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1. Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on
15th March ______.
(a) 1928
(b) 1930
(c) 1931
(d) 1935
Ans: ©
Answer
The Gandhi- Irwin pact was signed
between Mahatma Gandhi and the
then Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin on
March 5, 1931. Following are the
features of Gandhi- Irwin pact:
1. The Congress would participate in
the Round Table Conference.
2. The Congress would discontinue
the Civil Disobedience Movement.
3. The Government would withdraw
all ordinances issued to curb the
Congress.
4. The Government would withdraw
all prosecutions relating to offenses
other than violent one. The
Government would release all
persons undergoing sentences of
imprisonment for their activities in
the civil disobedience movement
2. The famous resolution on Non-
Cooperation under the inspiration
of Mahatma Gandhi was adopted in
a special session of Congress held at
Calcutta in
(a) September 1920
(b) December 1922
(c) October 1924
(d) November 1925
Ans: (a)
The famous resolution on Non-
Cooperation under the inspiration of
Mahatma Gandhi was adopted in a
special session of Congress held at
Calcutta in September 1920
Congress held a special session in
Calcutta in September 1920 under
the presidentship of Lala Lajpat Rai. It
met to pass the resolution of the
Non-Cooperation Movement.
Mahatma Gandhi wrongly predicted
that if the Non-cooperation
movement gets successful, Swaraj
could be attained in One year.
3. The Swaraj Party was organised
by
(a) Lala Lajapat Rai and Feroze Shah
Mehta
(b) Sarojini Naidu and Annie Besant
(c) CR Das and Motilal Nehru
(d) C Rajagopalachari and CY
Chintamani
Ans: ©
Swaraj Party was an Indian political
party established in late 1922–early
1923 by members of the Indian
National Congress (Congress Party),
notably Motilal Nehru and CR Das.
They were among the pro changers
who wanted to contest in the
elections. Many candidates of the
Swaraj Party got elected to the
central legislative assembly and
provincial legislative council in the
1923 elections where they opposed
the unjust government policies.
4. In what session did Congress
declared complete Independence
(Poorna Swaraj) as its goal?
(a) Lahore session held in 1929
(b) Madras session held in 1927
(c) Ahmadabad session held in 1921
(d) Gaya session held in 1922
Ans: (a)
The Purna Swaraj declaration (or
complete self-rule independent of
the British Empire) was promulgated
by the Indian National Congress on
19 December 1929 in its Lahore
session. 26th January 1930 was
declared as Purna Swaraj Diwas. At
this session, it was decided that
Round Table Conference was to be
boycotted and Civil Disobedience was
to be launched
5. When was the first Independence
day unofficially celebrated before
Independence?
(a) On 26th January 1929
(b) On 26th January 1931
(c) On 26th January 1935
(d) On 26th January 1930
Ans: (d)
The Purna Swaraj declaration (or
complete self-rule independent of
the British Empire) was promulgated
by the Indian National Congress in
1929 in its Lahore session. 26th
January 1930 was unofficially
celebrated as the Independence day.
The flag of India was hoisted publicly
across India by Congress volunteers,
nationalists and the public
6. Who was the British Prime
Minister who convened the First
Round Table Conference in
London?
(a) Churchill
(b) Ramsay McDonald
(c) Chamberlain
(d) Disraeli
Ans: (b)
The first Round Table Conference
convened by Labour Government
Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald
from 12 November 1930 to 19
January 1931 in London. While the
Congress and most business leaders
boycotted it, the Muslim League, the
Hindu Mahasabha, the Liberals, and
princes attended it. The outcomes of
the first Round Table Conference
were minimal and the British
Government realized that the Indian
National Congress needed to be part
of deciding the future of
constitutional government in India.
7. Who among the following did not
attend the First Round Table
Conference?
(a) MK Gandhi
(b) Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru
(c) Dr Ambedkar
(d) C V Chintamani
Ans: (a)
The first Round Table Conference
convened by Labour Government
Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald
from 12 November 1930 to 19
January 1931 in London. While the
Congress and most business leaders
boycotted it, the Muslim League, the
Hindu Mahasabha, the Liberals, and
princes attended it. Prior to the
Conference, M. K. Gandhi had
initiated the Civil Disobedience
Movement on behalf of the Indian
National Congress and did not attend
the conference.
8. Who opened the First Round
Table Conference?
