Freedom Struggle - 1905 to 1930

Part-1
Indo Pathshala
Who was the leader of the Swadeshi Movement that
arose in response to the Partition of Bengal?

a) M. K Gandhi
b) Jawaharlal Nehru • Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a prominent
freedom fighter, played a crucial role in
c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
leading the Swadeshi Movement,
d) Lala Lajpat Rai
• which aimed at boycotting British goods
and promoting the use of Indian-made
products as a form of protest against the
Option : C partition.
 Which event marked the beginning of the Civil
Disobedience Movement in India?

a) Dandi March • The Civil Disobedience Movement

b) Chauri Chaura incident began with the Dandi March, led by
c) Jallianwala Bagh massacre Mahatma Gandhi on March 12, 1930.
• It was a non-violent protest against
d) Non-Cooperation Movement the British salt tax, and it sparked
widespread civil disobedience across
Option : A India
Who was known as the "Frontier Gandhi" for his efforts
in the Khilafat Movement?

a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

• Khan Abdul Gafar Known as ‘Frontier
b) Abul Kalam Azad Gandhi’
• Khan Abdul Gafar founded an
c) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan organisation called ‘Khuda-i-
d) Motilal Nehru Khidmatgar’ - a non-violent resistance
against the British.
• On 23 April 1930
• he launched the Peshawar Satyagraha.
Option : C
The Rowlatt Act, which authorized the government to
imprison people without trial, was passed in which year?

a) 1905
b) 1919 • The Rowlatt Act was passed in 1919. The act was
officially titled the Anarchical and Revolutionary

c) 1922 Crimes Act of 1919 and was enacted by the British

colonial authorities in India during their rule.

d) 1919 • It allowed the government to arrest and detain

individuals without trial and gave them the power to
curb political dissent and suppress revolutionary
Option : B activities.
Who was the British General responsible for the
Jallianwala Bagh massacre?

a) General Dyer
• The British General responsible for the Jallianwala
b) General Montgomery Bagh massacre was General Reginald Dyer.

c) General Cornwallis • The incident occurred on April 13, 1919, in Amritsar,

Punjab, during British colonial rule in India.

d) General Wellington • General Dyer blocked the only entrance to Jallianwala

Bagh and ordered his troops to open fire on the
unarmed civilians.
Option : A
 The Non-Cooperation Movement was suspended
in 1922 due to:

a) British concessions
b) Violent clashes in Chauri Chaura
c) Mahatma Gandhi's illness The Non-Cooperation Movement was suspended
in 1922 due to the violent incident known as the
d) Maulana Azad's arrest Chauri Chaura incident.
In Chauri Chaura, Uttar Pradesh, a violent mob
set fire to a police station killing 22 policemen
Option : B during a clash between the police and protesters
of the movement.
The Bardoli Satyagraha was led by:

a) Mahatma Gandhi The Bardoli Satyagraha was led by Sardar

Vallabhbhai Patel in 1928 .
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
It was a significant nonviolent resistance
c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel movement that took place in the Bardoli taluka of
Gujarat.
d) Subhas Chandra Bose

Option : C
The Purna Swaraj Resolution was adopted by the
Indian National Congress at its session in:

a) Lahore
The Purna Swaraj Resolution was adopted by the Indian
b) Delhi National Congress at its session in Lahore . The resolution
declared the Congress's demand for complete independence
c) Bombay (Swaraj) from British rule in India.

d) Calcutta
Option : A
The All India Muslim League was formed in
which year?

a) 1906 On 30 December 1906, the All-India

b) 1919 Muslim League (AIML), popularly
known as the Muslim League was
c) 1922 founded in Dhaka, British India
(now in Bangladesh).
d) 1930
Option : A
Who led the Dandi March, also known as the Salt
Satyagraha, in 1930?

