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1. Which of the following newspapers/journals was from Maharashtra?

(A) Sarathi
(B) Sandhya
(C) Kranti
(D) Atmashakti
Answer: (C) Kranti

2. Who among the following was not a member of the Congress Socialist Party, although he
encouraged and blessed its formation?
(A) Jayaprakash Narayan
(B) Acharya Narendra Dev
(C) Achyuta Patwardhan
(D) Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: (D) Jawaharlal Nehru

3. Who designed the National Flag of India, adopted by the Constituent Assembly on July 21, 1947?
(A) Abanindranath Tagore
(B) Abul Kalam Azad
(C) Badr-ud-din-Tyabji
(D) Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: (C) Badr-ud-din-Tyabji

4. All the established political parties and groups, except two, boycotted Simon Commission. Which
were those two?
(i) Hindu Mahasabha
(ii) Justice Party
(iii) Muslim League
(iv) Punjab Unionists
(A) iv and ii
(B) iii and iv
(C) ii and iii
(D) i and ii
Answer: (A) iv and ii

5. Which of the following books was not written by Swami Dayanand Saraswati?
(A) Satyartha Bhumika
(B) Veda Bhashya Bhumika
(C) Satyartha Prakash
(D) Veda Prakash
Answer: (D) Veda Prakash

6. The British officer who defeated Mir Qasim in a series of battles of 1763 was?
(A) Colonel Malleson

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(B) Colonel Holwell

(C) Major Hector Munro
(D) Major Adams
Answer: (D) Major Adams

7. Which of the following is correctly paired?

(A) Krishna Patrika - M.G Ranade
(B) Quarterly Journal - Lajpat Rai
(C) Panjbee - T. Prakasam and M. Krishna Rao
(D) Bharata Mats - Ajit Singh
Answer: (D) Bharata Mats - Ajit Singh

8. Who said “The Congress movement was neither inspired by the people nor devised or planned by
them”?
(A) Lord Curzon
(B) Lord Dufferin
(C) Lala Lajpat Rai
(D) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
Answer: (C) Lala Lajpat Rai

9. What is the name of the Bengali monthly founded and edited by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in
1873?
(A) Bangadarshana
(B) Bengalee
(C) Soma Prakasha
(D) Bangaduta
Answer: (A) Bangadarshana

10. During which period Gandhiji remained aloof from direct politics and concentrated his energies on
constructive programmes?
(A) 1924–1927
(B) 1928–1932
(C) 1919–1922
(D) 1922–1924
Answer: (D) 1922–1924

11. Which of the following statements is/are correct about the Civil Disobedience Movement?
(i) There was a discernible absence of Hindu-Muslim unity.
(ii) The movement received massive business support.
(iii) There was large-scale women's participation.
(iv) From September 1930 onwards, the movement began to decline.
(A) (ii) and (iii)
(B) (ii) and (iv)

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(C) (i) and (ii)

(D) All of the above
Answer: (D) All of the above

12. At the time of which of the following events did Jawaharlal Nehru say: “Never before in history
had such unified sentiments been manifested by various divergent sections of the population”?
(A) INA Trial
(B) REN Mutiny
(C) Quit India Movement
(D) Imphal Campaign of the INA
Answer: (A) INA Trial

13. Which of the following organizations/persons did not approve of the Quit India Movement?
(A) B.R. Ambedkar
(B) Hindu Mahasabha
(C) Muslim League
(D) All of the above
Answer: (D) All of the above

14. On the basis of which formula did Gandhiji, in April 1944, propose talks with Jinnah, which Jinnah
refused to accept?
(A) Rajaji Formula
(B) 3rd June Plan
(C) August Offer
(D) Wavell Plan
Answer: (A) Rajaji Formula

15. Who among the following founded the Independent Labour Party in 1936?
(A) Jagjivan Ram
(B) Jayaprakash Narayan
(C) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
(D) M.C. Rajah
Answer: (C) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

16. Lord Macaulay was associated with:

(A) Codification of Laws
(B) Permanent Settlement
(C) Reforms in the Army
(D) Abolition of Sati
Answer: (A) Codification of Laws

17. The British Government introduced the portfolio system for the first time in:
(A) 1861
(B) 1892

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(C) 1853
(D) 1858
Answer: (A) 1861