(a) King George V
(b) MK Gandhi
(c) Lord Irwin
(d) Ramsay McDonald
Ans: (a)
The first Round Table Conference
convened by Labour Government
Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald
from 12 November 1930 to 19
January 1931 in London. The Round
Table Conference officially
inaugurated by His Majesty George V
on November 12, 1930, in Royal
Gallery House of Lords at London.
While the Congress and most
business leaders boycotted it, the
Muslim League, the Hindu
Mahasabha, the Liberals, and princes
attended it. The outcomes of the first
Round Table Conference were
minimal and the British Government
realized that the Indian National
Congress needed to be part of
deciding the future of constitutional
government in India.
9. The historic fast by Gandhi came
to an end as a result of the
(a) Poona Pact
(b) Issue of White Paper
(c) Gandhi-Irwin Pact
(d) Arrival of Simon Commission
Ans: (a)
Poona Pact was an agreement
between Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
and Mahatma Gandhi signed on
September 24, 1932, at Yerwada
Central Jail in Pune, to break
Mahatma Gandhi's fast unto death.
Poona pact was the result of the
communal award granted in 1932 by
the British government. Mahatma
Gandhi objected to the provision of
separate electorates for the
Scheduled Castes, which in his view
separated them from the whole
Hindu community.
10. 'My strongest bulwark is gone'
lamented Gandhiji on the death of
(a) Gopalakrishna Gokhale
(b) Motilal Nehru
(c) Pheroze Shah Mehta
(d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Ans: (d)
11. When was the First Round
Table Conference held?
(a) 1933
(b) 1931
(c) 1930
(d) 1903
Ans: C
The first Round Table Conference
convened by Labour Government
Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald in
1930 in London.
12. Mahatma Gandhi participated
In the Second Round Table
conference after
(a) signing the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of
March 1931
(b) refusing to hold direct talks with
the Muslim League
(c) being permitted by the Congress
(d) receiving assurance that
independence was fast coming
Ans: (a)
Mahatma Gandhi participated in the
Second Round Table conference after
the Gandhi Irwin Pact. It was an
agreement signed on March 5, 1931,
between Mohandas K. Gandhi and
Lord Irwin. Some of the features of
the pact were:
1. All the political prisoners who were
not convicted for creating violence
were to be released immediately.
2. Villages that were located along
the coast were given the right to
make salt for their consumption.
3. The Congress would discontinue
the Civil Disobedience Movement
and participate in the Round Table
Conference.
4. Peaceful picketing of foreign
clothes and liquor shops was to be
permitted.
Dr B. R. Ambedkar clashed with
Mahatma Gandhi at the
___________.
Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. B.R.
Ambedkar clashed at second round
table conference by demanding
separate electorates for Dalits. When
the British government conceded to
Dr. Ambedkar's demand, Gandhiji
began a fast unto death.
13. In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi
started the Civil Disobedience
Movement from
(a) Wardha
(b) Sevagram
(c) Sabarmati
(d) Dandi
Ans: ©
Gandhi inaugurated the Civil
Disobedience Movement by
conducting the historic Dandi Salt
March starting from Sabarmati
Ashram to Dandi where he went on
to break the Salt Law imposed by the
British Government. Along with this
activity, activities like no tax
campaign, no revenue, and no rent
(land tax) campaign became very
popular in different parts of India.
The movement was very tense in
Bengal and the north-west.
14. The idea of incorporating, untouchability in India. It was born
safeguards In the Indian out of the historic Poona Pact
Constitution was inspired by the between Mahatma Gandhi and
(a) Third Round Table Conference Babasaheb Ambedkar. Mahatma
(b) Gandhi-Irwin Pact Gandhi objected to the provision of
(c) Visit of Simon Commission separate electorates for the
(d) Poona Pact Scheduled Castes granted in the
Ans: ©
Communal Award of 1932, which in
his view separated them from the
15. Match List-I with List-U and
select the correct answer using whole Hindu community.
the codes given below the lists:
List-I List-II 17. To which personality Gandhiji
A. Dadabhai Naoroji 1. Home gave the title "Deen Bandhu"?
Rule (a) Sri Aurobindo
B. Annie Besant 2. (b) CF Andrews
Servants of India Society (c) Vinoba Bhave
C. Gopalakrishna 3. Thrice (d) CR Das
President Gokhale of INC Ans: (b)
D. Sri Aurobindo 4.
Extremist Turned Spiritualist 18. Which of the following leaders
Codes: died as a result of Injuries sustained
ABCD during a protest demonstration
(a) 1 3 4 2 against Simon Commission?