a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Bhagat Singh • The Dandi March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, in 1930,
was led by Mahatma Gandhi.
c) Vallabhbhai Patel • The Dandi March started on March 12, 1930, and concluded on
April 6, 1930.
d) Mahatma Gandhi • Mahatma Gandhi, along with a group of followers, walked
approximately 240 miles from his ashram in Sabarmati, near
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to the coastal village of Dandi on the
Option : D Arabian Sea.
The famous slogan "Swaraj is my birthright and I shall
have it" was coined by:

a) Jawaharlal Nehru
The famous slogan "Swaraj is my birthright and I
b) Bhagat Singh shall have it" was coined by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a
prominent freedom fighter and nationalist leader in
c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak India during the British colonial era.

d) Mahatma Gandhi

Option : C
The massacre in Amritsar, known as the Jallianwala
Bagh massacre, occurred in which year?

a) 1905 The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as

b) 1919 the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April
1919.
c) 1922
d) 1930
Option : B
The Simon Commission, aimed at reviewing India's
constitutional progress, was appointed in which year?

a) 1905
The Simon Commission, officially known as the "Indian
b) 1919 Statutory Commission," was appointed in 1927.
It was established by the British government to review
c) 1927 India's constitutional progress and make
d) 1930 recommendations for future reforms.
The commission was headed by Sir John Simon

Option : C
The Simon Commission was boycotted by the Indian
National Congress because:

a) It had no Indian members

b) It supported complete independence
c) It proposed fair representation for Indians
d) It supported the Khilafat Movement
It was boycotted by the Indians because: All its
members were Englishmen. The Commission had
Option : A no Indian member. This was seen as a deliberate
insult to the self-respect of the Indians.
Who was the first woman President of the Indian
National Congress?

a) Annie Besant
b) Sarojini Naidu
c) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
The first woman President of the Indian
d) Kamala Nehru National Congress was Annie Besant. She
served as the President of the Indian
Option : A National Congress in 1917. She is
popularly known as Annie Wood
The Chauri Chaura incident took place in which state
of India?

a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Bihar
c) Punjab
d) Maharashtra

Option : A
• The Chauri Chaura incident took place in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
• It occurred on February 4, 1922
• During the Non-Cooperation Movement, which was a significant civil
disobedience campaign led by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian
National Congress against British colonial rule.
• During the incident, a group of protesters clashed with the police in
Chauri Chaura, resulting in the death of 22 police officers.
• Following this violent turn, Mahatma Gandhi decided to suspend the
Non-Cooperation Movement as he believed it had lost its nonviolent
character.
Which revolutionary leader was involved in the Kakori
Conspiracy of 1925?

a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak The revolutionary leader involved in the

b) Motilal Nehru Kakori Conspiracy of 1925 was Ram Prasad
Bismil.
c) Ram Prasad Bismil
He was one of the key figures and
d) Subhas Chandra Bose masterminds behind the Kakori train
robbery, which took place on August 9,
Option : C 1925.
The Home Rule League was founded by:

a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

b) Annie Besant The Home Rule League was founded by Annie Besant.
It was founded at Madras on 28 April 1916.
c) Motilal Nehru She opened more than 200 branches all over India.
The Indian Home Rule movement was on the lines of
d) Dadabhai Naoroji the Irish Home Rule movement in British India.

Option : B
The Bardoli Satyagraha was organized by peasants in
Gujarat against:

a) High land revenue and taxes

b) The British education system
c) The salt tax The Bardoli Satyagraha was organized by peasants in
Gujarat, India against the high land revenue imposed
d) The Rowlatt Act by the British colonial administration.
The satyagraha took place in 1928 and was led by
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel,
Option : A
The Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms introduced in 1919
included the formation of:

a) The Indian National Army (INA)

b) The Indian Civil Service (ICS)

• The Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms, also
c) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) known as the Government of India Act of
1919, introduced the concept of "dyarchy" in
d) Dyarchy in provincial governments provincial governments in British India.
• Dyarchy was a system of dual governance,
dividing the provincial subjects into two
categories: "transferred" and "reserved."
Option : D
The Poona Pact of 1932 was an agreement between Dr. B. R.
Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi regarding ?

