Indian National Movement GK Questions Answers for UKSSSC
By Vikash Suyal | General knowledge | May 23, 2018
Indian National Movement GK Questions and Answers
- The sleeping gaint of Asia has woken up , and no power on earth can stop him now’. Who said it and for whom ? ---Lenin, for the textile workers who came out on streets in protest against Tilak’s transportation in July, 1908
- The partition of Bengal was revoked by the British Government in the year : ---1991
- Initially an associate of Gandhi, he left the Congress, broke off with Gandhi and launched a radical social movement called the ‘Self Respect Movement’. Who was he ?---EVR Naicker
- It led to the estrangement of M.A Jinnah, who called it a ‘parting of ways’ with the Congress, went back to the separate electorates and formulated his fourteen points. The reference here is to : --- The Nehru Report
- Who was the Congress President when India became free ? ---B Kriplani
- In which year did the British Government announce for the first time domination status as the goal of British policy in India ?---1929
- The formation of an interim Government set up on September 2, 1946 was first envisaged by : --- Cabinet Mission Plan
- The most important pre- Congress nationalist organization was the Indian Association which was founded by : S.N. Banerjee and Anand Mhan Bose in : ---1876
- Moderate politics was criticized in 1893-94 in a series of articles entitled ‘New Lamp for Old’ written by : ---Aurobindo Ghosh
- The organizational change to turn the Congress Party into a real party was made for the first time in: ---1920
- In which movement did Mahatma Gandhi make first use of hunger strike as a weapon? ---Ahmedabad strike, 1918
- Which song was so dear to Gandhiji that he wrote ‘Thatone song is enough to sustain me even if iwereto forget the Bhagwad Gita’ ? ---Vaishnava Jana to Tene Kahiye
- To sound the order of retreat just when public enthusiasm was reaching the boiling point was noting short of a national calamity. Who said and in what context? ---Subash Chandra Bose regarding the unilateral withdrawal of the Non-cooperation Movement by Gandhiji in February, 1922
- When did Gandhiji first coin the tern ‘Harijan’ for the so called ‘untouchables’ in India. ---1932
- Who declared ‘The only hope for India is from the masses . The upper classes are physically and morally dead? ---Swami Vivekanand
- Who was the Congress President when India became free? ---B. Kripalani
- In 1905 who raised the demand for swarajya or self-government within the British Empire from the Congress platform ---K. Gokhale
- When Congress ministries resigned in 1939, what day was celebrated by Jinnah as the ‘Day of Deliverance’ ? ---December 2, 1939
- What was the ultimate goal of Gandhi’ Salt Satyagrah ? ---‘Puna Swaraj’ for India
- In November 1945 three former INA officers were charged with waging war against the king –emperor .Who were they ? ---Col Shah Nawaz ,Capt .Sehghal and Lt.Dhillon
- The partition of Bengal was revoked by the British Government in : ---1911
- When the Simon Commission was appointed ,who the Viceroy of India ? ---Lord Irwin
- Who proposed the preamble before the drafting committee of the Constitution ? ---Jawaharlal Nehru
- The two main leaders of the Swarajist party were : ---Motilal Nehru and C.R.Dass
- Hunter Committee was appointed by the British to probe into : ---Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy
- Cabinet Mission was sent to India to : ---Establish a nationalgoverment and to work out a constitutional arrangement for the transfer of power
- Hunter Committee was appointed by the British to probe into the: ---Create a wedge between Hindus and Muslims
- Who was the President of the Congress at the time of Moderate Extremist split ? ---Rashbihari Ghosh
- ‘The sleeping gaint of Asia has woken up and no power on Earth can stop him now’. Who said it and for whom ? ---Lenin, for the textile workers who came out on the streets in protest against Tilk’s transportation in July ,1908.
- M .A.Jinnah and a section of the Muslim League were willing to give up separate electorate in favour of a joint electorate (with certain conditions) at the time of which commission/mission / : ---Simon Commission
- It led to the estrangementof M.A. Jinnah, who called it a ‘parting of ways’ with the Congress, went back to the separate electorates and formulated his famous fourteen points .The reference here is to : ---The Nehru Report
- In which period did the left wing in the Congress emerge under S.C.Bose and Nehru’s initiative?---In the post-non-cooperation period
- The Quit India campaign was launched by the National Congress after the failure of : ---Cripps Mission
- The first attempt at introducing a representative and popular element in the government of India was made through the :---Indian Councils Act, 1909
- During the Swadeshi movement, of the several forms of struggle thrown up by the movement, which one met with greatest success in the course of the movement ? ---Boycott of foreign goods
- ‘Out of the sands of India I shall create a movement which would be larger than the Congressitself’ .It was said by :---Mahatma Gandhi
- Who said on the death of Tilak ‘My strongerbulwark is gone’? ---Mahatma Gandhi
- In which district is Dandi, associated with the March of Gandhi located? ---Navsari
- The first President of Muslim League was : ---Salimullah Khan
- Which leader encouraged the formation of Congress Socialist Party but he himself was not its member ? ---Jawahar Lal Nehru
- With which event did the Civil Disobedience Movement start ? ---Breaking Salt Law
- Which national party did not cooperate in the Quit India Movement of 1942 ? ---Communist
- The main reason for criticizing the Gandhi-Irwin Pact was that : ---It lacked the provision of saving the hangings of freedom fighters
- Which socialist leader ran away from the Hazaribagh prison and assumed the leadership of Quit India Movement ?---Jaiprakesh Narian
- Key leadersof Khilafat Movement were : ---Maulana Mohammad Ali and Maulana Shaukat Ali