A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
B) Swami Vivekananda
C) Swami Dayananda Saraswati ✅
D) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
📘 Arya Samaj was founded in 1875 to promote Vedic values.
2. Who is known as the 'Father of Indian Renaissance'?
A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B) Dadabhai Naoroji
C) Raja Ram Mohan Roy ✅
D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
📘 He opposed Sati and promoted women's rights and education.
3. When was the Indian National Congress founded?
A) 1857
B) 1885 ✅
C) 1905
D) 1942
📘 Founded by A.O. Hume at Bombay with W.C. Bonnerjee as first President.
4. Who started the 'Home Rule Movement' in India?
A) Gandhi
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Annie Besant ✅
D) Subhas Chandra Bose
📘 Launched in 1916 for self-governance under British rule.
5. Who was the Viceroy during the Revolt of 1857?
A) Lord Ripon
B) Lord Canning ✅
C) Lord Curzon
D) Lord Dalhousie
📘 Lord Canning was the last Governor-General and first Viceroy.
6. The title 'Kaiser-i-Hind' was awarded to Gandhi by:
A) Queen Victoria
B) British Government ✅
C) Indian National Congress
D) Subhas Chandra Bose
📘 Later returned by Gandhi after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
7. Who was the first Indian to be elected to British Parliament?
A) Surendranath Banerjee
B) B.R. Ambedkar
C) Dadabhai Naoroji ✅
D) G.K. Gokhale
📘 Elected from Finsbury Central in 1892.
8. The 'Drain of Wealth' theory was given by:
A) M.G. Ranade
B) B.R. Ambedkar
C) Dadabhai Naoroji ✅
D) Nehru
📘 Explained how Britain extracted wealth from India.
9. Who gave the slogan 'Swaraj is my birthright'?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) B.G. Tilak ✅
C) S.C. Bose
D) Gokhale
📘 A famous call for independence by Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
10. The Vernacular Press Act was passed by:
A) Lord Lytton ✅
B) Lord Ripon
C) Lord Curzon
D) Lord Canning
📘 Enacted in 1878 to curb freedom of the press.
11. Partition of Bengal was carried out in:
A) 1905 ✅
B) 1911
C) 1947
D) 1857
📘 Lord Curzon partitioned Bengal to divide Hindus and Muslims.
12. Who founded the Ramakrishna Mission?
A) Swami Dayanand
B) Swami Vivekananda ✅
C) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
D) Annie Besant
📘 Founded in 1897 to promote spiritual and social reform.
13. Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred in:
A) 1919 ✅
B) 1920
C) 1905
D) 1930
📘 Took place on 13 April 1919 under General Dyer.
14. Non-Cooperation Movement was launched in:
A) 1921 ✅
B) 1919
C) 1920
D) 1930
📘 Gandhiji launched it in 1921 as part of his non-violent strategy.
15. Who founded the Indian Home Rule League in London?
A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B) Annie Besant
C) Shyamji Krishna Verma ✅
D) V.D. Savarkar
📘 Shyamji established it in 1905 to support Indian independence.
16. Simon Commission was boycotted because:
A) It included only Indians
B) It excluded Indians ✅
C) It proposed partition
D) None of the above
📘 All members were British, hence the slogan “Simon Go Back!”
17. Who led the Salt March with Gandhi?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Sardar Patel
C) Sarojini Naidu ✅
D) C.R. Das
📘 She played a prominent role and was arrested for leading it.
18. Dandi March was started in:
A) 1930 ✅
B) 1931
C) 1921
D) 1942
📘 Started on March 12, 1930, from Sabarmati to Dandi.
19. Quit India Movement was launched in:
A) 1930
B) 1942 ✅
C) 1947
D) 1919
📘 Launched on 8 August 1942 under the slogan “Do or Die”.
20. Who gave the slogan 'Do or Die'?
A) Nehru
B) Patel
C) Gandhi ✅
D) Bose
📘 Given during the Quit India Movement.