a) The formation of a new political party

b) The right to vote for women
c) Separate electorates for Dalits (Untouchables) The Poona Pact, also known as the Gandhi-
Ambedkar Pact, was an agreement reached
d) The abolition of the Zamindari system between Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the leader of the
Dalit community (Untouchables), and Mahatma
Gandhi in September 1932.
The agreement was related to the issue of
Option : C separate electorates for Dalits under the British
government's proposed Communal Award.
Who coined the term "Swaraj" (self-rule) to describe
India's struggle for independence?

a) Jawaharlal Nehru
In 1906, Dadabhai Naoroji (who was the President of
b) Subhas Chandra Bose the INC session at Calcutta), and in his Presidential
address, used the word Swaraj.
c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak • Thus, the word, 'Swaraj' wasn't untouchable to
them, but they were reluctant to pass the resolution
d) Dadabhai Naoroji over 'Swaraj'.
• Therefore, Dadabhai Naoroji was the first Indian to
use the word Swarajya in 1906.
Option : D
In which year, JP Saunders was assassinated by Raj
Guru and Bhagat Singh?

a)1927
JP Saunders was assassinated by Rajguru and
b)1928 Bhagat Singh on December 17, 1928.
Saunders was a British police officer in charge of the
c)1929 investigation into the death of Lala Lajpat Rai, who
had succumbed to injuries sustained during a lathi-
d)1930 charge (baton charge) during a protest against the
Simon Commission
Option : B
The Khilafat Movement was initiated by whom?

a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

b) Jinnah
The Khilafat Movement was initiated by the Ali
c) Ali Brothers brothers -Maulana Mohammad Ali and Maulana
Shaukat Ali, who were prominent leaders of the
d) Agha Khan Indian Muslim community.
They, along with other Muslim leaders, led the
movement in India in support of the Ottoman
Caliphate, which was the religious and political
Option : C leadership of the Muslim world.
When did the Khilafat Movement begin in India?

a) 1905
b) 1919 The Khilafat movement (1919-1924) was an agitation by
Indian Muslims allied with Indian nationalism in the
c) 1920 years following World War I.

d) 1930
Option- B
The Khilafat Movement aimed to defend the
caliphate of the:
a. Egyptian President
The Khilafat Movement aimed to defend the
b. Turkish Sultan caliphate of the Ottoman Sultan.
The movement was launched in the early 1920s in
c. Ottoman Sultan
India and was a significant pan-Islamic movement
d. Iranian Shah led by Indian Muslims, with the support of
Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National
Congress.
Option- c
During the Non-Cooperation Movement, Mahatma
Gandhi encouraged Indians to boycott:

a. Political meetings and gatherings During the Non-Cooperation Movement, Mahatma

Gandhi encouraged Indians to boycott British
b. Indian goods and services institutions and goods as a form of nonviolent
c. Local markets and shops resistance against British colonial rule.
He advocated for the boycott of British-made clothes,
d. British goods and services educational institutions, law courts, and government
services.

Option- D
Whose death coincided with the launch of the non-
cooperation movement in 1920?

a. GK Gokhale The launch of the non-cooperation movement

in 1920 coincided with the death of Bal
b. Bal Gangadhar Tilak Gangadhar Tilak.
c. Dadabhai Naoroji His death deeply impacted the Indian
nationalist movement, and it was during this
d. Lokmanya Tilak time that Mahatma Gandhi initiated the non-
cooperation movement as a means of
nonviolent resistance against British colonial
Option- B rule.
The Dandi March, also known as the Salt March,
was a protest against:

a. The Simon Commission

The Dandi March, also known as the Salt March, was
b. The Rowlatt Act a protest against the British-imposed salt tax.
c. The salt tax imposed by the British It was a significant nonviolent civil disobedience
d. The oppressive Zamindari system movement led by Mahatma Gandhi as part of India's
struggle for independence.