18. Which region in India provided the best quality saltpeter and opium to the Europeans?
(A) Bihar
(B) Malabar
(C) Coromandel
(D) Gujarat
Answer: (C) Coromandel

19. When and by whom were the Portuguese driven out of Hugli in Bengal?
(A) 1650 - Prince Murad
(B) 1666 - Prince Shuja
(C) 1625 - Shaista Khan
(D) 1631 - Qasim Khan
Answer: (D) 1631 - Qasim Khan

20. What was the early capital of the Portuguese in India?

(A) Culient
(B) Cannanore
(C) Goa
(D) Cochin
Answer: (D) Cochin

21. Who among the following Britishers was associated with the introduction of the Mahalwari
System?
(A) William Carey
(B) Sir Alexander Cunningham
(C) R.M. Bird
(D) Sir John Lawrence
Answer: (C) R.M. Bird

22. Which of the following is correctly paired?

(A) Establishment of Agricultural Research Institute at Pusa – Lord Minto
(B) Rowlatt Act – Lord Chelmsford
(C) Anti-Partition and Swadeshi Movement – Lord Lansdowne
(D) Factory Act of 1891 – Lord Curzon
Answer: (B) Rowlatt Act – Lord Chelmsford

23. Who made the ‘Dipawali Declaration’ and when?

(A) Gandhi – 1930
(B) Subhas Bose – 1941
(C) Lord Irwin – 1929

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(D) Lord Linlithgow – 1940

Answer: (C) Lord Irwin – 1929

24. Which session of the Indian National Congress had 1889 delegates?
(A) Fifth Session at Bombay
(B) Sixth Session at Calcutta
(C) Third Session at Madras
(D) Fourth Session at Allahabad
Answer: (A) Fifth Session at Bombay

25. Who founded the Indian Reforms Association in 1870?

(A) Keshab Chandra Sen
(B) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(C) Ram Mohan Roy
(D) Debendranath Tagore
Answer: (A) Keshab Chandra Sen

26. When and by whom was the 'Nair Service Society' founded?
(A) 1914 - M. Padmanabha Pillai
(B) 1916 - K. Ramakrishna Pillai
(C) 1905 - Narayana Guru
(D) 1910 - T.M. Nair
Answer: (A) 1914 - M. Padmanabha Pillai

27. Keshab Chandra Sen:

(i) Adopted a radical and comprehensive scheme of social reforms.
(ii) Infused the concept of Bhakti into Brahmoism
(iii) Influenced the socio-religious reformers in Bombay and Madras
(iv) Opposed the introduction of western education in India.
(A) i, iii and iv
(B) ii, iii and iv
(C) i, ii and iii
(D) All of them
Answer: (C) i, ii and iii

28. Which of the following sections remained at a distance during Swadeshi Movement of 1905?
(A) Students
(B) Intelligentsia
(C) Women
(D) Peasantry
Answer: (D) Peasantry

29. Who said on Gandhiji's death "The light has gone out of our lives"?
(A) S. Radhakrishnan

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(B) Bidhan Chandra Roy

(C) J. L. Nehru
(D) Rajendra Prasad
Answer: (C) J. L. Nehru

30. Who was the last Governor-General in India?

(A) Lord Mountbatten
(B) Chakraborty Rajagopalachari
(C) Lord William Bentinck
(D) Lord Canning
Answer: (B) Chakraborty Rajagopalachari

31. Who led the peasant movement in Oudh during the Non-cooperation movement?
(A) Madari Pasi
(B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(C) Mahatma Gandhi
(D) Baba Ramchandra
Answer: (D) Baba Ramchandra

32. The Editor of the paper 'The Hindu' was:

(A) S. Satyamurti
(B) T. K. Madhavan
(C) S. Subramania
(D) Kasturi Ranga Iyengar
Answer: (D) Kasturi Ranga Iyengar

33. Tamil journal 'Kudi Arasu' was founded by whom?

(A) T.M. Nair
(B) E.V. Ramaswamy Periyar
(C) Anna Durai
(D) P. Tyagaraja Ehetti
Answer: (B) E.V. Ramaswamy Periyar

