Test: Modern Indian History- 1 - Class 8 MCQ

New India was the name of the newspaper published in India by Annie Besant to highlight the issues related to the Indian freedom struggle. The newspaper was founded as a means vocalist the views of it's founder, the freedom fighter Dr. Annie Besant.

Swami Vivekananda was a Hindu monk and one of the most celebrated spiritual leaders of India. His original name was Narendranath Dutta. He founded Ramakrishna Mission on May 1, 1897 at Belur Math near Calcutta.

Allan Octavian Hume was not associated with extremist leadership of Indian National Congress. He was a member of the Imperial Civil Service, a political reformer, ornithologist and botanist who worked in British India. He was one of the founders of Indian National Congress.

Debendranath Tagore was an Indian religious reformer and Hindu philosopher. He was one of the founders of the Brahmo religion. 
In 1843, he revived the Brahmo Sabha, which had diminished since the death of Raja Ram Mohan Roy in 1833. Often addressed as ‘Maharshi’, he was undoubtedly one of the greatest religious intellectuals born in India.

Swami Dayanand Saraswati was an Indian social leader and the founder of Arya Samaj. He founded Arya Samaj on 10 April 1875. Members of Arya Samaj believe in one God and reject the worship of idols.

• Bal Gangadhar Tilak was an Indian social reformer and freedom activist. He was one of the prime architects of modern India and probably the strongest advocates of Swaraj or Self Rule for India. 
• Towards his nationalistic goals, Bal Gangadhar Tilak published two newspapers viz. 'Mahratta' in English and 'Kesari' in Marathi. Both the newspapers stressed on making the Indians aware of the glorious past and encouraged the masses to be self reliant. 
• In other words, the newspaper actively propagated the cause of national freedom.

• Sabarmati Ashram was formerly known as Satyagraha Ashram and was was founded on May 25, 1915 in Ahmedabad at Kochrab, when Gandhi returned from South Africa.
•  Later on, it was shifted to the banks of Sabarmati river and then it came to be known as 'Sabarmati Ashram'.
• Gandhi stayed at the Ashram from 1915 to 1933. The Ashram is a witness to many important historical events and thus the ashram was established as a national monument. 

M K Gandhi matriculated at the age of 18. He had left India for the first time on September 4, 1888, to get enrolled in the centuries-old law institute Inner Temple in London. 
Having become a barrister, M.K. Gandhi returned to his homeland in June 1891 and shifted from Rajkot to Mumbai after having decided to practice in the Bombay High Court.

• Warren Hasting the first governor general of India, in the year 1772. He carried out aggressive policies to reform the administrative, judicial and financial system in order to make improvement in the government. He brought the dual system of government to an end in 1772.
• However, Lord Curzon was the governor general and viceroy of India. Lord Dalhousie came to India as it's Governor General in the year 1848. His main purpose was the expansion of British export to India. Sir John Macpherson was an Scottish administrator in India. He was the governor-general of India from 1785-1786. 

Annie Besant was the first woman President of the Indian National Congress. She was a British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer, orator, educationalist, and philanthropist. In late 1917 she was elected as the President of INC.