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III Semester MA History

HIS 3C 02 DISCOURSES ON INDIAN NATIONALISM

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who developed the term Discourse?

(a) Hans Kohn

(b) Michel Foucault

(c) Ferdinand de Saussure

(d) Bernard Berelson

2. Who was the first propounder of the doctrine of “passive resistance”?

(a) B.G. Tilak

(b) Aurobindo Ghosh

(c) G. K. Gokhale

(d) M. K. Gandhi

3. Who described Bal Gangadhar Tilak as the “Father of Indian Unrest”?

(a) Valentine Chirol

(b) Disraeli

(c) Minto II

(d) Chelmsford

4. In 1922 Gaya session of the Congress, who moved a proposal to enter the legislatures?

(a) Motilal Nehru

(b) M. R. Jayakar

(c) C. R. Das

(d) N. C. Kelkar



5. Which of the following political leaders drafted the Quit India Resolution?

(a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

(b) Jawahar Lal Nehru

(c) Mahatma Gandhi

(d) Acharya Narendra De

6. Which session of Indian National Congress endorsed the Gandhi-Irwin Pact?

(a) Faizpur Session, 1937

(b) Karachi Session, 1931

(c) Lahore Session, 1929

(d) Karachi session, 1930

7. Congress rule lasted for how many months after the formation of ministries in the provinces in 1937?

(a) 29 months

(b) 28 months

(c) 30 months

(d) 31 months

8. Who was the first Muslim president of the Indian National Congress?

(a) Muhammed Ali Jinnah

(b) Badruddin Tyabji

(c) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

(d) Abul Kalam Azad

9.Which Swaraj party member became speaker of the Central Legislative Assembly in 1925

(a) Subash Chandra Bose

(b) Vallabhai Patel



(c) Vithalbhai Patel

(d) C. R. Das

10. Partition of Bengal took place in which of the following year?

(a) 1903

(b) 1905

(c) 1907

(d) 1909

11. Who said: ‘This orderly disciplined anarchy should go, and if as a result there is complete lawlessness, I would risk it?

(a) Jawaharlal Nehru

(b) Gandhi

(c) Rajagopalachari

(d) Vallabhbhai Patel

12. Who founded the Indian National Association?

(a) Sir Pherozshah Mehta

(b) Romesh Chunder Dutt

(c) P. Anandacharlu

(d) Surendranath Banerjee

13. Who was the first woman president of Indian National Congress?

(a) Sarojini Naidu

(b) Sucheta Kripalani

(c) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

(d) Annie Besant



14. Young Bengal Movement was launched by

(a) M. M. Malaviya

(b) Vivian Derozio

(c) Motilal Nehru

(d) N C Kelkar

15. Who made the ‘Deepavali Declaration’ and when?

(a) Lord Irwin in 1929

(b) Lord Linlithgow in 1940

(c) Gandhi in 1930

(d) Subhas Bose in 1941

16. Who told that Indian National Congress represents only microscopic minorities?

(a) Lord Curzon

(b) Lord Dufferin

(c) Lord Minto

(d) None of these

17. Who was the founder president of Swarajya party?

(a) Motilal Nehru

(b) Subhas Chandra Bose.

(c) C. R. Das

(d) Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy

18. At which among the following places, the Muslim League was founded in 1906?

(a) Kolkata

(b) Murshidabad

(c) Dhaka

(d) Lucknow



19. What is the name of the newspaper published by the Indian Muslim League?

(a) Quam

(b) Inquilab

(c) Star of lndia

(d) Bombay Chronicle

20. Who among the following leaders was not moderate?

(a) Dada Bhai Naoroji

(b) Anand Charlu

(c) Bipin Chandra Pal

(d) Madan Mohan Malviya

21. “India’s last war of independence has begun Father of our nation! In this holy war of India’s liberation, we ask for your blessing and good wishes”. Who said this?

(a) Jawaharlal Nehru

(b) M. R. Jayakar

(c) Subash Chandra Bose

(d) Sardar Vallabhai Patel

22. Who started the English weekly ‘New India’?

(a) Lala Lajpat Rai

(b) Bipin Chandra Pal

(c) Dada Bhai Naoroji

(d) Madan Mohan Malviya

23. Who said that Indian National Congress is a ‘begging institute’?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi

(b) Bipin Chandra Pal



(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(d) Aurobindo Ghosh

24. In which year the Simla Conference was held?

(a) 1944

(b) 1931

(c) 1929

(d) 1945

25. At which session a split occurred in Indian national Congress?

(a) Madras session of 1908

(b) Calcutta session of 1901

(c) Surat session of 1917

(d) Lahore session of 1900

26.Who is the author of The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories?