21. Who was the founder of the Forward Bloc?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Subhas Chandra Bose ✅
C) Rajendra Prasad
D) B.R. Ambedkar
📘 Subhas Bose founded it in 1939 after resigning from Congress.
22. The Indian National Army (INA) was formed by:
A) Lala Lajpat Rai
B) Rash Behari Bose ✅
C) Bhagat Singh
D) C. Rajagopalachari
📘 Later led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
23. Who gave the slogan ‘Give me blood, I will give you freedom’?
A) Bhagat Singh
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Subhas Chandra Bose ✅
D) Jawaharlal Nehru
📘 Slogan to inspire youth for armed struggle.
24. The capital of British India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi in:
A) 1857
B) 1905
C) 1911 ✅
D) 1947
📘 Announced during Delhi Durbar in 1911.
25. Who established the Banaras Hindu University?
A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Madan Mohan Malaviya ✅
D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
📘 Founded in 1916 for modern Hindu education.
26. Who presided over the Lahore Session (1929) of the INC?
A) Gandhi
B) Nehru ✅
C) Patel
D) Bose
📘 The session where “Purna Swaraj” was declared.
27. The First Round Table Conference was held in:
A) 1930 ✅
B) 1931
C) 1932
D) 1935
📘 Held in London to discuss constitutional reforms.
28. Who was the first Governor-General of independent India?
A) C. Rajagopalachari
B) Lord Mountbatten ✅
C) Nehru
D) Patel
📘 Served from 15 Aug 1947 until June 1948.
29. Gandhi launched Champaran Satyagraha for:
A) Salt
B) Indigo farmers ✅
C) Forest rights
D) Textile workers
📘 It was his first Satyagraha in India (1917).
30. The Rowlatt Act was passed in:
A) 1919 ✅
B) 1920
C) 1930
D) 1942
📘 Allowed arrest without trial; led to nationwide protests.
31. Who founded the Indian National Congress?
A) Gandhi
B) Tilak
C) A.O. Hume ✅
D) Dadabhai Naoroji
📘 A retired British officer in 1885.
32. Gandhi launched the Khilafat Movement with:
A) Subhas Chandra Bose
B) Ali Brothers ✅
C) Nehru
D) Tilak
📘 To protect the Caliphate after WWI.
33. Who formed the Swaraj Party in 1923?
A) C.R. Das & Motilal Nehru ✅
B) Gandhi & Tilak
C) Nehru & Bose
D) Patel & Prasad
📘 To enter legislatures after the Non-Cooperation Movement.
34. 'Poona Pact' was signed between:
A) Gandhi and Jinnah
B) Gandhi and Ambedkar ✅
C) Nehru and Ambedkar
D) Patel and Ambedkar
📘 In 1932, related to separate electorates for Dalits.
35. Who started the Self-Respect Movement?
A) Gandhi
B) Nehru
C) Periyar E.V. Ramasamy ✅
D) B.R. Ambedkar
📘 In Tamil Nadu, against caste and Brahmin dominance.
36. The revolutionary group 'Hindustan Socialist Republican Association' was founded by:
A) Bhagat Singh ✅
B) Subhas Bose
C) Nehru
D) Patel
📘 Fought British rule through armed struggle.
37. The First Indian to become Governor-General of independent India:
A) Rajendra Prasad
B) C. Rajagopalachari ✅
C) Nehru
D) Ambedkar
📘 He succeeded Mountbatten in 1948.
38. Who introduced the Doctrine of Lapse?
A) Lord Wellesley
B) Lord Curzon
C) Lord Dalhousie ✅
D) Lord Canning
📘 Used to annex princely states like Jhansi.
39. Who assassinated General Dyer?
A) Bhagat Singh
B) Udham Singh ✅
C) Chandrasekhar Azad
D) Ram Prasad Bismil
📘 In revenge for Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
40. Cripps Mission was sent to India in:
A) 1942 ✅
B) 1940
C) 1935
D) 1946
📘 To secure Indian cooperation during WWII.
