INDIAN HISTORY

1. Who denounced Indian National Congress as a 'microscopic minority' ? - Lord Dufferin
2. Name the founder of the first women's university established at Pune - D.K Karve
3. The Chauri- Chaura incident was in: - 1922
4. Who put forward the fourteen points in 1929 ? - Muhammadali Jinnah
5. Name the leader of the Chittagong armoury raid of 1930 ? - Suryasen
6. How many delegates participated in the first session of the Indian National Congress ? - 72
7. Name the organising secretary of the Home rule league of Mrs. Annie Besant ? - Arun Dale
8. The viceroy who revoked the partition of Bengal : - Lord Hardinge II
9. Who is called as the 'father of Indian Unrest' ? - Bala Gangadhara Tilak
10. Mahatma Gandhi's first satyagraha in India was at: Champaran
11. The first mass struggle organised by the I.N.C under the leadership of Gandhiji: Non-Co-operation Movement
12. Name the founder of the publication, 'comrade' - Muhammadali
13. Who helped Motilal Nehru to prepare the Nehru Report ? - Tej Bahadur Sapru
14. The congress session which decided to observe 26th January as Independence Day - Lahore Session of 1929
15. Gandhiji and his followers violated the salt law on: - April 6th, 1930 
16. Name the leader of the No changers of the I.N.C in the Gaya session of 1922: - C.Rajagopalachari
17. Who is called as the Rani of Nagas ? - Rani Gaidilin
18. The British Government issued the white paper in: -1933
19. Who moved the Quit India resolution ? - Jawaharlal Nehru
20. Indian National Congress started the individual satyagraha in: -1940
21. Who was the president of the cabinet mission ? - Pethic Lawrence
22. What is callled as 'August Revolution' ? - Quit India Movement 
23. Who was selected as the head of the National Planning Committee of I.N.C. set up in 1938 ? - Jawaharlal Nehru
24. The headquarters of the provisional Government of free India set up by Subhash Chandra Bose: - Singapore
25. Who coined the word 'Pakistan' ? - Rahmat Ali
26. Who Called Subhash Chandra Bose 'Netaji' ? - I.N.A Soldiers
27. I.N.A was formed in: -1942
28. Who was the first to offer the individual satyagraha ? -Vinoba Bhave
29. The Direct Action Day of the Muslim League was in: - 1946
30. Name the Grand old man of south India ? - G. Subrahmanyam Iyer
31. The states reorganising commission was headed by: - Dr.Fazl Ali
32. The first unilingual state in India - Andhra Pradesh
33. Name the first South Indian President of the I.N.C. - Ananda Charlue
34. Identify the leader not participated in the first session of the I.N.C. - S.N Banerjee
35. When did Gandhiji return the kaiser-i-Hind award to the British ? -1919
36. Name the founder of the Navajeevan Trust - Mahatma Gandhi
37. Who was the first woman graduate of Calcutta University ? - Kedambini Ganguly
38. Name the father of Indian Economics - Dadabhai Naoroji
39. Mahatma Gandhi wrote his autobiography in: Gujarati
40. The Congress Socialist Party was formed in - 1934
41. Name the first Indian to be elected to the leadership of Communist International - M.N Roy
42. C. Sankaran Nair became the president of the Indian National Congress in 1897 at: - Amravati
43. Name the viceroy of India during the Jallian walabagh massacre. - Lord Chelmsford
44. Who put forward the safety- Valve theory of Indian National Congress ? - Lalalajpath Roy
45. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association was formed in: - 1928
46. Who ran the congress radio during the Quit India Movement ? - Usha Mehta
47. Bhoodan Movement was started in: - 1951
48. Who is called as the 'Nightingale of India' ? Sarojini Naidu
49. Sevagram Ashram is situated in: - Maharashtra
50. The viceroy who introduced Financial Decentralisation in India: - Lord Mayo

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INDIA UNDER COLONIAL PERIOD

1. ------ was recommended a proper scheme of education from the primary school to the university for the whole of British India - Sir Charles Wood
2. Surat split was in the year  -  1907
3. The book Indian war of Independence published in London in 1909, was written by - V D Savarkar
4. For the acceptance of a scheme of constitutional reforms, congress- league pact was in the year -1916
5. By the act of 1858, the Governor General as representing the Crown become known as - Viceroy
6. The first Indian state to be annexed under doctrine of lapse - Satara
7. The policy of financial devolution was initiated by -  Lord Mayo