(a) Partha Chatterjee

(b) Romila Thapar

(c) Ramachandra Guha

(d) D. N. Jha

27. Which of the following event was the reason for the withdrawn of Non-cooperation movement?

(a) Chauri Chaura incident

(b) Jallianwala massacre

(c) Arrest of Gandhi

(d) None

28. The Quit India Movement is also known as

(a) Swadeshi Movement

(b) Home Rule Movement



(c) August Kranti

(d) Rowlett Satyagraha

29. Who is the author of the book Poverty and un-British rule in India?

(a) R.C. Dutta

(b) Dadabhai Naoroji

(c) Purushottamdas Thakurdas

(d) P.C. Ray

30. The Ghadar Party was founded (November 1913) at San Francisco USA by

(a) Madam Bhikaji Cama

(b) Lala Har Dayal

(c) Shyamji Krishana Verma

(d) Both (a) and (b) above

31. Who threw two bombs on the Door of the Central Assembly in New Delhi on April 8, 1929?

(a) Bhagat Singh

(b) Batukeshwar Dutt

(c) Raj Guru

(d) Both (a) and (b) above

32. The author of A Nation in the Making is

(a) S. N. Banerjee

(b) Mahatma Gandhi

(c) A. O. Hume

(d) B. G. Tilak

33. Who declared “Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it”?



(a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(b) Bal Gangadhara Tilak

(c) Lala Lajpat Rai

(d) K.T Telang

34. Which was the newspaper established by the Indian leader Maulana Abul Kalam Azad?

(a) Indian Mirror

(b) Al Hind

(c) Al Khabar

(d) Al Hilal

35. Who was the first Governor General of the new Indian Dominion?

(a) Rajendra Prasad

(b) Vallabhbhai Patel

(c) Rajagopalachari

(d) Lord Mountbatten

36. Who started Sivaji festival?

(a) G. K. Gokhale

(b) S. N. Banerjee

(c) B. G. Tilak

(d) Lala Lajpat Rai

37. The All India Muslim league was founded by

(a) Maulana Ahmed Ali

(b) Mohammad Ali Jinnah

(c) Agha Khan

(d) Hakim Ajmal Khan



38. Who is known as the Frontier Gandhi?

(a) Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad

(b) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

(c) Syed Ahmed Khan

(d) Asaf Ali

39. In which year was the partition of Bengal annulled?

(a) 1910

(b) 1919

(c) 1911

(d) 1915

40. The Komagata Maru incident took place in the year

(a) 1912

(b) 1914

(c) 1917

(d) 1918

41. Who wrote Ananda math?

(a) Mahashwetha Devi

(b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

(c) Iswarchandra Vidyasagar

(d) Rabindranath Tagore

42. Who led the armed raid on the government armoury at Chittagong in 1930?

(a) Chandra Shekhar Azad

(b) Bhagat Singh

(c) Surya Sen

(d) Sukhdev



43. Who published Sambad Kaumudi, a Bengali weekly newspaper from Kolkata?

(a) S. N. Banerjee

(b) Rabindranath Tagore

(c) Iswarchandra Vidyasagar

(d) Ram Mohan Roy

44. Which INC session was presided over by Lala Lajpat Rai?

(a) Gauhati session in 1926

(b) Calcutta session in 1920

(c) Ahmedabad session in 1921

(d) Kanpur session in 1925

45. The Rowlatt Act was passed in the year

(a) 1919

(b) 1925

(c) 1927

(d) 1930

46. When did the Cripps Mission visit India?

(a) 1941

(b) 1942

(c) 1943

(d) 1944

47. The Simon Commission was boycotted by Indians because

(a) It sought to curb civil liberties of the Indians

(b) It proposed to partition India

(c) It was an all-white commission without Indian representation



(d) It proposed measures to contain nationalism

48. Who among of the following was the founder of society called Abhinav Bharat?

(a) Aurobindo

(b) Bhagat Singh

(c) V. D. Savarkar

(d) Lala Lajpat Rai

49. The first newspaper which was published in India was

(a) The Calcutta Gazette

(b) The Bombay Gazette

(c) The Oriental Magazine of Calcutta

(d) The Bengal Gazette

50. Which session of INC was presided over by Sarojini Naidu?

(a) Calcutta session in 1920

(b) Kanpur session in 1925

(c) Gauhati session in 1926

(d) Ahmedabad session in 1921

51. Whom did Gandhi consider as his political guru??

(a) Pheroze Shah Mehta

(b) B.G. Tilak

(c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(d) Dadabhai Naoroji

52. In which year Sati was abolished?

(a) 1828

(b) 1829



(c) 1831

(d) 1825

53. Who was the first Governor-General of India.

(a) Lord Dufferin

(b) William Bentick

(c) Lord Mountbatten

(d) Lord Wellesley

54. The leader of revolt of 1857 in Lucknow was __?

(a) Tantia Tope

(b) Begum Hazrat Mahal

(c) Maulavi Ahmadullah

(d) Birjis Qadir

55. Who was the only Viceroy of India to be murdered in office?

(a) Lord Dalhousie

(b) Lord Auckland

(c) Lord Mayo

(d) Lord Linlithgow

56. Which among the following princely states of British India had the highest number of the population?

(a) Travancore

(b) Hyderabad

(c) Baroda

(d) Mysore

57. Who founded the weekly newspaper Common Weal?

(a) Abul Kalam Azad

(b) Annie Besant



(c) Md. Ali Jinnah

(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

58. Who among the following was the first Indian to get selected in ICS (Indian Civil Services)?

(a) S. N. Banerjee

(b) Debendranath Tagore

(c) Subash Chandra Bose

(d) Satyendra Nath Tagore

59. Who among the following leader presided the historic 1916 Lucknow Session of the Congress?

(a) Annie Besant

(b) Madan Mohan Malviya

(c) Ambika Charan Majumdar

(d) Subhas Chandra Bose

60. Khilafat Movement was organised to protest the injustice done to?

(a) Egypt

(b) Turkey

(c) Iraq

(d) Iran

61. After the failure of the Civil Disobedience Movement, Mahatma Gandhi laid emphasis on

(a) Violence

(b) Constructive programmes

(c) Compromise with the British

(d) Withdrawal from politics

62. Who said The Simon Commission Report should be thrown on a heap of rubbish?

(a) Motilal Nehru



(b) Shivaswami Ayyar

(c) Mohammad Ali Jinnah

(d) Subash Chandra Bose

63. In which session did the Indian National Congress declare Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) to be its goal?