41. Who coined the term 'Drain of Wealth'?
A) M.G. Ranade
B) Dadabhai Naoroji ✅
C) Dada Bhai
D) G.K. Gokhale
📘 Explained how India was being economically exploited.
42. Cabinet Mission came to India in:
A) 1942
B) 1945
C) 1946 ✅
D) 1947
📘 To plan the transfer of power from British to Indians.
43. First President of Indian National Congress:
A) Gandhi
B) W.C. Bonnerjee ✅
C) Motilal Nehru
D) Dada Bhai
📘 He presided over the 1885 Bombay session.
44. Treaty of Bassein was signed by:
A) Marathas and British ✅
B) Mughals and Portuguese
C) British and Tipu
D) British and French
📘 Allowed British to station troops in Maratha territory.
45. Who introduced Western education in India?
A) Lord Hastings
B) Lord Macaulay ✅
C) Lord Ripon
D) Lord Curzon
📘 Through his Minute on Indian Education (1835).
46. Bardoli Satyagraha was led by:
A) Nehru
B) Gandhi
C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel ✅
D) Rajendra Prasad
📘 Against unjust taxation; earned him title "Sardar".
47. Hunter Commission was related to:
A) Education
B) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre ✅
C) Land Revenue
D) Health
📘 Probed the 1919 massacre.
48. Indian Councils Act of 1909 is also known as:
A) Morley-Minto Reforms ✅
B) Montagu-Chelmsford
C) Regulating Act
D) Charter Act
📘 Introduced separate electorates for Muslims.
49. Azad Hind Fauj was formed in:
A) Japan ✅
B) Burma
C) Germany
D) India
📘 With support of Japanese to fight British.
50. Gandhi’s first Satyagraha in India was in:
A) Kheda
B) Bardoli
C) Champaran ✅
D) Dandi
📘 Against indigo planters’ exploitation in 1917.
51. Moplah Rebellion took place in:
A) Tamil Nadu
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Kerala ✅
D) Karnataka
📘 In 1921 by Muslim tenants against British and landlords.
52. The Indian Independence Act was passed in:
A) 1946
B) 1947 ✅
C) 1948
D) 1950
📘 Passed by British Parliament on July 18, 1947.
53. Gandhi's famous journal was:
A) Kesari
B) Young India ✅
C) Sandhya
D) Hind Swaraj
📘 Used to spread his political views.
54. Who was called “Frontier Gandhi”?
A) Nehru
B) Abdul Ghaffar Khan ✅
C) Rajendra Prasad
D) Sarojini Naidu
📘 Also known as Badshah Khan.
55. Nehru Report was prepared in:
A) 1927
B) 1928 ✅
C) 1930
D) 1932
📘 Suggested dominion status; rejected by Muslim League.
56. Who founded the Theosophical Society in India?
A) Annie Besant ✅
B) Blavatsky
C) Tilak
D) Dayanand
📘 Promoted Indian philosophy and education.
57. The Round Table Conferences were held in:
A) India
B) Britain ✅
C) France
D) Germany
📘 Three sessions in London (1930–32).
58. First martyr of 1857 revolt was:
A) Tantia Tope
B) Mangal Pandey ✅
C) Rani Laxmi Bai
D) Kunwar Singh
📘 Fired the first shot at Barrackpore.
59. Swadeshi Movement was part of:
A) Non-Cooperation
B) Bengal Partition Protest ✅
C) Quit India
D) Civil Disobedience
📘 Promoted indigenous goods and boycotting British.
60. Lala Lajpat Rai died due to injuries in protest against:
A) Rowlatt Act
B) Simon Commission ✅
C) Dandi March
D) Jallianwala Massacre
📘 Beaten by police during anti-Simon protest.
61. Who wrote 'Hind Swaraj'?
A) B.G. Tilak
B) Subhas Chandra Bose
C) Mahatma Gandhi ✅
D) Jawaharlal Nehru
📘 Written in 1909, expressing Gandhi’s vision of Indian self-rule.