34. Who was the founder of 'Gajapati Dynasty' of Orissa?

(A) Prataparudra
(B) Vidyadhara
(C) Purushottam
(D) Kapilendra
Answer: (D) Kapilendra

35. What was the primary aim of the Akali movement which rose in Punjab in the 1920s?
(A) To streamline the management of the gurudwara of Sikh Shrines
(B) To purge Sikhism of its superstitious accretions and irrational incrustations
(C) To voice the political grievances of the Sikhs

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(D) To bring about modernization in the Sikh social customs

Answer: (A) To streamline the management of the gurudwara of Sikh Shrines

36. The first tribal leader who was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and his ideology was:
(A) Alluri Sitaram Raju
(B) Thakkar Bapa
(C) Jadonang
(D) Rani Gaidinliu
Answer: (D) Rani Gaidinliu

37. When was the All-India Kisan Sabha formed?

(A) 1928
(B) 1936
(C) 1991
(D) 1920
Answer: (B) 1936

38. The Justice Party movement in Madras merged with the:

(A) Dravida Kazhagam
(B) Self-Respect League
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) Depressed Classes League
Answer: (C) Both (A) and (B)

39. The first free university in India, completely independent of the Government and receiving no
grant from it was:
(A) Women's University, Pune
(B) Benaras Hindu University
(C) Vishva Bharati, Shantiniketan
(D) Aligarh Muslim University
Answer: (C) Vishva Bharati, Shantiniketan

40. The first venture of Gandhi in all-India politics was the:

(A) Rowlatt Satyagraha
(B) Non-Cooperation Movement
(C) Dandi March
(D) Champaran Movement
Answer: (A) Rowlatt Satyagraha

41. Who was the Governor-General when Sind was annexed?

(A) Lord Dalhousie
(B) Lord Hardinge-I
(C) Lord Auckland

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(D) Lord Ellenborough

Answer: (D) Lord Ellenborough

42. The Indian Association played an important role in arousing national consciousness through the
formation of the:
(A) Indian National Conference
(B) British India Association
(C) Indian National Congress
(D) Bengal British Indian Society
Answer: (A) Indian National Conference

43. Who was the founder of secret society Abhinav Bharat?

(A) Ganesh Savarkar
(B) Damodar Chapekar
(C) Naren Bhattacharji
(D) Jatin Mukherji
Answer: (A) Ganesh Savarkar

44. Which of the following is correctly matched?

(A) Foundation of the Forward Bloc – 1936
(B) Foundation of the Communist Party of India – 1939
(C) Formation of the All India Kisan Sabha – 1935
(D) Foundation of the Congress Socialist Party – 1934
Answer: (D) Foundation of the Congress Socialist Party – 1934

45. Who is generally acknowledged as the pioneer of local self-Government in modern India?
(A) M.K. Gandhi
(B) Curzon
(C) Ripon
(D) Hardinge-I
Answer: (C) Ripon

46. Who was the first to attempt decentralization of financial administration?

(A) Curzon
(B) Lytton
(C) Ripon
(D) Mayo
Answer: (D) Mayo

47. Who confessed the following way? “We have no right to seize Sind. Yet we shall do so and a very
big advantageous, useful, human piece of rascality it will be.”
(A) Sir Charles Napier
(B) Major James Outram
(C) Lord Auckland

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(D) Lord Ellenborough

Answer: (A) Sir Charles Napier

48. Which of the following were the original founders of the Theosophical Society?
(i) Madam H.P. Blavatsky
(ii) Mrs. Annie Besant
(iii) Colonel H.S. Olcott
(iv) Colonel O.P. Walburn
(A) i and iii
(B) iii and iv
(C) i and ii
(D) ii and iii
Answer: (A) i and iii

49. Subhas Chandra Bose fought the presidential elections in 1939 on the ground that:
(A) He was opposed to Gandhiji
(B) He favored an aggressive policy which was opposed by the Congress Leaders
(C) He did not like the nomination of Sitaramayya
(D) He pleaded for elections instead of nominations
Answer: (D) He pleaded for elections instead of nominations

50. Who among the following capitalists served as an AICC treasurer for many years and went to jail in
1930?
(A) J.R.D Tata
(B) Walchand Hirachand
(C) G.D. Birla
(D) Jamnalal Bajaj
Answer: (D) Jamnalal Bajaj