(b) 1 3 2 4 (a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(c) 3 1 2 4 (b) Dadabhai Naoroji
(d) 3 1 4 2 (c) Goplakrishna Gokhale
Ans: © (d) LaIa Lajpat Rai
Ans: (d)
16. Who founded the 'All India Lala Lajpat Rai died on November 17,
Harijan Samaj' in 1932? 1928, after suffering grievous injuries
(a) B R Ambedkar during a lathi-charge carried out by
(b) Acharya Narendra Dev the police. When the Simon
(c) Mahatma Gandhi Commission visited Lahore on
(d) Jagjivan Ram October 30, 1928, Lala Lajpat Rai led
Ans: © the protest against the commission in
a silent non-violent march, but the
Harijan Sevak Sangh was a non-profit police responded with violence. They
organisation founded by Mahatma protested the commission as it did
Gandhi in 1932 to eradicate
not include a single Indian as its
member.
19. Who gave the slogan 'Inquilab
Zindabad'?
(a) Bhagat Singh
(b) Subhash Chandra Bose
(c) Md Iqbal
(d) Chandra Shekhar Azad
Ans: (a)
The famous slogan Inquilab Zindabad
Long Live Revolution was given by
Hasrat Mohani. The slogan was also
used by Bhagat Singh, who shouted it
after bombing the Central Assembly
in Delhi. It became one of the rallying
cries of the Indian independence
movement.
his famous slogan inspired the
activities of the Hindustan Socialist
Republican Association particularly
Ashfaqulla Khan, Bhagat Singh and
Chandrashekhar Azad.
20. Who said that the exploitative
nature of British rule was
'Bleeding India White'?
(a) Tilak
(b) Dadabhai Naoroji
(c) Hume
(d) Annie Besant
Ans: (b)
In 1867, Dadabhai Naoroji put
forward the ‘drain of wealth’ theory
in which he stated that the Britain
was completely draining India. He
mentioned this theory in his book
Poverty and Un-British Rule in India.
He put forward the idea that Britain
was draining and bleeding India and
that, too, for nothing.
21. "India for the Indiana" was the
political message of
(a) D E Wacha
(b) Vivekanand
(c) Dayanand
(d) Hume
Ans: ©
22. Which of the following was the
'Newspaper' of Annie Besant?
(a) The Hindu
(b) Indian Express
(c) The Times of India
(d) New India
Ans: (d)
In 1914, Annie Besant purchased an
Indian newspaper, the Madras
Standard, and on August 1 of that
year changed its name to New India
It was not for profit purposes but to
spread the idea of patriotism among
the people. She criticized British rule
and was jailed for sedition. The
newspaper supported the movement
for Indian Nationalism.
23. Aligarh Muslim University was
founded by
(a) Jinnah
(b) Syed Ahmed Khan
(c) Abul Kalam Azad
(d) Bhutto
Ans: (b)
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was a Muslim
philosopher, social activist and
educator who founded the Anglo- (d) GS Arundale
Mohammedan Oriental College which Ans: ©
later came to be known as Aligarh Dadabhai Naoroji was the first man
Muslim University. He considered to say that internal factors were not
competence in English and Western the reasons of poverty in India but
sciences necessary skills for poverty was caused by the colonial
maintaining Muslims' political rule that was draining the wealth and
influence.The university is open to prosperity of India. Dadabhai
everyone irrespective of caste, creed, Naoroji’s mentioned the concept of
religion or gender. drain of wealth from India during
British rule in his book Poverty and
24. Match the following: Un-British Rule in India. He made an
List-I estimate of drain which was around
List-II Rs 8 million. He observed that the
A. Swaraj is my birth right drain consists of the remittances by
1. Moderates European Officials, their expenditure
B. It is not reforms but re-form in England, pensions and salaries paid
2. Lajpat Rai in England, etc.
C. A subject people has no soul
3. BC Pal
26. As per the Act of 1919 which of
D. Policy of petitions, prayers and
the following statements was not
protests 4. Tilak
correct?
Choose the correct answer from the
(a) British India must remain an
codes given below:
integral part of the British
Codes:
Empire.
