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Indian freedom Struggle

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“I am restless I thirst for the distant, the far- away” Whose words are these?

  1. Jawaharlal Nehru

  2. Subhas Chand Bose

  3. Rabindranath Tagore

  4. Abdul Kalam Azad


Correct Option: C

Rabindranath Tagore was a protagonist of

  1. Liberalism

  2. Neo-Hinduism

  3. Bengali Chauvinism

  4. Philosophy of renunciation


Correct Option: A

Which one of the following leaders of modern India is wrongly paired with the year of his birth?

  1. Rabindranath Tagore-1861

  2. Mahatama Gandhi-1869

  3. Jawaharlal Nehru-1889

  4. M.A. Jinnah-1872


Correct Option: D

Tagore's Gitanjali is

  1. Collection of Poems

  2. The Collection of Short Stories

  3. A collection of drams

  4. A novel


Correct Option: A

Who among the following suggested the winding up of the Indian Congress after India attained independence?

  1. C. Rajagoplachari

  2. Acharya Kripalani

  3. Mahatma Gandhi

  4. Jayaprakash Narain


Correct Option: C

Those who joined the Mahatma Gandhi during the Champaran struggle included:

  1. Vallabhbhai & Vinobha Bhave

  2. Jawaharlal Nehru & Rajendra Prasad

  3. Rajendra Prasad & Anugraha Narayan Singh

  4. Mahadev Desai & Maniben Patel


Correct Option: B

”Al Hilal” was a newspaper started for propagating nationalism by:

  1. Abdul Kalam Azad

  2. MK Gandhi

  3. Mohammed Ali

  4. Syed Ahmed Khan


Correct Option: A

Which one of the following statements about Tagore is wrong?

  1. He believed in the multi-religious, multi-racial nationalism of India.

  2. He renounced his knighthood in1919 as a protest against the Jallianwala massacre.

  3. He was a humanist.

  4. He is accepted Gandhism as the gospal truth.


Correct Option: D

In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi started Civil Disobedience Movement from

  1. Sevagram

  2. Dandi

  3. Sabarmati

  4. Wardha


Correct Option: C

'The Making of the Mahatma' has been directed by

  1. Mira Nair

  2. Shyam Bengal

  3. Richard Attenborough

  4. None of them


Correct Option: B

Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in the year

  1. 1908

  2. 1910

  3. 1913

  4. 1914


Correct Option: C

Dwarkanath Tagore was Rabindranath Tagore’s

  1. Father

  2. Grandfather

  3. Brother

  4. Uncle


Correct Option: A

Home Rule Movement was started by

  1. Bal gangadhar Tilak

  2. Mahatma Gandhi

  3. Vivekananda

  4. Dr. Annie Besant


Correct Option: D

Gandhiji kept fast unto death (which is wrong):

  1. Ahmedabad-1918

  2. Yervada Jali 1932

  3. The Aga Khan Palace Poona-1943

  4. Calcutta –1947

  5. Delhi-1948


Correct Option: C

Which one of the following is a central university?

  1. Mumbai University

  2. Lucknow University

  3. Allahabad University

  4. Viswa-Bharati


Correct Option: D

Which of the following titles was surrendered by Gandhi durning the Non-co-operation movement?

  1. Rt. Honorable

  2. Rai Bahadur

  3. Hind Kesari

  4. Kaiser-e-Hind


Correct Option: D

The leader of Bardoli Satyagrath(1928) was:

  1. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

  2. Mahatma Gandhi

  3. Vithalbhai J. Patel

  4. Mahadev Desai


Correct Option: A

Mahatma Gandhi's ideas were influenced by the works of

  1. Ruskin

  2. Thoreau

  3. Tolsty

  4. All of them


Correct Option: D

How many years did Gandhiji spend in Africa?

  1. 10 years

  2. 15 years

  3. About 16 years

  4. About 22 years


Correct Option: D

In which year did Rabindranath Tagore die?

  1. 1938

  2. 1939

  3. 1940

  4. 1941


Correct Option: D

Rabindranath Tagore was a

  1. poet

  2. painter

  3. novelist

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D

When was the first non-cooperation movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi?

  1. 1917

  2. 1918

  3. 1919

  4. 1920


Correct Option: D

Which eminent Indian was commonly known as 'Gurudev?

  1. Acharya J.B. Kripalani

  2. Rabindranath Tagore

  3. Swami Vivekananda

  4. Mahadeo Govind Ranade


Correct Option: B

For how many years was Jawaharlal Nehru the Prime Minister of India?

  1. 14

  2. 16

  3. 17

  4. 18


Correct Option: C

Of the following who was not a signatory to the historic Poona Pact of 1932?

  1. B. R .Ambedkar

  2. Madan Mohan Malaviya

  3. C. Rajagopalachari

  4. M.K. Gandhi


Correct Option: C

Mahatma Gandhi launched the Satyagraha Movement in 1919

  1. as a protest against the atrocities committed at Jallianwala Bagh

  2. as a protest against the Rowlatt Act

  3. both of these

  4. neither of these


Correct Option: C

Champaran, where Gandhiji had his first major experiment in Satyagraha in India, is in the state of

  1. Gujarat

  2. Maharashtra

  3. Bihar

  4. Madhya pradesh


Correct Option: C

”It is a post dated cheque drawn upon a crashing bank” Who said this about the Cripps' Mission?

  1. Jawaharlal Nehru

  2. Mahatma Gandhi

  3. J.B. Kripalani

  4. Jaiprakash Narayan


Correct Option: B

Which one of the following is correctly matched?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi:Muk Naik

  2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak:Young India

  3. Annie Besant: Commonwealth

  4. B.R.Ambedkar:Kesari


Correct Option: C

Salt Satyagraha was launced by Gandhiji in the year

  1. 1928

  2. 1929

  3. 1930

  4. 1931


Correct Option: C
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