Indian National Movement GK Questions and Answers

1. 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


2. The partition of Bengal was revoked by the British Government in the year : ---1991


3. 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


4. 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


5. Who was the Congress President when India became free ? ---B Kriplani


6. In which year did the British Government announce for the first time domination status as the goal of British policy in India ?---1929


7. The formation of an interim Government set up on September 2, 1946 was first envisaged by : --- Cabinet Mission Plan


8. The most important pre- Congress nationalist organization was the Indian Association which was founded by : S.N. Banerjee and Anand Mhan Bose in : ---1876


9. Moderate politics was criticized in 1893-94 in a series of articles entitled ‘New Lamp for Old’ written by : ---Aurobindo Ghosh


10. The organizational change to turn the Congress Party into a real party was made for the first time in: ---1920


11. In which movement did Mahatma Gandhi make first use of hunger strike as a weapon? ---Ahmedabad strike, 1918


12. 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


13. 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


14. When did Gandhiji first coin the tern ‘Harijan’ for the so called ‘untouchables’ in India. ---1932


15. Who declared ‘The only hope for India is from the masses . The upper classes are physically and morally dead? ---Swami Vivekanand


16. Who was the Congress President when India became free? ---B. Kripalani


17. In 1905 who raised the demand for swarajya or self-government within the British Empire from the Congress platform ---K. Gokhale


18. When Congress ministries resigned in 1939, what day was celebrated by Jinnah as the ‘Day of Deliverance’ ? ---December 2, 1939


19. What was the ultimate goal of Gandhi’ Salt Satyagrah ? ---‘Puna Swaraj’ for India


20. 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


21. The partition of Bengal was revoked by the British Government in : ---1911


22. When the Simon Commission was appointed ,who the Viceroy of India ? ---Lord Irwin


23. Who proposed the preamble before the drafting committee of the Constitution ? ---Jawaharlal Nehru


24. The two main leaders of the Swarajist party were : ---Motilal Nehru and C.R.Dass


25. Hunter Committee was appointed by the British to probe into : ---Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy


26. Cabinet Mission was sent to India to : ---Establish a nationalgoverment and to work out a constitutional arrangement for the transfer of power


27. Hunter Committee was appointed by the British to probe into the: ---Create a wedge between Hindus and Muslims


28. Who was the President of the Congress at the time of Moderate Extremist split ? ---Rashbihari Ghosh


29. ‘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.


30. 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


31. 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


32. 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


33. The Quit India campaign was launched by the National Congress after the failure of : ---Cripps Mission


34. The first attempt at introducing a representative and popular element in the government of India was made through the :---Indian Councils Act, 1909


35. 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


36. ‘Out of the sands of India I shall create a movement which would be larger than the Congressitself’ .It was said by :---Mahatma Gandhi


37. Who said on the death of Tilak ‘My strongerbulwark is gone’? ---Mahatma Gandhi


38. In which district is Dandi, associated with the March of Gandhi located? ---Navsari


39. The first President of Muslim League was : ---Salimullah Khan


40. Which leader encouraged the formation of Congress Socialist Party but he himself was not its member ? ---Jawahar Lal Nehru


41. With which event did the Civil Disobedience Movement start ? ---Breaking Salt Law


42. Which national party did not cooperate in the Quit India Movement of 1942 ? ---Communist


43. The main reason for criticizing the Gandhi-Irwin Pact was that :  ---It lacked the provision of saving the hangings of freedom fighters


44. Which socialist leader ran away from the Hazaribagh prison and assumed the leadership of Quit India Movement ?---Jaiprakesh Narian


45. Key leadersof Khilafat Movement were : ---Maulana Mohammad Ali and  Maulana Shaukat Ali