Comprehensive Notes and 500+ MCQ on Indian National Movement Part- II for WBCS
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- Indian National Movement Phase- III (1935-1947)
- Important Personalities and their Contribution to the Indian National Movement.
- Indian National Movement: Miscellaneous topics
- Revolutionary Activities During the 1920s
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- The first Indian leader to undergo imprisonment was
[A] C Vijaraghavachari
[B] B G Tilak
[C] Bipin Chandra Pal
[D] Dadabhai Nauroji
- Name the philosopher who believed that freedom is the keynote of spiritual life?
[A] Gopalakrishna Gokhale
[B] Nehru
[C] Ambedkar
[D] Vivekananda
- Who is the chief exponent of Two nation theory
[A] Vivekananda
[B] Gokhale
[C] Gandhiji
[D] Mohammed Ali Jinnah
- The doctrine of Hindutva was expounded by
[A] V.D.Savarkar
[B] Tilak
[C] Gandhiji
[D] Nehru
- The theory of ‘Cultural Nationalism’ was expounded by
[A] Gokhale
[B] Vivekananda
[C] Savarkar
[D] Nehru
- D Savarkar was born in
[A] 1885
[B] 1883
[C] 1888
[D] 1870
- Mohammed Ali Jinnah was born in
[A] Lahore
[B] Bombay
[C] Delhi
[D] Karachi
- In which year Mohammed Ali- Jinnah was elected to the Imperial Legislative Council from Bombay?
[A] 1910
[B] 1914
[C] 1919
[D] 1924
- Tilak regarded that Swaraj was not only a right but a
[A] Justice
[B] Dharma
[C] power
[D] Status
- Sree Narayana Guru was born in :
[A] Sivagiri
[B] Aruvipuram
[C] Chempazanthi
[D] Kollam
- SNDP Yogam was formed in the year
[A] 1903
[B] 1896
[C] 1908
[D] 1914
- The doctrine of Ramarajya was expounded by
[A] Tilak
[B] Gokhale
[C] Gandhiji
[D] Nehru
- Who is the “Champion of Secularism?”
[A] Jinnah
[B] Nehru
[C] Savarkar
[D] Tilak
- Who regarded the villages as the centre of Indian economic organization?
[A] Gandhiji
[B] Vivekananda
[C] Raja Ram Mohan Roy
[D] Tilak
- Gandhism is not merely a political creed it is
[A] A programme of action
[B] A message
[C] theory
[D] Working class movement
- Name the important work of V.D. Savarkar.
[A] Princess
[B] Politics
[C] Freedom struggle
[D] Hindutva
- Who is regarded as the pragmatic social reformer?
[A] Nehru
[B] Thilak
[C] Sree Narayana Guru
[D] Mahathma Gandhi
- Who condemned Gandhism as a reactionary social philosophy?
[A] Gopalakrishna Gokhale
[B] M.N.Roy
[C] Nehru
[D] Lohia
- Independent India was founded by :
[A] Gopalakrishna Gokhale
[B] Tilak
[C] M.N. Roy
[D] Jayaprakas Narayanan
- Doctrine of Total Revolution was expounded by
[A] Jayaprakas Narayanan
[B] M.N Roy
[C] Gandhiji
[D] Tilak
- Radical Democratic party was organised by
[A] Lohia
[B] M.N.Roy
[C] Jayaprakash Narayanan
[D] Tilak
- Who is the champion of the doctrine of ‘social revolution through human Revolution’?
[A] M.N.Roy
[B] Lohia
[C] Jayaprakash Narayanan
[D] Nehru
- Jinna’s Two –nation Theory was adopted on
[A] 1935
[B] 1940
[C] 1925
[D] 1947
- The concept of four pillar state was advocated by
[A] Lohia
[B] M.N.Roy
[C] Nehru
[D] Ambedker
- Who considered Jinnah as an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity?
