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Advent of Gandhi and Mass Mobilisation
- When was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi born?
2 October 1869
- Where was Gandhi born?
Porbandar, Gujarat
- When did Gandhi return to India from South Africa?
1915
- Whom did Gandhi accept as his political guru?
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- For how many years was Gandhi away from India?
20 Years
- On whose advice did Gandhi return to India?
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- Where did Gandhi establish Sabarmati Ashram?
Ahmedabad
- Through which movement did Gandhi make his first attempt to unite the people of India?
Champaran Movement
- In which year was the Champaran Mission launched?
1917
- What state is Champaran located in?
Bihar
- How many portions of land must the peasants of Champaran to compulsorily grow indigo on lease?
3/20th Share
- What was the second struggle undertaken by Gandhiji?
Ahmedabad Mill Workers’ Strike protest
- What percentage of wages did Gandhiji advise the workers of Ahmedabad to go on strike?
35%
- In which year did the peasants of Kheda district request the colonial administration to cancel the land revenue collection?
1918
- As per government’s famine code, in the event of crop yield being under what percentage of the average the cultivators were entitled for total remission ?
25%
- With whom did Gandhi fight in the Kheda struggle?
Vallabhbhai Patel
- Who founded the Servants of India Society?
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- When was the Servants of India Society established?
1905
- Which was the first secular organization in the country?
Servants of India Society
- Where is the headquarters of the Servants of India Society located?
Pune, Maharashtra
- Where are the branches of the Servants of India Society located?
Chennai (Madras), Mumbai (Bombay),Allahabad and Nagpur
- Who was Montagu in the Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms?
Secretary of State for India
- What position did Chelmsford hold?
Viceroy
- When were the Montagu–Chelmsford Reform Acts promulgated?
1919
- What was the Montagu–Chelmsford reforms called later?
Indian Councils Act of 1919
- Which Act enlarged the provincial legislative councils with elected majorities.?
Indian Councils Act 1919
- Under which Act The governments in the provinces were given more share in the administration under ‘Dyarchy.’?
Indian Councils Act 1919
- Under which Act were all important subjects like law and order and finance ‘reserved’ for the whitemen and were directly under the control of the Governors.?
Indian Councils Act 1919
- What subjects were transferred to Indian representatives under the Indian Councils Act, 1919?
Health, Education, Local Bodies etc.
- Out of the total 144 members in the Central Legislative Assembly, how many members should be nominated?
41 Members
- Out of the total 60 members in the Upper House, how many were nominated members?
26 People
- The Upper House known as?
the Council of States
- Where was the special session of the Indian National Congress held in August 1918?
Bombay
- Under whose leadership was the group of moderate/liberal political leaders?
Surendranath Banerjee
- Where was the Namasutra movement started?
Bengal and eastern parts of India
- Where was the Adidharma movement started?
Northwestern parts of India
- Where did the Satyashodhak movement originate?
Western India
- Where did the Dravidian movements originate?
South India
- In which year did Jyoti Rao Phule’s book Gulamgiri first appear?
1872
- In which period was the electoral politics introduced?
In the 1880s
- What two trends emerged from the non-Brahmin movements?
One was what is called the process of ‘Sanskritisatian’ of the ‘lower’ castes and the second was a radical pro-poor and progressive peasant–labour movements.
- What percentage of the population were Brahmins?
3.2%
- Under whose leadership did the Dalit-Bahujan movement emerge?
Ambedkar
- Under whose leadership did the Self-Respect Movement emerge?
Thanthai Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
- When was the Rowlatt Act passed?
March 1919
- Which Act empowered the government to imprison any person without trial?
Rowlatt Act
- Which organisation was founded by Gandhi, which pledged to disobey the Rowlatt Act first?
Satyagraha Sabha
- When did Gandhi called upon the people to observe ‘hartal’ for against the Rowlatt Act?
March-April 1919
- When did the Jallianwala Bagh massacre take place?
April 13, 1919
- Who were the two prominent individuals whose arrest triggered the protest at Jallianwala Bagh?
Satyapal and Saifudding Kitchlew
- Who was the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab at the time of Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
Michael O’Dwyer
- Who was the Army Commander at the time of Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
General Reginald Dyer
- According to government data, how many people died during the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
379
- Who renounced his knighthood in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
Rabindranath Tagore
- “The time has come when the badge of honour makes our shame glaring in their incongruous context of humiliation, and, I for my part, wish to stand shorn of all special distinctions, by the side of those of my countrymen who for their so-called insignificance are liable to suffer degradation not fit for human beings.” who wrote this In his protest letter to the viceroy protesting the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
Rabindranath Tagore
- The two immediate causes responsible for launching the non-cooperation movement were?
Khilafat & Punjab wrongs.
- What was the attack on and massacre of protesters at Jallianwala Bagh called?
Punjab atrocity
- When did Udham Singh assassinate Michael O’Dwyer at Caxton Hall of London?
March 30,1940
- Where was Udham Singh hanged for killing Michael O’Dwyer?
Pentonville jail, London
- At the Khilafat Conference, at the insistence of Gandhiji, when was it decided to launch the Non-Cooperation Movement?
August 31, 1920
- Where was the special session of the Congress passed a resolution approving Gandhijis suggestion of noncooperation in the colonial state?
September 1920 [ Calcutta ]
- At which Congress session was another important resolution passed was to recognize and set up linguistic Provincial Congress Committees which drew a large number of workers into the movement?
Nagpur Congress Session
- When did the Nagpur Congress session take place?
1920
- In order to broad base the Congress, the workers were to reach out to the villages and enroll the villagers in the Congress on what nominal fee ?
Four annas (25 paise)
- When did the Prince of Wales visit to several cities in India ?
