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An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.

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GK Updates India Part-11

  1. Who published a pamphlet titled Gandhi Vs. Lenin in 1921? 

S.A. Dange

  1. The establishment of a separate Pub­lic Works Department in every province was during the period of:

Dalhousie 

  1. The Communist Party of India was founded in on 17 October 1920, soon after the Second

Congress of the Communist International:

Tashkent 

  1. The founder of Ripon College at Calcutta: 

Surcndra Nath Bannerjce

  1. Which war was concluded by the Treaty of Salbai (1782)?

First Anglo-Maratha War

  1. Who was the Viceroy when Montague-Chelmsford reforms were introduced?

Chelmsford 

  1. The triple alliance formed against Tipu in 1790 included the English, the Marathas and: 

Nizam

  1. Who was the Viceroy when the Minto-Morley reforms were introduced?

Minto 

  1. In order to give some concession to Indians in the field of admin­istration, the Government of ln­dia Act, 1935 was designed on the basis of the recommendation of:

Simon Commission 

  1. The short biographical article titled Karl Marx – a modern Rishi was written by the Ger­man-based Indian revolution­ary—–?

Lala Har Dayal 

  1. Who was dubbed by the British Government as ‘A Seditionist in disguise’? 

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

  1. Who was the Viceroy when the Non-Cooperation movement was launched? 

Chelmsford

  1. Rajendra Lahiri was hanged in connection with:

Kakori case 

  1. “The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was not one movement.. …. it was many”- Who made this statement?

C.A. Bayly 

  1. The English daily started by Lala Lajpat Rai: 

The People

  1. The First Surveyor General of In­dia and Scottish antiquarian who visited Vijayanagara in 1799: 

Colin Mackenzie

  1. The leader of the Hindu Ma­hasabha who directed the Hin­dus not to participate in the Quit India Movement: 

V.D. Savarkar

  1. The leader whom the extremists called ‘faint-hearted moderate’?

Gopal Krishna Gokhale 

  1. Under which Act did India come to be known as part of British territory for the first time?

Act of 1784 

  1. The monument that was built to commemorate the soldiers who lost their lives in World War I: 

India Gate

  1. “Forget not that the lower classes, the ignorant, the poor, the illiter­ate, the cobbler, the sweeper are thy flesh and blood, thy brothers”- These words are related to:

Swami Vivekananda 

  1. In which session of the Indian National Congress Sir C. San­karan Nair became President?

Amaravati 

  1. The Governor-General who es­tablished a Board of Revenue to improve the system of revenue administration: 

‘Warren Hastings

  1. Who became the President of the Indian National Congress for the longest continuous period before independence?

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 

  1. Who was the chairman of the Famine Commission appointed by Lord Elgin in 1897?

Sir James B. Lyall 

  1. The first Muslim to become the President of Indian National Congress:

Badruddin Tyabji 

  1. The committee appointed in 1927 to examine financial and economic relationships existing between British India and the In­dian States:

Butler Committee 

  1. The first Swadeshi dacoity or robbery was organised in the year 1906 in: 

Rangpur

  1. While staying in Rome, during a European visit, which Indian leader declined the invitation of Benito Mussolini to meet him? 

Jawaharlal Nehru

  1. Who became the principal of the National College in Kolkata Founded during the Swadeshi Movement? 

Aurobindo Ghosh 

  1. The Viceroy who introduced financial decentralisation?

Mayo

  1. Who called Bal Gangadhar Ti­lak, father of Indian Unrest? 

Valentine Chirol

  1. Who recommended the accept­ance of Pakistan in principle as a basis of settlement between Congress and League, in 1942 April? 

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

  1. Who represented Indian Nation­al Congress in the Congress of Oppressed Nationalists held in Brussels in 1927? 

Jawaharlal Nehru

  1. Who founded ‘Mitra Mela’? 

Savarkar brothers

  1. Who was the Viceroy during the Second and Third Round Table Conferences? 

Wellington

  1. Lakshminath Bezbarua was a nationalist writer in…………. during the freedom movement:

Assamese 

  1. The Governor-General who in­troduced Subsidiary Alliance? 

Wellesley

  1. Who was the spiritual guru of Dayanand Saraswati:

Swami Virjanand 

  1. The Viceroy when the First Round Table Conference was held in 1930? 

Irwin

  1. Who gave a systematic critique of the moderate politics of the Indian National Congress in a series of articles entitled “New Lamps for Old”?

Aurobindo Ghosh 

  1. Who founded Madras Labour Union?
  2. P. Wadia 
  1. During Swadeshi Movement ‘National Education Council’ was formed by the freedom fighters in:

1906 

  1. During the revolt of 1857, Delhi was captured by the mutineers on:

12th May 1857 

  1. In which year did Dadabhai Naoroji put forward his “Drain of Wealth’ theory? 

1867

  1. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose established provisional govern­ment of India (Government of Azad Hind) based in Singapore on: 

21st October 1943

  1. In which year Shiromani Gurd­wara Prabandhak Committee was formed? 

1920 

  1. Who led the Congress delegates in the Shimla Conference? 

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

  1. The first to become the President of the Indian National Congress:

W.C. Banerjee 

  1. The longest-running parallel government formed during Quit India Movement was in:

Satara 

  1. The second session of the All In­dia Kisan Sabha held in Faizpur was presided over by: 

N.G.Ranga

  1. The venue of the first conference of the Indian National Congress in 1885: 

Mumbai

  1. What is the name of the fort built by the English in Kolkata?

Fort William 

  1. Which country banished the ship ‘Komagata Maru from its territorial waters in 1913?

Canada 

  1. After Vinoba Bhave and Jawaha­rlal Nehm who was selected as the third person for Individual Satyagraha?

Brahma Dutt 

  1. Who founded ‘Free Hindustan’ in Vancouver, Canada? 

Tharakanath Das

  1. ‘Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man’. Who said? 