ABCD
(b) Responsible Government would
(a) 1 2 3 4
be realised only by the
(b) 4 3 2 1
progressive stages.
(c) 3 4 2 1
(c) Provincial subjects were classified
(d) 2 1 3 4
into Reserved subjects
Ans: (b)
and Transferred subjects.
(d) The salary of the Secretary of
25. Who said that the constant
State for India was not to be
'drain of wealth' from India was paid by Parliament.
responsible for Indla's economic Ans: (d)
miseries?
(a) BC Pal
Government of India Act of 1919 was
(b) BP Wadia
passed on the basis of
(c) Dadabhai Naoroji
recommendations of Montford
Reforms.It introduced provincial
government dyarchy. Subjects were
divided into two lists: reserved and
transferred subjects. It declared
gradual development of self-
governing institutions with a view to
the progressive realization of
responsible government in India as
an integral part of the British Empire.
It made an important change that
from then onward Secretary of State
was to be paid from the British
exchequer.
27. As per the Act of 1919 which of
the following was not a Transferred
subject?
(a) Education
(b) Museum
(c) Medical Relief
(d) Land Revenue
Ans: (d)
Government of India Act of 1919 was
passed on the basis of
recommendations of Montford
Reforms.It introduced provincial
government dyarchy. Subjects were
divided into two lists: reserved which
included subjects such as law and
order, finance, land revenue,
irrigation, etc., and transferred
subjects such as education, health,
local government, industry,
agriculture, excise, etc.
28. The Dyarchy which was
introduced on 1921 In province a
was in force till the year
(a) 1927
(b) 1935
(c) 1937
(d) 1947
Ans: ©
Dyarchy was established in Bombay
Presidency based on the
recommendations of the Montague-
Chelmsford report. It was in force till
1937 as the Government of India
introduced provincial autonomy. It
provided for establishment of a
Federation of India to be made up of
provinces of British India and some or
all of the Princely states.
29. The Home Rule League was
formed during the
(a) First World War
(b) Partition of Bengal
(c) Struggle following the Jallianwala
Bagh Massacre
(d) Implementation of Minto-Morley
Reforms
Ans: (a)
The Home Rule League organization
was established in 1915-16 during
WW I, by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and
Annie Besant. Many Indian
revolutionaries supported the
Britishers but Tilak and Besant
considered this an opportunity to
achieve independence from the
British. Thus, they decided to
organize a national alliance of leagues
across India, specifically to demand
Home Rule or self-government.

30. The Secretary of State for India
was given powers by
(a) The Act of 1909
(b) The Act of 1919
(c) The Act of 1858
(d) The Act of 1861
Ans: (b)
The Secretary of State for India was
British cabinet minister and political
head of Indian office. This post was
created in 1858 by Government of
India Act which transferred the
power to British crown when East
India Company rule in Bengal ended
and India( except princely states) was
brought under the direct
administration of the government in
London which marked the beginning
of the colonial period under British
Empire
31. Of the following who was not
the leader of the Extremists?
(a) Lokamanya Tilak
(b) Aurobindo Ghose
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(d) Hume
Ans: (d)
The Congress split into two parts-
Moderates and Extremists in the year
1907 at the Surat Session of
Congress. Moderates aimed at
administrative and constitutional
reforms while Extremists aimed at
nothing short of swaraj as it existed
in the United Kingdom and its self-
governing colonies. Some of the
extremists leaders were Bala
Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal
and Lala Lajpat Rai, Aurobindo Ghosh.
A.O. Hume did not belong to the
Extremists group but was a moderate
leader during the first phase (1885-
1905) of INC.
32. Satyagraha Sabha was formed
by Gandhi Ji at
(a) Bombay
(b) Calcutta
(c) Gujarat
(d) Poona
Ans: (a)
Gandhi did not believe that the
existing institutions could handle
such a noble weapon. So a separate
institution named Satyagraha Sabha
was formed, its headquarters were in
Bombay.
Gandhiji's first experiment in
Satyagraha was accomplished in 1917
in Champaran in Bihar. The indigo
cultivators of Champaran were
greatly exploited by the European
planters. They were bound by law to
grow indigo and sell it to the British
planters at prices fixed by them.
Gandhiji did a Satyagraha to resist
this exploitation and secured justice
for the peasants
33. Gandhi Ji called for an all India
Hartal (strike) to protest against
Rowlatt Act on 6th April ______.