8. The Second Anglo Maratha war took place in the year  - 1802-03
9. The Vernacular Press Act was passed in the year - 1878
10. The third Anglo Maratha war took place in the period - 1817-18
11. The Vernacular Press Act was introduced by - Lord Lytton
12. The first three universities in India - Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were established in the year - 1857
13. The Jalianwala Bagh massacre occurred in - 13 April 1919
14. The firs railway line connecting Bombay to Thane was laid down in the year - 1853
15. The British parliament passed the Govt of India act of 1919 on the basis of the report on constitutional reform prepared by Montagu which is popularly known as  - Montagu-Chelmsford reforms
16. -------- may be regarded as the father of electric telegraph in India - Lord Dalhousie
17. In support of Khilafat Movement, Gandhi launched a program in August 1920 called - Non-cooperation movement
18. From which year onwards May Day come to be observed in India regularly - 1927
19. Chauri-chaura incident was in the year - 1922
20. The Civil Disobedience movement started with Gandhi's famous ---------- march - Dandy March
21. M N Roy one of the founder of Indian communism, his original name was - Narendranath Bhattacharya
22. --------- movement initiated by E V Ramaswamy Naikkar in Tamilnadu - Self respect movement
23. In the -----  case Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru and Sukh Dev were later sentenced to death - Lahore Conspiracy Case
24. Which award announced by the British Prime Minister Ramsay Mac Donald in 1932 - Communal award
25. With the assistance of Japanese authority Subhas Chandra Bose formed ------ to conduct a military campaign for the liberation of India - Azad Hind Fauj
26. The Ahmedabad Textile Labor Association founded by ------- in 1918 - Gandhiji
27. All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) formed on  -  1920
28. Who was organised a Hindu Political Organisation called Hindu Mahasabha at Haridwar in 1915 - Madan Mohan Malavya
29. The council Act of 1909 popularly known as - Minto Morley reforms
30. The Ghadar Party was organised in 1913 by Indian Revolutionaries headed by -  Hardayal, Taraknath Das and Sohan Singh Bhakna in USA
31. The head Quarters of Ghadar party was - San Francisco
32. Hind Swaraj (Indian home rule league) a booklet written by - Mahatma Gandhi
33. Gandhijis -------- program was a practical expression of his idea of Swaraj - Constructive program
34. ------ better known as Jalianwala bagh massacre - Amritsar tragedy
35. Regualtion no --------- of December 1829 declared the practice of Sati or burying alive of widows illegal and punishable - Regualtion no. XVII
36. Subhas Chandra Bose, was known by the name----- - Netaji
37. The Brahma Samaj was established by Raja Ram Mohan Roy on August 20, 1828 at ------ -Calcutta
38. After the failure of Cripps mission, Stafford Cripps left India on - 1942 April
39. Adi Brahma Samaj was established by - Devendranath Tagore
40. Prarthana Samaj came in to existence in 1867 under the leadership of - Dr Atmaram Pandurang
41. The head quarters of Indian Theosophical Society - Adayar near Madras
42. Kesab Chandra Sen. established the  - Bharatiya Brahmo Samaj
43. Bubhas Chandra Bose formed the party forward bloc in - 1939
44. Dr Atmaram Pandurang established the ------ in Maharasthra - Prarthana Samaj
45. The Bolshevik Party of India was established by - N Dutt Mazumdar
46. Prarthana Samaj was established in the year - 1867
47. The revolutionary communist party was launched by - Surendranath Tagore
48. A Gift to Monotheists a famous book written by - Raja Ram Mohan Roy
49. The Radical Democratic Party organised in 1940 by - M N Roy
50. The leader of Young Bengal Movement was - Henry Vivian Derozio
51. In which session of the all India congress committee passed on 8th  August 1942, the historic Quit India resolution - Bombay session
52. Who was dedicated  his life for the upliftment of Indian women and also protested against polygamy and child marriages in Bengal - Eshwar Chandra Vidyasagar
53. RIN mutiny (Royal Indian Navy ) was broke out in the year - 1946
54. Who was published a monthly journal Indian sociologist - Shyamji Krishna Varma
55. In March 1946, the British government sent a ----- mission to India to negotiate with Indian leaders the terms of transfer of power - Cabinet Mission
56. In 1905 shyamji Krishna Varma set up the Indian Home Rule society at ----- - London
