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Indian National Movement

Santosh Kumar
Keralaboys.net
4/19/2015
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1. As a prelude to the first session of the Indian National Congress, in

which years were the two sessions of the Indian National
Conference held?
Ans. 1883 1885

2. Who were the main architects of the Indian of the Indian National
Conference?
Ans. Surendranath Banerji and Ananda Mohan Bose

3. In which year was the first session of the Indian National Congress
organized ?
Ans. 1885 December (Bombay)

4. Who was called by the Bristish as the father of Indian Unrest?

Ans. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

5. Who is regarded as the Father of Indias Revolution?

Ans Bal Gangadhar Tilak

6. Who ws known as the Grand Old Man of India?

Ans. Dadabhai Naoroji

7. Who was the first Asian to be elected as a member of the British

Parliament?
Ans. Dadabhai Naojoji

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8. Which book of Dadabhai Naoroji brought attention to the draining

of Indias wealth into Britain?
Ans. Poverty & Un-British Rule in India

9. Who founded the Servants of Indian Society in 1905?

Ans. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

10. Who was described by Gandhiji as the most perfect man in the
political fied?
Ans. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

11. Who is known as the political mentor of both Gandhiji and

Mohammed Ali Jinnah?
Ans. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

12. Which natonal leader was described as the Diamond of India by

BG Tilak?
Ans. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

13. Name the retired English Civil servant who is known as the
founder of Indian National Congress?
Ans. AO Hume

14. Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress?
Ans. WC Banerji

15. How many delegates attended the first session of the Congress?
Ans. 72(Seventy two)

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16. Who was the first woman to address a Congress session in 1890?
Ans. Kadambini Ganguly

17. Who is associated with the Safety Value theory of the Congress?
Ans. AO Hume

18. Who was the British Viceroy at the time of the formation of Indian
National Congress?
Ans. Lord Dufferin

19. Which is known as the period of moderates in the Congress?

Ans. 1885-19-5

20. In which year was a British Committee of the Indian National

Congress established in London?
Ans. 1899

21. Who put forward the Drain Theory to explain the British
exploitation of India?
Ans. Dadabhai Naoroji

22. Which Viceroy condemned the nationalist by calling Seditious

Brahmins, Disloyal Babus & called Congress A factory of
sedition?
Ans. Lord Dufferin

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23. Which Viceroy said that the Congress is tottering to its fall and
one of my great ambitions, while in India is to assist it to a
peaceful demise?
Ans. Lord Curzon

24. In 1865, who founded the East India Association at London?

Ans. Dadabhai Naoroji

25. Who was the first to raise the slogan India for the Indians?
Ans. Dayananda Saraswathi

26. Which British Viceroy insulted Indian nationalists and the

intelligentsia by describing their activities as Letting of Gas?
Ans. Lord Curzon

27. Who said that If there is a sin in this world, it is weakness; avoid
all weakness, weakness is sin, weakness is death?
Ans. Swami Vivekananda

28. In which year the British Governments decision to partition

Bengal was made public?
Ans. 1903 December

29. Which British Viceroy was behind the partition of Bengal?

Ans. Lord Curzon

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30. What was the official explanation regarding the partition of

Bengal?
Ans. Administrative difficulties

31. In which year was the partition of Bengal formally came into
effect?
Ans. 16 October 1905

32. Which session of the Congress declared that the goal of the Indian
National Congress was self-government or Swaraj like the United
Kingdom or the colonies?
Ans. 1905 (Calcutta)

33. Who presided over the 1906 session of Indian National Congress
at Calcutta?
Ans. Dadabhai Naoroji

34. Which session of the Congress witnessed the first split in the
organization?
Ans. Surat (1907)

35. Who presided over the 1907 session of the Congress?

Ans. Rashbehari Ghosh

36. Who declared that Political freedom is the life breath of a

Nation?
Ans. Aurobindo Ghosh

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37. Who oganised the Swadesh Bandhab Samiti as a popular &

powerful method of mass mobilization?
Ans. Ashwini Kumar Dutt

38. Who organized Ganapati & Shivaji festivals?

Ans. Balgangadhar Tilak

39. Which song was written by Tagore on the occasion of Bengal

partition?
Ans. Amar Sonar Bangla

40. Which artist was the first ot receive a scholarship offered by the
Indian Society of Oriental Art, founded in 1907?
Ans. Nandalal Bose

41. Which British Viceroy annulled the partition of Bengal?

Ans. Lord Hardinge

42. In which year the British rulers decided to shift the capital of India
to Delhi from Calcutta?
Ans. 1911

43. In which year the British pass the Seditious Meetings Act ?
Ans. 1907

44. Which national leader was sent to Mandalay (Burma) jail for six
years in 1908?
Ans. Bal Gangadhar Thilak

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45. Which British Secretary of State was better known for the Carrot
& Stick Policy towards the nationalists?
Ans. John Morley

46. Who organized the first revolutionary groups in 1902 in

Midnapore?
Ans. Jnanendranath Basu

47. Which revolutionary organization started the weekly Yugantar?

Ans. Anushilan Samiti

48. In which conspiracy case was Aurobindo Ghosh tried in 1908?

Ans. Alipore Conspiracy Case

49. Who started the journals of Kesari and Mahratta?

Ans. Bal Gangadhar Thilak

50. Who started the secret society of Mitra Mela in 1899?

Ans. VD Savarkar

51. Which Indian revolutionary organization was formed in the model

of Mazzinnis Young Italy?
Ans. Abhinav Bharat

52. In 1905, who started an Indian Home Rule Society named India
House as a centre for Indian students in London?
Ans. Shyamji Krishnavarma

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53. In 1906, where was the Muslim League found?

Ans. Dacca

54. Who is considered as the founder of Muslim League?

Ans. Nawab Salimullah

55. Which reform of the British presented separate electrorates for

the Muslims for the first time?
Ans. Minto-Morley Reforms of 1909

56. Who was the first Indian to be appointed to the Viceroys

Executive Council in 1909?
Ans. Satyendra Sinha

57. Where was the headquarters of the Ghadar Party?

Ans. San Francisco (America)

58. In which year was the Ghadar Party established?

Ans. 1913

59. Who was the founder of the Ghadar Party?

Ans. Lala Hardayal

60. In which American city was the United India House set up?
Ans. Seattle

61. The Indian Home Rule Leagues were organized on the lines of the
Ans. Irish Home Rule Leagues

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62. Who were the leaders of two Home Rule Leagues in India?
Ans. BG Thilak & Annie Besant

63. Which were the newspapers started by Annie Besant?

Ans. New India and Commonweal

64. In which year was the reunion of the Moderates & Extremists of
the Congress?
Ans. 1916(Lucknow)

65. Who presided over the 1916 Session of the Congress at Lucknow?
Ans. Ambika Charan Mujumdar