62. The slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ was given by:
A) Bhagat Singh ✅
B) Gandhi
C) Bose
D) Nehru
📘 It means "Long Live the Revolution".
63. Who led the Revolt of 1857 in Kanpur?
A) Nana Sahib ✅
B) Rani Laxmi Bai
C) Tantia Tope
D) Kunwar Singh
📘 Nana Sahib was the adopted son of Peshwa Baji Rao II.
64. Aligarh Movement was started by:
A) Syed Ahmad Khan ✅
B) Maulana Azad
C) Iqbal
D) Jinnah
📘 To promote modern education among Muslims.
65. Who established the All India Harijan Sangh?
A) B.R. Ambedkar
B) Mahatma Gandhi ✅
C) Rajendra Prasad
D) Nehru
📘 Formed in 1932 to work for Dalits (Harijans).
66. The Indian National Army’s slogan was:
A) Jai Hind ✅
B) Inquilab Zindabad
C) Vande Mataram
D) Bharat Mata ki Jai
📘 Popularised by Subhas Chandra Bose.
67. Who started the 'Servants of India Society'?
A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale ✅
B) Gandhi
C) Tilak
D) Annie Besant
📘 Founded in 1905 to train social workers.
68. Gandhi called off Non-Cooperation Movement after:
A) Jallianwala Bagh
B) Dandi March
C) Chauri Chaura incident ✅
D) Civil Disobedience
📘 Violence in Chauri Chaura (1922) led him to suspend it.
69. Who called Gandhi ‘Mahatma’ for the first time?
A) Nehru
B) Tagore ✅
C) Tilak
D) Bose
📘 Tagore gave him the title "Mahatma" in 1915.
70. Who was the first Indian woman president of INC?
A) Indira Gandhi
B) Sarojini Naidu ✅
C) Annie Besant
D) Aruna Asaf Ali
📘 She presided over the 1925 Kanpur session.
71. The Revolt of 1857 was called the 'First War of Independence' by:
A) V.D. Savarkar ✅
B) Gandhi
C) Nehru
D) Mangal Pandey
📘 In his 1909 book “The First War of Indian Independence”.
72. Who led the revolt in Lucknow in 1857?
A) Begum Hazrat Mahal ✅
B) Rani Laxmi Bai
C) Kunwar Singh
D) Bahadur Shah Zafar
📘 She took charge after the British annexation of Awadh.
73. Gandhi started Civil Disobedience Movement with:
A) Non-Cooperation
B) Salt Satyagraha ✅
C) Khilafat
D) Quit India
📘 Initiated in 1930 by breaking the Salt Law.
74. Who was the Viceroy during Quit India Movement?
A) Lord Linlithgow ✅
B) Lord Irwin
C) Lord Wavell
D) Lord Mountbatten
📘 Linlithgow was Viceroy from 1936–43.
75. Who was known as the “Iron Man of India”?
A) Bhagat Singh
B) Subhas Bose
C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel ✅
D) Nehru
📘 For unifying India after Independence.
76. Who coined the term ‘Pakistan’?
A) Jinnah
B) Liaquat Ali
C) Choudhary Rahmat Ali ✅
D) Iqbal
📘 He proposed the name in 1933.
77. Which Act introduced Dyarchy in provinces?
A) Govt of India Act 1919 ✅
B) Act 1935
C) Indian Councils Act
D) Regulating Act
📘 Dyarchy split subjects into reserved and transferred.
78. The leader of Ghadar Party was:
A) Rash Behari Bose
B) Lala Hardayal ✅
C) M.N. Roy
D) V.D. Savarkar
📘 Founded in 1913 in the USA to fight British rule.
79. Who was the last Governor-General of India?
A) Lord Mountbatten
B) C. Rajagopalachari ✅
C) Nehru
D) Wellesley
📘 He served from 1948–50 after Mountbatten.
80. First woman Governor of an Indian state?
A) Sarojini Naidu ✅
B) Indira Gandhi
C) Annie Besant
D) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
📘 Governor of United Provinces (U.P.) in 1947.