51. Who among the following played an important role in the signing of the Gandhi Irwin Pact?
(i) Motilal Nehru
(ii) Tej Bahadur Sapru
(iii) Madanmohan Malaviya
(iv) Jayakar
(v) Chintamani
(A) ii and iii
(B) iv and v
(C) i and ii
(D) ii and iv
Answer: (D) ii and iv

52. Which of the following is not one of the causes responsible for the rise of money lenders in British
India?

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(A) New educational system

(B) Commercialization of agriculture
(C) New revenue policy
(D) New legal system
Answer: (A) New educational system

53. Who described Bal Gangadhar Tilak as the 'Father of Indian Unrest'?
(A) Minto-II
(B) Chelmsford
(C) Valentine Chirol
(D) Disraeli
Answer: (C) Valentine Chirol

54. Who was mainly responsible for introducing the Ryotwari system in Madras?
(A) Thomas Munro
(B) John Lawrence
(C) Macartney
(D) Elphinstone
Answer: (A) Thomas Munro

55. Which of the following statements is/are true about the Vernacular Press Act, 1878?
(i) It was passed by Lord Mayo.
(ii) It came to be known as the "Gagging Act".
(iii) It liberated the Indian Press from restrictions.
(iv) It was repealed in 1882 by the Ripon Govt.
(A) (i) and (iii)
(B) (iii) and (iv)
(C) (ii) and (iv)
(D) (i) and (ii)
Answer: (C) (ii) and (iv)

56. Indenture regulations which bound the artisans of Eastern India to sell their products exclusively
to the English company from the late 18th century were known as:
(A) Khatbandi
(B) Kamiya
(C) Dadni
(D) Damdupat
Answer: (C) Dadni

57. During whose period did the European soldiers stage the so-called 'White Mutiny' in India?
(A) Mayo
(B) Ripon
(C) Dalhousie

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(D) Canning
Answer: (D) Canning

58. Who said: "This orderly disciplined anarchy should go, and if as a result there is complete
lawlessness I would risk it"?
(A) Rajagopalachari
(B) Vallabhbhai Patel
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: (D) Mahatma Gandhi

59. Which of the following manuscripts, containing miniature paintings, reveals a sense of realism and
authenticity witnessed or experienced by the painters themselves?
(A) Jamiut-Tawarikh
(B) Tariq-i-Alfi
(C) Timur Namah
(D) Akbar Namah
Answer: (B) Tariq-i-Alfi

60. Who was the founder of the Sultanate of Madurai?

(A) Nusrat Shah
(B) Dilwar Khan
(C) Jalaluddin Ahsan
(D) Hussain Shah
Answer: (C) Jalaluddin Ahsan

61. What is 'Asthavana'?

(A) One-third of the produce of the land
(B) House-tax
(C) Land revenue department
(D) A type of rice
Answer: (C) Land revenue department

62. The lower castes tried to assert themselves by borrowing and imitating customs and manners of
the upper castes. This was termed as Sanskritisation by:
(A) B.R. Ambedkar
(B) M.N. Srinivas
(C) M.K. Gandhi
(D) Bernard Cohn
Answer: (B) M.N. Srinivas

63. The Whitley Commission was concerned with:

(A) Public Health
(B) Reorganization of Civil Service

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(C) Labour
(D) Education
Answer: (C) Labour

64. Which of the following results of the Zamindari System was not an advantage to the British?
(A) Permanent fixation of revenue demand
(B) Provision of financial security
(C) Creation of political allies
(D) Minimization of revenue administrative expenditure
Answer: (A) Permanent fixation of revenue demand

65. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?