Swami Vivekananda

  1. Who was the ruler of Kashmir at the time of independence?

Hari Singh 

  1. Muslim League joined the Interim Government on:

26th October 1946

  1. The Naval Mutiny of 1946 began on: 

18th February 1946

  1. The Naval Mutiny of 1946 began with the strike of the naval staff of the ship:

INS Talwar 

  1. Who is the author of ‘Social Background of Indian Nation­alism’?

A.R. Desai 

  1. Dayananda was born on Feb­ruary 12 in 1824, in the town of Tankara, near Morvi (Morbi) in the Kathiawar region of the princely state of.. ….

Gujarat 

  1. The first woman President of the Indian National Congress:

Annie Besant 

  1. In 1878, the government reduced the maximum age limit for the open competition for the civil service examination from 21 to:

19

  1. Joseph Francois Dupleix was the commander of the—— forces in India:

French 

  1. The Permanent Settlement was enforced in — 

1793 

  1. The youngest to become the Congress President: 

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

2069 A spinal injury while horseback riding left this person in lifelong pain for which he wore a met­al corset under his clothes. He served as the Viceroy of India. Name this person:

Curzon 

  1. Congress ministers from how many provinces resigned fol­lowing the instructions of High Command in 1939? 

Eight

  1. He was born with a withered arm and no left hand. He was appointed Viceroy of India in 1926. Name this person:

Irwin 

  1. In which session of the Indian National Congress was it pro­posed that the ~1:ate shall own or control the key industries, mines and means of transport? 

Karachi Session, 1931

  1. Name the person who resigned his position as Viceroy of India in August 1905 because of a difference of opinion with Lord Kitchener, the British military Commander-in-Chief in India:

Curzon 

  1. TI1e British Committee of Indian National Congress was formed in:

1889 

  1. Name the Viceroy who under­took the restoration of the Taj Mahal: 

Curzon 

  1. Which day was called ‘Day of Deliverance’ by Muhammad Ali Jinnah?

22nd December 1939 

  1. The first Indian woman to be­come the President of Indian National Congress:

Sarojini Naidu 

  1. In which year Mahatma Gandhi became the president of Indian National Congress:

1924 

  1. The Governor-General who made English as the medium of instruction: 

William Bentick

  1. ‘We shall either free India or die in the attempt; We shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery’ Mahatma Gandhi said these words in connection with: 

Quit India

  1. Bahadur Shah Zafar, who was deported by the British after the 1857 mutiny, died in the Ran­goon jail in:

1862 

  1. In which year did Jawaharlal Nehru become the President of the In­dian National Congress for the first time?

1929 

  1. In which year did Subash Chandra Bose become the President of the Indian National Congress for the first time? 

1938

  1. The British officer who under his own authority shot Balla­dur Shah Zafar’s sons Mirza Mughal, Mirza Khazir Sultan, and grandson Mirza Abu Bakr at the Khooni Darwaza: 

William Hodson 

  1. The Viceroy who is known as the father of Local Self Government: 

Lord Ripon

  1. During the Quit India Movement the first ‘parallel government’ was established in:

Balia 

  1. During the Quit India Movement, Congress Radio was broadcasted from: 

Mumbai

  1. Who along with Bhulabhai Desai resigned from Congress in opposition to the Quit India Movement
  2. Rajagopalachari 
  1. During the Quit India Movement which organisation was formed in Tamluk?

Vidyut Vahini 

  1. The parallel government in Baliia during the Quit India Movement was led by: 

Chittu Pandey

  1. Where ‘Rakt Vahini’ was formed during the Quit India Movement? 

Cuttack

  1. Who described Quit India Movement as ‘Irresponsible and an act of madness’?

B.R. Ambedkar 

  1. After Partition, a Malayali Muslim served as Pakistan’s Ambassador to Egypt. The reference here is about 

Abdul Sathar Sait 

  1. Madras Mahajana Sabha was established in:

1884     

  1. Pondicherry was the main base on the Coromandel Coast of the:

French East India Company

  1. Revolutionary youth Madanlal Dhingra shot dead:

Curzon Wylie

  1. Sir William Sleeman was associated with the operation against the:

Thugs   

  1. The ‘Voice of India’ published extracts from Indian Press. It was started by:

Dadabhai Naoroji  

  1. The author of ‘1857 The Great Rebellion’:

Ashok Mehta

  1. The first Indian to be elected to the leadership of Communist International was:

M.N.Roy   

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