(a) 1918
(b) 1919
(c) 1926
(d) 1925
Ans: (b)
Rowlatt Act allowed certain political
cases to be tried without juries and
permitted imprisonment of suspects
without trial. It was passed by the
Imperial Legislative Council in
February 1919. Gandhi organized a
hartal, a form of protest through non-
violence by the stoppage of work on
6th Aprill,1919.
The first major national campaign
organized by Mahatma Gandhi was
against the Rowlatt Act, which
severely limited civil liberties. This
movement began with an all-India
hartal, observed on Sunday the 6th of
April 1919. Gandhi had decided to
lead the hartal in Bombay himself.
34. At Jallianwaia Bagh meeting
______ ordered the troops to open
fire.
(a) Benn
(b) Irwin
(c) Dyer
(d) Montagu
Ans: ©
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre was the
incident in which British troops fired
on a large crowd of unarmed Indians
in Amritsar killing several hundred
people and wounding many hundreds
more. On 13 April 1919, thousands of
people were gathered at Jallianwala
Bagh in Amritsar. General Reginald
Dyer arrived there with armed troops
and ordered ruthless firing on the
uninformed crowd.
35. The enquiry Committee on
Jallianwala Bagh incident was
headed by
(a) Dyer
(b) Irwin
(c) Hunter
(d) Simon
Ans: ©
A Committee named Hunter
Committee was set up to investigate
the Jallianwala Bagh incident. It was a
seven-member committee headed by
Lord Hunter, Senator of the College
of Justice in Scotland. The stated
purpose of the commission was to
"investigate the recent disturbances
in Bombay, Delhi, and Punjab, about
their causes, and the measures taken
to cope with them".
36. Dyer was ______ by the
Government of Britain.
(a) sentenced for life
(b) sentenced to death
(c) rewarded with honour
(d) relieved of his service
Ans: (d)
The government of India ordered an
investigation of the incident (the
Hunter Commission), which in 1920
censured Dyer for his actions and
ordered him to resign from the
military
 37. Khilafat Movement was
organised by
(a) Jinnah
(b) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(c) Ali Brothers
(d) Agha Khan
Ans: (c)
Khilafat Movement was organized by
the Ali brothers- Shaukat and
Muḥammad Ali to protest against the
injustice done to Turkey. It was an
agitation by Indian Muslims, allied
with Indian nationalists, to pressure
the British government to preserve
the authority of the Ottoman Sultan
who was considered the leader of
Sunni Muslims, as an effective
political authority,as Caliph of Islam
after World War I. In early 1919 a
Khilafat Committee which demanded
that the Khalifa’s control over Muslim
sacred places be restored and he
should be left with sufficient
territories
38. Khilafat Movement was
organised to protest against the
injustice done to
(a) Persia
(b) Turkey
(c) Arabia
(d) Egypt
Ans: (b)
In Turkey, a national movement arose
under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who
was a Pro-western nationalist. He,
supported by the western powers,
abolished the position of the Caliph.
Naturally the Muslims in India
became anti British, as the power and
influence of their religious leader was
ended. Muslims were especially
upset about the future of the Islamic
places of worship after the allied
powers had partitioned the Turkish
Empire.
39. The Special Congress Session
held in 1920 at Calcutta was
presided over by
(a) Nehru
(b) LaIa Lajpat Rai
(c) Bose
(d) Gandhi
Ans: (b)
Congress held a special session in
Calcutta in September 1920 under
the presidentship of Lala Lajpat Rai. It
met to pass the resolution of the
Non-Cooperation Movement.
Mahatma Gandhi wrongly predicted
that if the Non-cooperation
movement gets successful, Swaraj
could be attained in One year.
40. Of the following who did not
oppose the Non-cooperation
resolution?
(a) C R Das
(b) Madan Mohan Malaviya
(c) Mrs Besant
(d) Nehru
Ans: (d)
The Non-cooperation movement was
withdrawn because of the Chauri
Chaura incident.In 1922 the town was
the site of the Chauri Chaura incident
in which police shot and killed several
demonstrators who were
participating in the Non-cooperation
movement and a police station was
set on fire by the protesters, resulting
in the deaths of at least 23
policemen.
. Although he had stopped the
national revolt single-handedly, on 10
March 1922, Gandhi was arrested.
Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das
formed the Swaraj Party, rejecting
Gandhi's leadership.