Option- C
Where did the Dandi March start?

a) Bihar
b) Delhi Salt Satyagraha March started on
12th March 1930 from Sabarmati
c) Mumbai Ashram and reached Dandi after 24
days on 6th April 1930.
d) Sabarmati Ashram
Option- D
Swaraj as a national demand was first made by:

a. Bal Gangadhar Tilak "Swaraj" as a national demand was first made by

b. Dadabhai Naoraji Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a prominent leader in the
Indian freedom struggle.
He popularized the concept of "Swaraj" (self-rule or
c. Jawaharlal Nehru self-governance) as the ultimate goal of India's
struggle for independence.
d. Chittaranjan Das Tilak's call for "Swaraj" gained widespread
popularity and inspired many Indians to join the
Option- A freedom movement.
 The Indian Independence League was set up by:

a. Jayaprakash Narayanb.
b. Aruna Asaf Ali
The Indian Independence League was set up
c. S.M. Joshi by Rash Behari Bose in 1942.
It was a political organization formed in
d. Rash Behari Bose Southeast Asia with the aim of gaining
India's independence from British rule.

Option- D
The Ghadar Party was founded by Lala Hardayal
in which year?

a. 1913 The Ghadar Party was founded by Lala

Hardayal in the year 1913.
b. 1920 The party was established with the objective
of fighting against British colonial rule in India

c. 1905 and gaining India's independence.

Lala Hardayal, along with other Indian

d. 1932
immigrants in the United States and Canada,
played a significant role in forming the Ghadar
Party.

Option- A
In which year Gopal Krishna Gokhale founded ‘Servants
of India Society’?

a. 1902
Gopal Krishna Gokhale founded the 'Servants of India
b. 1903 Society' in the year 1905.
The Servants of India Society played a significant role
c. 1904 in the Indian freedom movement and contributed to
the overall progress and development of the nation.
d. 1905
Option- D
The year of the foundation of the Women's Indian
Association (WIA) is?

a) 1947
The Women's Indian Association (WIA) was
b) 1937 founded in the year 1917.
c) 1927 Founded by Annie Besant, Margaret Cousins and
others, the Women's Indian Association (WIA)
d) 1917 was a forum to discuss and improve the
deplorable conditions of women in British India.

Option- d
 By whom was General Dyer shot dead ?

a) Khudiram
General Dyer was shot dead by Udham Singh.
b) Bhagat Singh Udham Singh was an Indian revolutionary who
sought to avenge the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
c) Madan Lal Dhingra Udham Singh assassinated General Dyer on March
13, 1940, in London, as an act of retribution for the
d) Udham Singh massacre.

Option- D
The famous Lucknow pact of 1916 was signed between ?

a) Mahatma Gandhi and Aga Khan

b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Muhammad Ali
Jinnah
c) Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah
d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Aga Khan

Option- B
• The Lucknow Pact was an agreement between the Indian National
Congress and the Muslim League at a joint session of both the
parties held in Lucknow in December 1916.
• The Lucknow Pact of 1916 is signed between Bal Gangadhar Tilak
and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
• As a result of this agreement, The Muslim League leaders agreed to
join the Congress movement demanding Indian independence.
• The Lucknow Pact was seen as a beacon of hope to Hindu–
Muslim unity.
In which year did Gandhi ji start Satyagraha movement ?

a) 1919 The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was the first

Satyagraha movement led by Gandhi in India and is
b) 1917 considered a historically important revolt in the

c) 1934 Indian Independence Movement. It was a farmer's

uprising that took place in Champaran district of
d) 1909 Bihar, India, during the British colonial period.

Option- B
Who addressed whom as the spiritual father of
Indian Nationalism?

a) Subhashchandra – Swami Bose Vivekanand

b) Lala Hardayal – Tilak
c) Bipinchandra Pal – Swami Dayanand Sarswati
d) Balgangadhar Tilak – Madan Mohan Malviya

Subhashchandra Bose addressed Swami

Vivekanand as the Spiritual father of
Option- A Indian Nationalism.
Where was the first All Indian Kisan Sabha formed?

a) Lucknow The first All-India Kisan Sabha was formed in Lucknow.

b) Patna The Kisan Sabha movement started in Bihar under the
leadership of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati who had
c) Calcutta formed in 1929 the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (BPKS)
in order to mobilize peasant grievances against the
d) Madras Zamindari attacks on their occupancy rights.

