. In the repudiation letter, dated 30 May 1919 and addressed to the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, he wrote “I … wish to stand, shorn, of all special distinctions, by the side of those of my countrymen who, for their so called insignificance, are liable to suffer degradation not fit for human beings.”Shankar Ram Nayar resigned from the membership of the Viceroy’s Council. Michael O’Dwyer, aged 75, was shot dead at a joint meeting of the East India Association and the Central Asian Society in Caxton Hall, London on 13 March 1940, by an Indian revolutionary, Udham Singh, in retaliation for the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar.Edwin Montague, condemned O’Dwyer’s severity, and called it as “Preventive Murder”. C.F.Andrews called Jallianwala Massacre as ruthless Murder.