(a) Belgaum 1924

(b) Lucknow, 1916

(c) Tripuri, 1939

(d) Lahore, 1929

64. In which year was English recommended as the medium of instruction for higher education in India by Lord Macaulay?

(a) 1821

(b) 1833

(c) 1858

(d) 1835

65. In which language was Kesari, a newspaper started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak published?

(a) Marathi

(b) English

(c) Hindi

(d) Urdu

66. Who is popularly known as Lokhitwadi?

(a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(b) C. R. Das

(c) Gopal Hari Deshmukh

(d) Motilal Nehru

67. Who founded the Deccan Education Society to impart teachings about India culture to India’s youth?



(a) B. G. Tilak


(c) C. R. Das

(d) Mahatma Gandhi

68. The Muslim League demanded a separate state for the Muslims in the year:

(a) 1920

(b) 1930

(c) 1940

(d) 1946

69. The Hunter Commission was appointed by the British to probe the:

(a) Jallianwala Bagh tragedy

(b) Chauri-Chaura incident

(c) Khilafat Movement

(d) Chittagong Armoury raid

70. In 1905, who founded the Servants of India Society?

(a) Bhagat Singh

(b) Rash Behari Bose

(c) G. K. Gokhale

(d) Aurobindo Gosh

71. The system of communal electorate was first introduced by the

(a) Indian Council Act of 1892

(b) Minto-Morley Reforms of 1909

(c) Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms of 1919

(d) Government of India Act of 1935

72. Who was the Viceroy of British India when the Indian National Congress was formed?



(a) Lord Dalhousie

(b) Lord Willington

(c) Lord Irwin

(d) Lord Dufferin

73. Which party was in power in the U. K. when India became independent?

(a) Liberal

(b) Conservative

(c) Labour

(d) None of the above

74. Who among the following was the editor of the journal “The Indian Sociologist”?

(a) Shyamji Krishna Varma


(c) Abul Kalam Azad

(d) Md. Ali Jinnah

75. The headquarters of Theosophical Society of India is at

(a) Pune

(b) Nasik

(c) Adayar

(d) Coimbatore

76. Which session of the INC was presided over by M. K. Gandhi?

(a) Kakinada Session, 1923

(b) Meerut Session, 1947

(c) Belgaum Session, 1924

(d) Karachi Session, 1931

77. The members of Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan’s Movement were known as?



(a) Khuda-i-Khidmatgars

(b) Khidmatgars

(c) Blue shirts

(d) Yellow Shirts

78. Who is the founder of Bengal Chemical & Pharmaceutical Works, in 1901?

(a) Ram Mohan Roy

(b) Surya Sen

(c) P. C. Ray

(d) Prafulla Chaki

79. Who advised M. K. Gandhi to tour India for a year before embarking upon any political work?

(a) B. G. Tilak

(b) G. K. Gokhale

(c) S. N. Banerjee

(d) Aurobindo Gosh

80. Gandhi established the Phoenix Farm in

(a) England

(b) South Africa

(c) Gujarat

(d) None of the above

81. Swadeshi Movement started in India during:

(a) The Champaran Satyagraha

(b) Anti-Bengal Partition agitation

(c) The protest against Rowlatt Act

(d) Non co-operation movement

82. The founder of Theosophical Society of India is



(a) Sarojini Naidu

(b) Annie Besant

(c) Madame H. P. Blavatsky

(d) Sister Nivedita