Option- A
When did Gandhiji give the slogan of ‘Swaraj in one year’?

a) During Round Table Conference

b) During Non-cooperation Movement
c) During Dandi March
d) During Civil Disobedience Movement
Mahatma Gandhi launched the Non-cooperation
movement on 5th September 1920 with the aim of
self-governance and obtaining full independence.
Option- B During the Non-cooperation Movement, Mahatma
Gandhi gave the slogan of Swaraj in one year.
The members of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Red Shirt
Movement were known as ?

a) Khidmatgars (Servants)
b) Insan-i-Khidmatgar (Servants of the people)
c) Khuda-i-Khidamatgar (Servants of God)
d) Angels of Freedom
The members of Khan Abdul Ghaffar
Khan’s Red Shirt Movement were
known as Khuda-i-Khidamatgar
Option- C (Servants of God).
The first great experiment of Gandhiji in 'Satyagraha'
took place in India?

a) Dandi
Gandhi's first major Satyagraha in
b) Champaran India was the Champaran Satyagraha,
c) South Africa which began in 1917.
It was a movement against the
d) Bardoli oppressive indigo plantation system
in the Champaran district of Bihar.

Option- B
The first great experiment of Gandhiji in 'Satyagraha'
took place in ?

a) Dandi The first great experiment of Mahatma Gandhi in

b) Champaran 'Satyagraha' took place in South Africa.
He initiated his first Satyagraha campaign in 1906 in
c) South Africa response to the discriminatory laws imposed on the
Indian community in South Africa
d) Bardoli

Option- C
The capital of India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi in
the year ?

a) 1905
The capital of India was shifted from Calcutta (now
b) 1911 Kolkata) to Delhi in the year 1911.
c) 1912 The announcement to shift the capital was made
during the Delhi Durbar held on December 12, 1911,
d) 1916 where King George V and Queen Mary were crowned
as Emperor and Empress of India.
Option- B
Which of the following led to the origin of Poona Pact?

a) Morley-Minto reforms Poona Pact was signed by Dr. BR Ambedkar

on 24 September 1932.
b) August Offer The Poona Pact provided for the abandoning
of the idea of separate electorates for the
c) Communal Award depressed classes.
The Poona Pact was accepted by the British
d) Simon Commission authorities as an amendment to the
Communal Award.
Option- C
The All India Forward Bloc party was founded by whom ?

a) Lal Bahadur Shastri

The All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) party
b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was founded by Netaji Subhas Chandra
Bose. It was established on May 3, 1939,
c) Jawaharlal Nehru during the Haripura Session of the Indian
National Congress.
d) Subhas Chandra Bose

Option- D
After which year, the struggle against British gradually
became a mass movement ?

a) 1910
b) 1915 After 1919 the struggle against British rule gradually
became a mass movement, involving peasants,
c) 1919 tribals, students and women in large numbers and
d) 1923 occasionally factory workers as well.

Option- A
Who among the following annulled the
Partition of Bengal ?

a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
The partition of Bengal was annulled in 1911
c) Lord Curzon by Lard Hardinge. It was done in response
to the Swadeshi movement's riots in protest
d) Lard Hardinge against the policy.

Option- D
Who was the president of Indian National Congress at
the time of Surat Session ?

a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

b) Bipin Chandra Pal At the time of the Surat Session of
the Indian National Congress in
c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale 1907, the president was Rash Behari
Ghosh.
d) Rash Behari Ghosh

Option- C
The Session of Congress of 1907 was held at the bank of
which river ?

a) Sabarmati The 1907 Surat session was held on the banks

of the Tapti river in Surat.
b) Loni The extremist camp was led by Lal Bal and
Pal, while the moderate camp was led by
c) Tapti Gopal Krishna Gokhle.