[A] Gandhiji
[B] Tilak
[C] Sarojini Naidu
[D] Vivekananda
- Jinnah’s two nation theory was adopted as the
[A] Lahore Resolution
[B] Karachi Resolution
[C] Dacca Declaration
[D] Bombay resolution
- Azad Muslim conference’ was formed in
[A] 1929
[B] 1940
[C] 1941
[D] 1947
- Name the political leader who supported two nation theory
[A] Gandhiji
[B] Gokhale
[C] Jinnah
[D] Tilak
- All Indian Muslim League was started in:
[A] 1960
[B] 1906
[C] 1921
[D] 1928
- Glimpses of world History’ was written by
[A] Nehru
[B] Gandhiji
[C] Thilak
[D] Ambedkar
- Who is the author of Discovery of India?
[A] Gandhiji
[B] Vivekananda
[C] Nehru
[D] Gokhale
- The fundamental principles of Pancha-shila were laid down in the year;
[A] 1961
[B] 1955
[C] 1954
[D] 1950
- R. Ambedker was born in
[A] 1891
[B] 1893
[C] 1898
[D] 1901
- A public meeting was held on 13th April 1919 at _______ in a smallpark enclosed by buildings on all sides to protest against the Rowlett Act.
[A] Jallianwala Bagh
[B] Uttar Pradesh
[C] Mumbai
[D] Delhi
- Brigadier-General _______ with his British troops entered the park at Jallianwala Bagh , closed the entrance of the park and commanded his army to fire on the gathered people without any warning.
[A] Reginald Dyer
[B] Sir Stafford Cripps
[C] Sir Claude Auchinleck
[D] General Sir Rob Lockhart.
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2nd October_______
[A] 1869
[B] 1859
[C] 1889
[D] 1900
- Gandhiji came back to India from South Africa, in the year_______.
[A] 1914
[B] 1915
[C] 1916
[D] 1917
- _______, who led the Congress party, introduced Mahatma Gandhi to the concerns in India and the struggle of the people.
[A] Tej Bahadur Sapru
[B] Rabindranath Tagore
[C] Mohammad Ali Jinnah
[D] Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- A series of non-violence campaigns of Civil Disobedience Movement were launched by the Indian National Congress under the leadership of_______.
[A] Mohammad Ali Jinnah
[B] Sri Aurabindo
[C] Motilal Nehru
[D] Mahatma Gandhi
- The Kheda Satyagraha and Champaran agitation in 1918 was one of _______ first significant steps to achieve Indian independence.
[A] Rabindranath Tagore’s
[B] Gandhiji
[C] Motilal Nehru’s
[D] Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s
- Mahatma Gandhi on August 8, _______ gave the call for Quit India Movement.
[A] 1942
[B] 1920
[C] 1930
[D] 1940
- _______ called on all Congressmen and Indians to maintain discipline via nonviolence and Do or Die in order to achieve ultimate freedom.
[A] Mahatma Gandhi
[B] Motilal Nehru
[C] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[D] Sri Aurobindo
- On 9th of August, 1942, Mahatma Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee were arrested in_______.
[A] UP
[B] Delhi
[C] Ahmedabad
[D] Mumbai
- In 1946, upon persuasion of_______, Mahatma Gandhi reluctantly accepted the proposal of partition and independence offered by the British cabinet, in order to evade a civil war.
[A] Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
[B] Rajguru
[C] Sukhdev
[D] Mohammed Ali Jinnah
- During the First World War, _______ joined the central powers against Britain.
[A] America
[B] Greece
[C] France
[D] Turkey
- A Khilafat Committee was formed under the leadership of Mahammad Ali, _______ Maulana Azad and Hasrat Mohini to organise a Country-wide agitation.
[A] Shaukat Ali
[B] Qutubuddin Ahmad
[C] Shamsuddin Hussain
[D] Mohammed Ali Jinnah
- The main object of Khilafat Movement was to force the _______ Government to change its attitude towards Turkey and to restore the Sultan.
[A] British
[B] Austrian
[C] American
[D] Serbian
- October 17, _______ was observed as Khilafat Day, when the Hindus alongwith Muslims in fasting observed hartal on that day.
[A] 1908
[B] 1909
[C] 1916
[D] 1919
- An All India Khilafat Conference was held at _______ on November 23, 1919 with Gandhi as its president.
[A] Calcutta
[B] Punjab
[C] Gujarat
[D] Delhi
- Congress leaders, like Lokamanya Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi, viewed the _______ as an opportunity to bring about Hindu-Muslim unity against British.
