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 India’s 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
8. Which book of Dadabhai Naoroji brought attention to the draining of India’s 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)
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
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 Government’s decision to partition Bengal was made public?
Ans. 1903 December
29. Which British Viceroy was behind the partition of Bengal?
Ans. Lord Curzon
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
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
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 Mazzinni’s ‘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
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 Viceroy’s 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
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
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