(A) Kanpur - Brigadier General Neil
(B) Lucknow - Major General Havelock
(C) Banaras - Sir Colin Campbell
(D) Jhansi - Sir Hugh Rose
Answer: (D) Jhansi - Sir Hugh Rose

66. Which of the following groups did not get separate electorates by the Act of 1935?
(A) Europeans
(B) Depressed Classes
(C) Anglo-Indians
(D) Indian Christians
Answer: (B) Depressed Classes

67. When and where was the song 'Vande Mataram' first sung (by Rabindranath Tagore)?
(A) At Santiniketan Ashrams in 1901
(B) On July 19, 1905 at Calcutta when the partition of Bengal was formally announced
(C) At Calcutta Session of the I.N. Congress in 1896
(D) At Calcutta Town Hall on August 07, 1905
Answer: (C) At Calcutta Session of the I.N. Congress in 1896

68. The First National Planning Committee was constituted by the Congress in 1938 under the
presidency of:
(A) Subhas Chandra Bose
(B) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(C) Ambalal Sarabhai
(D) Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: (A) Subhas Chandra Bose

69. The historic Lucknow session (1916) of the I.N.C. was presided over by:
(A) Madan Mohan Malaviya
(B) Rasbehari Bose
(C) Ambika Charan Mozumdar

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(D) R.N. Madhukar

Answer: (C) Ambika Charan Mozumdar

70. Who moved a resolution at the Congress session in 1918 demanding equal eligibility for voting
rights for both men and women?
(A) Annie Besant
(B) Basanti Devi
(C) Sarala Debi Choudhurani
(D) Sarojini Naidu
Answer: (A) Annie Besant

71. Who observed: "The Congress (INC) is, in reality, a civil war without arms"?
(A) M. Ali Jinnah
(B) Lord Curzon
(C) Lord Dufferin
(D) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Answer: (D) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

72. Who acted as President of the Indian National Congress for six consecutive years?
(A) Motilal Nehru
(B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) Abul Kalam Azad
Answer: (D) Abul Kalam Azad

73. Who among the following did not attend the first session of the Indian National Congress?
(A) Surendranath Banerjee
(B) Badaruddin Tyabji
(C) Womesh Chandra Banerjee
(D) K.T. Telang
Answer: (A) Surendranath Banerjee

74. After the Surat split in 1907, the second split in the Congress took place in 1918 on the issue of:
(A) Both (A) and (B)
(B) Montague Declaration
(C) Lucknow Pact
(D) Election of Mrs. Annie Besant as President of the INC (1917)
Answer: (B) Montague Declaration

75. The Public Postal System in India was started in which year?
(A) 1848
(B) 1839
(C) 1837

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(D) 1838
Answer: (C) 1837

76. Which of the following classes did not participate in the Revolt of 1857?
(i) Money lenders
(ii) Merchants
(iii) Modern intelligentsia
(iv) Old Zamindars
(v) Urban-based absentee landlords
(A) (i), (iii), (iv) and (v)
(B) (i), (ii), (iii) and (v)
(C) (i), (ii), (iv) and (v)
(D) (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v)
Answer: (B) (i), (ii), (iii) and (v)

77. Which of the following movements were 'Temple Entry' movements organized in the early 20th
century?
(A) Munshiganj Kali temple Satyagraha in Bengal (1929)
(B) All of the above
(C) Vaikkam Satyagraha 1924-25
(D) Guruvayur Satyagraha (1931–33) in Malabar
Answer: (B) All of the above

78. Who gave Bombay to Charles II of England as a dowry gift for his marriage with Catherine of
Braganza?
(A) Dutch
(B) Danes
(C) Spanish
(D) Portuguese
Answer: (D) Portuguese

79. The Congress president who conducted negotiations with Cripps in 1942 and Wavell at the Simla
Conference was:
(A) J.B. Kripalani
(B) C. Rajagopalachari
(C) Abul Kalam Azad
(D) Jawahar Lal Nehru
Answer: (C) Abul Kalam Azad

80. Which one of the following adumbrated principles and constitutional provisions which were later
incorporated in the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms?
(A) Lucknow Pact
(B) Poona Pact

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(C) Nehru Report

(D) Wavell Plan
Answer: (A) Lucknow Pact

81. What is the chronological sequence of the following happenings?

(i) August Declaration
(ii) Lucknow Pact
(iii) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
(iv) Kheda Satyagraha
(A) ii, iv, i and iii
(B) ii, i, iv and iii
(C) iv, ii, iii and i
(D) iii, i, ii and iv
Answer: (B) ii, i, iv and iii

82. Arrange the following events in chronological order:

(i) Champaran Satyagraha
(ii) Launching of the Khilafat Movement
(iii) Reunion of the Congress
(iv) Nagpur session of the Congress
(A) i, iii, iv and ii
(B) i, iv, iii and ii
(C) iii, i, ii and iv
(D) iii, i, iv and ii
Answer: (C) iii, i, ii and iv