[A] Khalifat Movement
[B] Khudai Khidmatgars
[C] Peasant movement
[D] Womens’ movement
- _______ visited Malabar in 1921, giving a further impetus to the Khalifat movement.
[A] Gandhiji
[B] Motilal Nehru
[C] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[D] Sri Aurobindo
- A tragic episode namely the Moppila Rebellion or the Malabar Rebellion occurred in ____.
[A] 1911
[B] 1919
[C] 1920
[D] 1921
- After the notice had expired the Non-Cooperation movement was launched formally on 1st August of_______
[A] 1915
[B] 1916
[C] 1918
[D] 1920
- At the _______ Session on September, 1920 the program of the Non-Cooperation movement was started.
[A] Punjab
[B] Calcutta
[C] Delhi
[D] Lahore
- The programs of _______ involved the surrender of titles and offices and resignation from the nominated posts in the government body.
[A] Non-cooperation
[B] Khudai Khidmatgars
[C] Labour movement
[D] Womens’ movement
- _______ strictly advised the Non-Co-operators to observe truth and non-violence.
[A] Tilak
[B] Motilal Nehru
[C] Gandhiji
[D] Sri Aurobinda
- The decision taken in Calcutta Session was supported in the _______ Session of the Congress on December 1920.
[A] Nagpur
[B] Bengal
[C] Andhra
[D] Karnataka
- _______ along with Ali Brothers went to a nationwide tour during which he addressed the Indians in hundreds of meetings.
[A] CR Das
[B] Motilal Nehru
[C] Gandhi
[D] J.M Sengupta
- The educational boycott was most successful in _______ under the leadership of Chitta Ranjan Das and Subhas Chandra Bose.
[A] Bihar
[B] Bombay
[C] Bengal
[D] Madras.
- In the second Round Table Conference, _______ was appointed as the representative of the Congress, which was convened from 1st September to 1st December in the year1931.
[A] Gandhiji
[B] B.R.Ambedkar
[C] Annie Besant
[D] Maulana Azad
- _______ announced “Communal Award” on August 4, 1932.
[A] Ramsay Macdonald
[B] Qutubuddin Ahmad
[C] Shamsuddin Hussain
[D] Mohammad Ali Jinnah
- _______ said that ‘There is no god higher than truth’.
[A] Mahatma Gandhi
[B] Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
[C] Hakim Ajmal Khan
[D] Abbas Tyabji
- _______ adopted the methods of Satyagraha in his fight against the racial discrimination of the American authorities in 1950.
[A] Martin Luther King
[B] Motilal Nehru
[C] B.R.Ambedkar
[D] Mahatma Gandhi
- Whose autobiography was titled ‘My Experiments with Truth?’
[A] Mahatma Gandhi
[B] Motilal Nehru
[C] C. Rajagopalachari
[D] Rajendra Prasad
- The Lahore Congress of 1929 was monumental in the political career of _______ as well as the history of India’s freedom struggle.
[A] Jawaharlal Nehru
[B] B.R.Ambedkar
[C] K. Damodaran
[D] Mahatma Gandhi
- _______ was born on 23rd Jan, 1897 in Cuttack, Orissa, India.
[A] Subhas Chandra Bose
[B] B.R.Ambedkar
[C] Krishna Pillai
[D] N.C.Sekhar
- _______ became the president of the Haripura Indian National Congress against the wishes of Gandhiji in 1938.
[A] Subhas Chandra Bose
[B] Qutubuddin Ahmad
[C] Shamsuddin Hussain
[D] Maulana Shaukat Ali
- Direct Action Day ‘Hartal’ called by the _______ on August 16, 1946 to get rid of ‘British slavery and contemplated future caste-Hindu domination’.
[A] Muslim League
[B] Congress
[C] CPI
[D] CSP
- The central teaching of Gandhi’s thought is :
[A] truth
[B] love
[C] religion
[D] spirituality
- Gandhi understood the facts of non-violence from the teachings of:
[A] Buddhism and Jainism
[B] Advaita
[C] Christianity
[D] Islam
- _______ ranked the first among the influences which moulded Gandhi.