d) Narmada
Option- C
Who was the president of INC in Calcutta session 1906?

a) Dadabhai Naoroji
b) Surendra Nath Banerjea Calcutta session of 1906, under the

c) Bipin Chandra Pal leadership of Dadabhai Naoroji,

Congress adopted 'Swaraj' as the
Goal of Indian people.
d) Rash Behari Bose

Option- A
In which of the following places, Hindu Mahasabha was for
the first time organized in 1915 ?

a) Allahabad
b) Haridwar The Hindu Mahasabha was first organized in 1915 in
Haridwar, India. It was founded by Madan Mohan
c) Varanasi Malaviya and other prominent leaders with the aim
of promoting Hindu identity and interests. The
d) None of These organization played a significant role in Indian
politics during the pre-independence era and post-

Option- B independence as well.

 In which of the following movements, Vande Mataram
was adopted slogan for agitation?

a) Non-cooperation Movement in 1920

b) Revolt of 1857
c) Swadeshi Movement
d) Quit India Movement in 1942
The slogan of Vande Matram was first adopted during
Swadeshi Movement that was a part of the Indian
Independence Movement. This movement is also

Option- C referred to as Anti-Bengal Partition Movement. It took

place between 1905 and 1911 when Lord Curzon
partitioned the Bengal province into two.
Where and when did Mahatma Gandhi first use his method
of hunger strike?

a) Ahmedabad Strike, 1918

b) Rowlatt Satyagraha, 1919
c) Non-Cooperation Movement, 1920-22
d) Bardoli Satyagraha In the Ahmedabad strike Mahatma Gandhi made his
first use of hunger strike as a weapon. In 1918
Mahatma Gandhi intervened in a dispute between
Option- A the workers and mill-owners of Ahmedabad. He
advised the workers to go on strike and to demand a
35 per cent increase in wages.
Swadeshi Movement was known by which name in
deltaic Andhra?

a) Home Rule Movement

b) Andhra Unrest Movement In deltaic Andhra (present-day Andhra
Pradesh), the Swadeshi Movement was known
as the "Vandemataram Movement." The
c) Vandemataram Movement movement was a part of the broader Swadeshi
Movement that took place during the Indian
d) Satyagraha Movement freedom struggle. "Vandemataram" is a
patriotic slogan that means "I bow to thee,
Mother," and it became one of the rallying cries
of the freedom movement.
Option- C
Who was the viceroy when Delhi became the capital of
British India?

a) Lord Mountbatten Delhi was formally inaugurated as the capital of

b) Lord Curzon British India by Viceroy and Governor-General of
India, Lord Irwin, on February 13, 1931. Emperor of
c) Lord Harding India, George V, had laid the foundation stone of
Delhi on December 12, 1911. Before it was shifted,
d) Lord Irwin the Viceroy of India was Lord Hardinge, who said in a
letter that the Great Britain should move its empire
capital from Calcutta to Delhi.
Option- C
Who is called "The Grand Old Man of India"?

a) Subhas Chandra Bose The title "The Grand Old Man of India" is
attributed to Dadabhai Naoroji. Dadabhai Naoroji
b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was an important figure in the Indian freedom
struggle and a prominent leader in the Indian
c) Dadabhai Naoroji National Congress. He was an early political
leader who tirelessly worked for India's
d) Jawaharlal Nehru independence and the welfare of its people.

Option- C
Who founded the ‘India House’ in London on 1
July 1905 ?

a) Shyamji Krishna Varma

b) Bhikaji Cama Shyamji Krishna Varma
founded the Indian House
c) Veer Savarkar in 1905.
d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Option- A
Which of the following was a revolutionary who later
turned into a yogi and a philosopher?

a) Bhagat Singh
Aurobindo Ghosh was an Indian philosopher,
b) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist. He joined the
Indian movement for independence from
c) Aurobindo Ghosh British rule, till 1910 was one of its influential
leaders, and then became a spiritual reformer,
introducing his visions on human progress.
d) Chandrashekhar Azad

Option- C