83. Who wrote Savitri?

(a) Jyothiba Phule

(b) Aurobindo

(c) Sree Ramakrishna

(d) P. C. Ray

84. Who founded Prarthana Samaj?

(a) Atmaram Pandurang

(b) Jyothiba Phule

(c) Ram Mohan Roy

(d) Sree Ramakrishna

85. Who among the following is the author of India Unrest?

(a) Valentine Chirol

(b) John Ruskin

(c) Rudyard Kipling

(d) James Mill

86. Who among the following is the writer of the book Satyartha Prakash?

(a) Swami Vivekananda

(b) Annie Besant

(c) Dayanand Saraswati

(d) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

87. Who chaired the first Roundtable Conference in 1930?



(a) Neville Chamberlain

(b) Stanley Baldwin

(c) Ramsay MacDonald

(d) Clement Attlee

88. Purna Swaraj or the complete independence was demanded by the Congress in which of the following session?

(a) Madras session 1927

(b) Lahore session 1929

(c) Bombay session 1918

(d) Delhi session 1932

89. Aligarh Movement was launched by

(a) Asaf Ali

(b) Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad

(c) Syed Ahmed Khan

(d) Abdul Gaffar Khan

90. Who published the newspaper “Young India”?

(a) M.K. Gandhi

(b) Lala Jagat Narayan

(c) S.A. Dange

(d) K.M. Pannikar

91. Poona Pact was signed between which of the following?

(a) Gandhi and Ramsay Macdonald

(b) Gandhi and B.R. Ambedkar

(c) Gandhi and Lord Irwin

(d) B.R. Ambedkar and Lord Irwin

92. Who was the President of the 1885 INC session in Bombay?



(a) R. C. Dutt

(b) W.C. Banerjee

(c) Dinshaw Edulji Wacha

(d) Dadabhai Naoroji

93. Who is known as Punjab Kesari?

(a) Lala Haradayal

(b) Lala Lajpat Rai

(c) bhagat Singh

(d) Ajit Singh

94. The National Council for Education was set up in which year?

(a) 1906

(b) 1908

(c) 1909

(d) 1911

95. First All Kerala Provincial Conference was at

(a) Cheruthuruthi

(b) Kochi

(c) Calicut

(d) Ottappalam

96. Who was the first British president of Indian National Congress?

(a) Badruddin Tyabji

(b) William Wedderburn

(c) Alfred Webb

(d) George Yule

97. Who launched the Self-Respect Movement in 1925?



(a) Tiruppur Kumaran

(b) E. V. Ramaswamy Naicker

(c) V.O. Chidambaram Pillai

(d) Subramania Bharati

98. Who represented INC in the second Roundtable Conference?

(a) B. R. Ambedkar

(b) Mahatma Gandhi

(c) M. R. Jayakar

(d) C. R. Das

99. Satyashodhak Samaj was a social reform society founded by

(a) G. K. Gokhale

(b) Jyotiba Phule

(c) Atmaram Pandurang

(d) M. G. Ranade

100. In which year Muslim League was founded?

(a) 1909

(b) 1906

(c) 1917

(d) 1921



Answer Key

1.b 11.b 21.c 31.d 41.b 51.c 61.b 71.b 81.b 91.b 2.b 12.d 22.c 32.a 42.c 52.b 62.b 72.d 82.c 92.b 3.a 13.d 23.d 33.b 43.d 53.b 63.d 73.c 83.b 93.b 4.c 14.b 24.d 34.d 44.b 54.b 64.d 74.a 84.a 94.a 5.b 15.a 25.c 35.d 45.a 55.c 65.a 75.c 85.a 95.d 6.b 16.b 26.a 36.c 46.b 56.b 66.c 76.c 86.c 96.d 7.b 17.c 27.a 37.c 47.c 57.b 67.a 77.a 87.c 97.b 8.b 18.c 28.c 38.b 48.c 58.d 68.c 78.b 88.b 98.b 9.c 19.c 29.b 39.c 49.d 59.c 69.a 79.b 89.c 99.b 10.b 20.c 30.b 40.b 50.b 60.b 70.c 80.b 90.a 100.b

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