57. Who gave the new idea of the Hindu society - Swami Vivekananda
58. The Indian home rule society was set up in London, it was popularly known as - India House
59. Swami Vivekananda attended the parliament of religions at - Chicago
60. Permanent settlement system of Bengal was in the year - 1793
61. Who was the founder of Arya Samaj - Swamy Dayananda Sarswati
62. The subsidiary alliance system was used by - Lord Wellesley
63. The Bible of Arya Samaj Sathyarth Parkas was written by - Swami Dayananda Sarswati
64. Who take necessary steps and declared the practice of sati illegal - William Bentick
65. Swami Vivekananda established Ramakrishna Mission in  ----- - 1896
66. Who was appointed to review the progress of education in  India - Hunter Commission
67. ------ written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee contained the hymn Bande Mataram - Ananda Math
68. The saddler university commission appointed in the year -1917
69. In 1937 Mahatma Gandhi proposed a scheme of education called - Basic education or Wardha scheme
70. Sivasamudra is an island formed by the river  - Cauvery
71. Who was popularly known as the Socrates of Maharashtra - Gopala Krishna Ghokhale
72. Who was the first Sufi saint in India ? - Kwaja Moinuddin Chishti
73. In 1905 Gopal Krishna Ghokhale established an organisation called - Servants of India Society
74. In Faizabad, the revolt of 1857 was led by - Ahmadullah
75. The childhood name of Ramakrishna Paramhamsa was  - Gadhadhar Chathopadhyaya
76. Who was the person first to use the word Swarajya - Bala Gangadara Tilak
77. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad started an Urdu weekly - Al-Hilal
78. The childhood name of Swami Vivekananda was - Narendra Nath
79. Who was the first Muslim president of Indian National Congress - Badrudin Theyabji
80. The Theosophical Society was first established by ------ in USA in 1875 - Madam HP Blavatsky and Colonel HS Olkott
81. Who was the author of a great Romantic play named Kadambari - Banabatta
82. Mohammadan Educational conference, which served as a common platform for meeting and spreading western education among the Muslims - Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
83. Who was the only Indian to be elected as a president of the United Nations General Assembly - Vijayalakshmi Pandit
84. The first principal of Anglo Oriental college at Aligarh was - Theodore Back
85. Which religion reformer of western India was known as Lokhitawadi - Gopla Hari Desmukh
86. Who was the viceroy of India at the time of the formation of Indian National Congress - Lord Dufferin
87. In 1893 ------ founded the Mohammmaden Anglo Oriental Defense Association - Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
88. The East India Association founded by Dhadabai Naoroji in the year - 1866
89. Jyothiba Phule organised the ------ in 1873  which aimed to safeguard lower castes from the hypocrisy of Brahmins - Satya Shodak Samaj
90. The all India depressed classes federation was started by - Dr Ambedkar
91. The Lahore session of the Indian National Congress held in the year ------- were in a resolution was adopted to gain complete independence from the British - 1929
92. For the upliftment of the backward classes -------- founded the Harijan Sevak Samaj - Mahatam Gandhi
93. Harijan Sevak Samaj was founded in the year -1932
94. Which rock edict of Asoka provided a description of the horror of Kalinga war - 13th rock edict
95. Peshwa, who was popularly known as Nasa Saheb - Balaji Baji Rao
96. The first cotton mill in India was erected in ------- - 1818
97. When Baber invaded India, who was the ruler of Vijayanagara in south India - Krishna Deva Raya 
98. The first jute mill was started by English man George Aeland in 1855, on the banks of - Hooghly
99. The partition of Bengal was made effective from - 1905
100. The battle of Wandi wash was fought between - British and French
101. The Lucknow session of the Congress is memorable for it marked the reunion - Moderate and Extremist parties
102. Who was the founder of the city of Agra - Sikander Lodi
103. What was the name of the party formed by Subhash Chandra Bose after leaving congress - Forward Bloc
104. Who attended the Congress of Depressed Nationalists at Brussels in 1972, on behalf of the National Congress - Jawaharlal Nehru
105. The Allahabad Pillar inscription describes the achievements of - Samudra Gupta
106. Who was the first sovereign sultan of Delhi - Qutab Din Aibak