Indian National Movement
Indian National Movement
Indian National Movement
Santosh Kumar
Keralaboys.net
4/19/2015
1 Indian National Movement : Keralaboys.net
2. Who were the main architects of the Indian of the Indian National
Conference?
Ans. Surendranath Banerji and Ananda Mohan Bose
3. In which year was the first session of the Indian National Congress
organized ?
Ans. 1885 December (Bombay)
1
2 Indian National Movement : Keralaboys.net
10. Who was described by Gandhiji as the most perfect man in the
political fied?
Ans. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
13. Name the retired English Civil servant who is known as the
founder of Indian National Congress?
Ans. AO Hume
14. Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress?
Ans. WC Banerji
15. How many delegates attended the first session of the Congress?
Ans. 72(Seventy two)
2
3 Indian National Movement : Keralaboys.net
16. Who was the first woman to address a Congress session in 1890?
Ans. Kadambini Ganguly
17. Who is associated with the Safety Value theory of the Congress?
Ans. AO Hume
18. Who was the British Viceroy at the time of the formation of Indian
National Congress?
Ans. Lord Dufferin
21. Who put forward the Drain Theory to explain the British
exploitation of India?
Ans. Dadabhai Naoroji
3
4 Indian National Movement : Keralaboys.net
23. Which Viceroy said that the Congress is tottering to its fall and
one of my great ambitions, while in India is to assist it to a
peaceful demise?
Ans. Lord Curzon
25. Who was the first to raise the slogan India for the Indians?
Ans. Dayananda Saraswathi
27. Who said that If there is a sin in this world, it is weakness; avoid
all weakness, weakness is sin, weakness is death?
Ans. Swami Vivekananda
4
5 Indian National Movement : Keralaboys.net
31. In which year was the partition of Bengal formally came into
effect?
Ans. 16 October 1905
32. Which session of the Congress declared that the goal of the Indian
National Congress was self-government or Swaraj like the United
Kingdom or the colonies?
Ans. 1905 (Calcutta)
33. Who presided over the 1906 session of Indian National Congress
at Calcutta?
Ans. Dadabhai Naoroji
34. Which session of the Congress witnessed the first split in the
organization?
Ans. Surat (1907)
5
6 Indian National Movement : Keralaboys.net
40. Which artist was the first ot receive a scholarship offered by the
Indian Society of Oriental Art, founded in 1907?
Ans. Nandalal Bose
42. In which year the British rulers decided to shift the capital of India
to Delhi from Calcutta?
Ans. 1911
43. In which year the British pass the Seditious Meetings Act ?
Ans. 1907
44. Which national leader was sent to Mandalay (Burma) jail for six
years in 1908?
Ans. Bal Gangadhar Thilak
6
7 Indian National Movement : Keralaboys.net
45. Which British Secretary of State was better known for the Carrot
& Stick Policy towards the nationalists?
Ans. John Morley
52. In 1905, who started an Indian Home Rule Society named India
House as a centre for Indian students in London?
Ans. Shyamji Krishnavarma
7
8 Indian National Movement : Keralaboys.net
60. In which American city was the United India House set up?
Ans. Seattle
61. The Indian Home Rule Leagues were organized on the lines of the
Ans. Irish Home Rule Leagues
8
9 Indian National Movement : Keralaboys.net
62. Who were the leaders of two Home Rule Leagues in India?
Ans. BG Thilak & Annie Besant
64. In which year was the reunion of the Moderates & Extremists of
the Congress?
Ans. 1916(Lucknow)
65. Who presided over the 1916 Session of the Congress at Lucknow?
Ans. Ambika Charan Mujumdar