[A] Upanishads
[B] Quran
[C] Bible
[D] Gita.
- _______ is considered as the most important teaching of Gandhi.
[A] Love of humanity
[B] Love of God
[C] Truth is God
[D] God is love
- Truth to Gandhi is not an epistemological presupposition but an
[A] psychological notion
[B] ontological implication
[C] epistemological notion
[D] none of these
- According to Gandhi nothing is exist in reality expect:
[A] love
[B] goodness
[C] beauty
[D] truth
- The essential nature of God is described by Gandhi by the phrase:
[A] Sarveswaran
[B] Svarupan
[C] Satchidananda
[D] Iswara
- _______ Upanishad made a deep influence upon Gandhi
[A] Mandukhya
[B] Chandokhya
[C] Isavasym
[D] Brahadaranya
- To Gandhi _______ is the aim of life.
[A] self-realization
[B] freedom
[C] liberation
[D] independence
- Tolstoy’s _______ made much impression upon Gandhi.
[A] Unto This Last
[B] Enlightens
[C] The Kingdom of God within You
[D] None of these
- The Guajarati translation of the ‘Unto this Last’ is called:
[A] Harijan
[B] Sarvodya
[C] Navajeevan
[D] Swadesi
- Who wrote the essay “Civil Disobedience”?
[A] Thoreau
[B] Gandhi
[C] Ruskin Bond
[D] Tolstoy
- “Daridra Narayana” means:
[A] Poor God
[B] God is poor
[C] Poor as God
[D] none of these
- According to Gandhi ‘service of the poor is the :
[A] service of society
[B] service of humanity
[C] service of God
[D] service of the society
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- Harijan means:
[A] God of people
[B] God’s people
[C] People’s God
[D] God and people
- Gandhi said, “For me there can be no politics without_______.”
[A] Service
[B] religion
[C] will
[D] none of these
- Gandhi believed in the sovereignty of the people based on pure _______.
[A] rational authority
[B] political wisdom.
[C] moral authority
[D] knowledge
- By the term Panchyat Raj, Gandhi means:
[A] Federation of decentralised rural communities
[B] Federation of rural communities
[C] Federation of decentralised communities
[D] none of these
- Quit India Movement is also known as _______
[A] August movement
[B] May Movement
[C] July Revolution
[D] None of the above.
- INA was formed in _______
[A] 1942
[B] 1940
[C] 1941
[D] 1943
- _______ was associated with INA.
[A] C.R. Das
[B] Abul Kalam Azad
[C] S.C Bose
[D] J.L. Nehru
- Ambedkar adopted _______.
[A] Hinduism
[B] Islam
[C] Buddhism
[D] Christianity
- Gitanjali is the work of _______.
[A] Tagore
[B] Nehru
[C] SC Bose
[D] None
- Motilal Nehru is associated with_______.
[A] Swaraj party
[B] HSRA
[C] INA
[D] None
- Jaya Prakash Narayan is associated with _______.
[A] Socialism
[B] Communism
[C] Naxalism
[D] None
- First Indian to use the word ‘Swarajya’
[A] Raja Ram Mohan Rai
[B] Mahatma Gandhi
[C] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[D] Swami Vivekananda
- All India Harijan Sangha was established by Mahatma Gandhi in the year
[A] 1935
[B] 1932
[C] 1920
[D] 1927
- In which place did Satyagraha first started by Mahatma Gandhi
[A] Delhi
[B] Calcutta
[C] Baroda
[D] Champaran
- Who was the first to address Mahatma Gandhi as the “Father of Nation”
[A] Subhas Chandra Bose
[B] Rabindranath Tagore
[C] B G Tilak
[D] JL Nehru
- Dandi March was began on the date of
[A] 12th March, 1930
[B] 15th March, 1928
[C] 15th April, 1932
[D] 30th March, 1932
- Which farm established by Mahatma Gandhi in Natal, South Africa
[A] Phoenix Farm
[B] Tolstoy Farm
[C] Sabarmati Ashram
[D] None of the above
- Who is considered as the chief architect of Taj Mahal?
[A] Mir Abd-ul Karim
[B] Ustad-Ahmad Lahori
[C] Makramat Khan
[D] Ustad Isa
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