1921
- In which part of South India did all the people refuse to pay taxes and leave the cities in droves?
Chirala-Perala
- Under whose leadership was the Non-Cooperation Movement conducted in Tamil Nadu?
- Rajagopalachari, S.Satyamurthi and Periyar E.V.R.
- Against whom did the farmers stage protests in Kerala during the civil disobedience movement?
Genmies
- When did Gandhi announced that he would lead a mass civil disobedience, including no tax campaigns, at Bardoli?
February 1922
- Who announced that he would lead a mass civil disobedience, including no tax campaigns, at Bardoli, if the government did not ensure press freedom and release the prisoners within seven days?
Gandhiji
- Who led the tribal revolt In the Rampa region of coastal Andhra ?
Alluri Sitarama Raju
- How many policemen were killed in the Chauri Chaura riots?
22
- Where is Chauri Chaura located?
Gorakhpur district in Uttar Pradesh
- When did the Chauri Chaura incident take place?
February 5, 1922
- Who were critical of Gandhi, who was arrested and sentenced to six years in jail?
Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose
- Under whose leadership did the Turkish people rose in revolt and stripped the Sultan of his political power and abolished the Caliphate?
Mustafa Kamal Pasha
- What were the nationalists who followed Chittaranjan Das and Motilal Nehru called?
‘Swarajists and pro-changers’
- Who joined the Swaraj group from Tamil Nadu?
Satyamurti
- Who led the group called No Changers?
Rajagopalachari, Vallabhai Patel and Rajendra Prasad
- How many seats did the Swaraj Party win out of 101 seats in the elections to the Central Legislative Assembly?
42 Seats
- How many days did Gandhi fast to contain the communal frenzy?
21 Days
- Who was sentenced to death in the Kakori conspiracy case?
Ramprasad Bismil, Ashfaq-ullah
- Who are enraged at the police brutality and death of Lajpat Rai, killed Saunders, the British police officer who led the lathi charge at Lahore?
Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, Rajguru
- Who led the lathi charge in Lahore?
British police officer Saunders
- When did Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw bombs inside the hall of the Central Legislative Assembly?
April 8,1929
- In which year was the Meerut conspiracy case was filed and three dozen communist leaders were sentenced to long spells of jail terms?
1929
- When was the decision to boycott the Simon Commission at the annual session of the Congress?
1927 Madras
- When was the Motilal Nehru Report published?
1928
- Where did the Congress meet in 1928?
Calcutta
- To conciliate the left wing it was announced that who would be the President of the next session in 1929?
Jawaharlal Nehru
- Who presided over the Congress session in 1928?
Motilal Nehru
- At which conference did the Congress proclaim the goal of Poorna Swaraj?
Lahore Congress Conference
- In which year was the Lahore Congress session held?
1929
- When was the tricolour flag of freedom hoisted in Lahore?
December 31, 1929
- Which day of every year would be celebrated as Independence Day at the Lahore Congress Convention?
January 26
- How far was the Dandi March planned to go from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi on the Gujarat coast?
375 Km
- With how many followers did Gandhi start his Dandi March?
78 Volunteers
- When did Gandhi reach Dandi?
April 6, 1930
- Who led the Salt Satyagraha march to Vedaranyam in Tamil Nadu?
Rajaji
- Where did the Salt Satyagraha start in Tamil Nadu?
Tiruchirappalli
- When did the Vedaranyam Salt Satyagraha Yatra begin?
April 13,1930
- When did Rajaji team reach Vedaranyam?
April 28,1930
- Who had warned the public of severe action if the Vedaranyam Salt Satyagraha marchers were harboured?
Thanjavur District Collector J.A. Thorne
- When was the Gandhi-Irwin Pact signed?
March 5,1931
- Who attended attended the Second Round Table Conference in London as the sole representative of the Congress?
Gandhiji
- Where did the Congress session adopt the Gandhi-Irwin Pact?
Karachi
- After the failure of the Second Round Table Conference, what struggle did Gandhiji take?
Civil Disobedience Movement
- When did the Civil Disobedience Movement officially suspended?
May 1933
- When did the Civil Disobedience Movement withdrawn?
May 1934
- Who was at the heart of the struggles of the oppressed in the 1920s?
Dr. Ambedkar
- In which year did Ambedkar graduate from Elphinston College?
1912
- With whose scholarship did he go to the United States for postgraduate studies?
Maharaja of Barona
- From which university did Ambedkar get his doctorate?
Columbia University
- Where did Ambedkar go for law and economics studies?
london
- When did Ambedkar attend the International Conference of Anthropology?
1916
- Ambedkar attended the International Conference on Anthropology in 1916 and presented a research paper on what topic?
Castes in India
- the research paper Castes in India published in?
Indian Antiquary
- What journal did Ambedkar start to publish his views?
Mook Nayak
- What is the meaning of Mook Nayak?
The leader of the dumb
- What organization did Ambedkar start for his activities?
Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha
- What is the meaning of Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha?
Association for the welfare of excluded
- What organization did Ambedkar start to to establish the civic right of the untouchables to public tanks and wells?
Mahad Satyagraha
- When did the British Government announce the Communal Reservation of Seats?
August 1932
- Who declared with great regret that all his life he would oppose the grant of separate electorates to the Untouchables?
Gandhiji
- Where did Gandhi go on a fast unto death to protest against separate electorates?
Yervada Jail
- What was the new agreement on separate electorates between Ambedkar and Gandhiji called?
Poona Pact
- How many parties did Ambedkar start?
two
- When did Ambedkar start the Independent Labour Party?
1937
- When did Ambedkar start the Scheduled Castes Federation?
1942
- In which year was Ambedkar appointed as a member of the Defence Advisory Committee?
1942