83. Arrange the following events in chronological order:

1. Death of Bal Gangadhar Tilak

2. Nagpur session of the Congress

3. The Moplah Uprising

4. The inauguration of Visva Bharati at Santiniketan

(A) 2, 1, 3, 4
(B) 3, 2, 4, 1
(C) 4, 3, 2, 1
(D) 3, 4, 2, 1
Answer: (A) 2, 1, 3, 4

84. Whom did B.G. Tilak call 'the Diamond of India'?

(A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(B) Lala Lajpat Rai

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(C) Rabindranath Tagore

(D) Dadabhai Naoroji
Answer: (A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

85. Mahatma Gandhi gave the title of 'Sardar' to Vallabhbhai Patel for his great organizational skill in:
(A) The Salt Satyagraha
(B) The Individual Satyagraha
(C) The Kheda Satyagraha
(D) The Bardoli Satyagraha
Answer: (D) The Bardoli Satyagraha

86. When were the silkworms introduced into the Byzantine Empire from China, adversely affecting
India’s already declining foreign trade?
(A) 615 AD
(B) 351 AD
(C) 451 AD
(D) 551 AD
Answer: (D) 551 AD

87. Where do we find the three phases — Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic — in sequence?
(A) Godavari Valley
(B) Kashmir Valley
(C) Belan Valley
(D) Krishna Valley
Answer: (C) Belan Valley

88. Which of the following is not a principal tool of the Early Stone Age?
(A) Cleaver
(B) Chopper
(C) Scrapper
(D) Handaxe
Answer: (C) Scrapper

89. What is the name of the newspaper published by the Indian Muslim League?
(A) Star of India
(B) Dawn
(C) Quam
(D) Inquilab
Answer: (A) Star of India

90. In which year did the Indian capitalist class organize itself under the banner of FICCI?
(A) 1930
(B) 1932
(C) 1922

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(D) 1927
Answer: (D) 1927

91. Which of the following women’s organizations came into existence in 1927?
(A) Bharat Stree Mahamandal
(B) All India Women’s Conference
(C) Women’s Indian Association
(D) National Council of Women in India
Answer: (B) All India Women’s Conference

92. Who described the Quit India Movement (1942) as "by far the most serious rebellion since 1857"?
(A) Chiang Kai-shek
(B) Winston Churchill
(C) Viceroy Lord Linlithgow
(D) Franklin Roosevelt
Answer: (C) Viceroy Lord Linlithgow

93. In which of the following movements did prominent women leaders like Sucheta Kripalani and
Aruna Asaf Ali take the responsibility of coordinating the movement in the face of unprecedented
police repression?
(A) Quit India Movement
(B) Civil Disobedience Movement
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) RIN Mutiny
Answer: (A) Quit India Movement

94. Who was the first Indian woman to become the President of Indian National Congress?
(A) Sarojini Naidu
(B) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
(C) Aruna Asaf Ali
(D) Sucheta Kripalani
Answer: (A) Sarojini Naidu

95. Who among the following organized the defense in the trial of I.N.A. Officers?
(A) Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew
(B) Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar
(C) Bhulabhai Desai
(D) Madan Mohan Malaviya
Answer: (C) Bhulabhai Desai

96. The Indian National Army (I.N.A.) came into existence in 1943 in:
(A) Then Burma
(B) Then Malaya
(C) Singapore

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(D) Japan
Answer: (C) Singapore

97. Who announced Queen Victoria as the Crown of India?

(A) Lord Lytton
(B) Lord Hastings
(C) Lord Wellesley
(D) Lord Cornwallis
Answer: (A) Lord Lytton

98. Who gave the slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad'?

(A) Subhas Chandra Bose
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Bhagat Singh
(D) Hasrat Mohani
Answer: (C) Bhagat Singh

99. Who founded 'Swadeshi Bhandar' in 1897?

(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Bipin Chandra Pal
(C) Sarala Devi
(D) Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: (D) Rabindranath Tagore

100. The 'Gadar' Party was founded in 1913 at:

(A) Calcutta
(B) San Francisco
(C) Bombay
(D) Punjab
Answer: (B) San Francisco

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