81. INA trials were held at:
A) Lahore
B) Bombay
C) Red Fort ✅
D) Delhi Assembly
📘 INA officers were tried by British at Red Fort (1945).
82. Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed in:
A) 1930
B) 1931 ✅
C) 1932
D) 1935
📘 Led to Gandhi’s participation in Second Round Table Conference.
83. “Discovery of India” was written by:
A) Gandhi
B) Subhas Bose
C) Nehru ✅
D) Ambedkar
📘 Written during Nehru’s imprisonment in 1944.
84. The slogan ‘Vande Mataram’ was first used during:
A) Revolt of 1857
B) Partition of Bengal ✅
C) Salt March
D) Quit India
📘 Became national cry of protest in 1905.
85. INA motto was:
A) Freedom, Justice, Unity
B) Unity, Faith, Sacrifice
C) Ittehad, Itmad, Qurbani ✅
D) Jai Hind
📘 Meaning Unity, Faith and Sacrifice.
86. Who founded the Satya Shodhak Samaj?
A) Jyotirao Phule ✅
B) Ambedkar
C) Tagore
D) Dayanand
📘 Founded in 1873 for backward caste upliftment.
87. Which Viceroy introduced the Ilbert Bill?
A) Lord Ripon ✅
B) Curzon
C) Lytton
D) Minto
📘 Allowed Indian judges to try Europeans (1883).
88. First Muslim President of INC?
A) Badruddin Tyabji ✅
B) Maulana Azad
C) Jinnah
D) Abdul Ghaffar Khan
📘 Third session of INC in 1887.
89. 'Freedom is my birthright' was said by:
A) Gandhi
B) Nehru
C) Tilak ✅
D) Subhas Bose
📘 Tilak popularised this slogan in 1916.
90. British East India Company was formed in:
A) 1600 ✅
B) 1612
C) 1707
D) 1757
📘 Under charter from Queen Elizabeth I.
91. Who authored ‘India Wins Freedom’?
A) Gandhi
B) Ambedkar
C) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad ✅
D) Sardar Patel
📘 Autobiographical account of independence struggle.
92. Who founded the Indian Association in 1876?
A) Surendranath Banerjee ✅
B) Tilak
C) Dadabhai
D) A.O. Hume
📘 For political education and reform.
93. Moplah Rebellion was mainly:
A) Peasant uprising ✅
B) Hindu-Muslim conflict
C) Worker’s movement
D) Tax revolt
📘 Muslim peasants revolted in Kerala in 1921.
94. Who started 'Kesari' and 'Maratha' journals?
A) Tilak ✅
B) Gokhale
C) Gandhi
D) Tagore
📘 To promote nationalism.
95. Who was the last Mughal emperor?
A) Bahadur Shah Zafar ✅
B) Akbar Shah II
C) Shah Alam II
D) Aurangzeb
📘 Deposed after the 1857 revolt.
96. The title ‘Lokmanya’ was given to:
A) Tilak ✅
B) Nehru
C) Gandhi
D) Gokhale
📘 Means "accepted by the people".
97. Founder of Muslim League:
A) Jinnah
B) Aga Khan ✅
C) Liaquat Ali
D) Syed Ahmed Khan
📘 Founded in 1906 with Aga Khan as President.
98. The Salt Satyagraha began at:
A) Ahmedabad
B) Dandi ✅
C) Bombay
D) Surat
📘 Marched from Sabarmati to Dandi (1930).
99. Who led the Revolt of 1857 in Bihar?
A) Kunwar Singh ✅
B) Mangal Pandey
C) Rani Laxmi Bai
D) Begum Hazrat Mahal
📘 A 80-year-old zamindar of Jagdishpur.
100. The capital of India was shifted to Delhi from Calcutta in:
A) 1911 ✅
B) 1905
C) 1947
D) 1857
📘 Announced by King George V at Delhi Durbar.
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