Test: SSC CGL Previous Year Questions: History (2023-20) - 8 - SSC CGL MCQ

Lala Lajpat Rai (Freedom ghters). He was also called ‘Punjab Kesari’ and 'Lion of Punjab'. Bal Gangadhar Tilak - Founded the Home Rule League in 1916. Simon Commission - Indian Statutory Commission, group of seven Members, not a single Indian member in it, Headed by Sir John Simon. Simon Commission came to India in 1928.

Usha Mehta. Awards - Padma Vibhushan (1998). Bhikaiji Cama - First person to hoist the Indian ag at foreign land (Germany) in 1907. Sarojini Naidu (Nightingale of India) - First Indian woman President of the Indian National Congress and Governor of state (Uttar Pradesh) after independence. Annie Besant - First woman President of Indian national Congress. Sucheta Kriplani - First woman Chief Minister (Uttar Pradesh) of Independent India.

Bagha Jatin (Jatindranath Mukherjee) - Born on 7th December 1879 in Kayagram (Nadia district) present-day Bangladesh. He acquired the moniker ‘Bagha Jatin’ when he single-handedly killed a Bengal tiger in 1906. Bir Tikendrajit Singh - He was a prince of the independent Kingdom of Manipur

19 March 1940 by Tridib Chaudhuri. It has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association . The rst general secretary of the party was Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee.

Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1929. Surya Kumar Sen was hanged on 12 January 1934 by the British for the Chittagong Armoury Raid (1930). Sachindra Nath Sanyal was co-founder of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) in 1924. Barindra Kumar Ghosh (younger brother of Sri Aurobindo) published the Bengali weekly Jugantar patrika (1906).

Ashwini Kumar Dutta founded the Swadesh Bandhab Samiti on 6 th August 1905 in Barisal district (Bangladesh). Weekly paper: Barisal Hitaishi. He was responsible for the creation of the Cooperative Hindustan Bank in 1908. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (Chandrasekhar Azad, Ashfaqulla Khan, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru).

Vasudev Balwant Phadke - Known as the First Revolutionary and also the ‘Father of militant nationalism in India.’ Birsa Munda also known as Dharti Aaba (Father of Earth), belonged to the Munda tribe in the Chotanagpur Plateau area.

Bengal. Satish Chandra Basu established Anushilan Samiti in 1902.

Bharat Naujawan Sabha was founded in Lahore (1926) by Bhagat Singh.

Digambar Biswas and Bishnu Biswas of Nadia district Bengal led Indigo revolt. This Revolt began as a nonviolent strike in March 1859, as the ryots of a village in Bengal's Nadia district all agreed to refuse to grow any more indigo.

‘Satyameva Jayate’. Malaviya also served on the Imperial Legislative Council (1909–20). Vande Matram was written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. The famous slogan Inquilab Zindabad was given by Maulana Hasrat Mohani. Jai Jawan Jai Kisan was the slogan given by Lal Bahadur Shastri.

Udham Singh. O'Dwyer, was shot dead at a joint meeting of the East India Association and the Central Asian Society in Caxton Hall, in retaliation for the massacre in Jallianwala Bagh Amritsar.

Madan Lal Dhingra was an Indian revolutionary independence activist. While studying in England, he assassinated Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a British ocial, cited as one of the rst acts of revolution in the Indian independence movement in the 20th century.

Mahad Satyagraha: It is also known as the Chavdar Tank Satyagraha, begun in Mahad (Raigad), Maharashtra. It centered around the Chavdar Tank, a public water source that was reserved exclusively for upper castes. In 1923, The Bombay Legislative Council passed a resolution that people from the depressed classes should be allowed to use places which were built and maintained by the government.

Sucheta Kriplani (First female Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1963 - 67). She sang Vande Mataram on 14th August 1947 in the opening session of Parliament. Aruna Asaf Ali hoisting the Indian National ag at the Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay. Sarojini Naidu (rst female Governor of Uttar Pradesh) convinced Mahatma Gandhi to permit women to participate in the Dandi March.

Lahori Gate. The National Flag of India was adopted on 22 July 1947, Designed by Pingali Venkayya. The President of India unfurls the Indian ag on Republic Day (January 26) at Kartavya Path (formerly called Rajpath) in New Delhi.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak. He is also known as Lokmanya Tilak. Mahatma Gandhi had called him “The Maker of Modern India”. The Congress split into two parts - Moderates and Extremists in 1907 at the Surat Session. Moderate leaders - Madan Mohan Malviya, M.G.Ranade, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Dadabhai Naoroji, Surendranath Banerjee. Extremist leaders - Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Aurobindo Ghosh, Rajnarayan Bose, A K Dutt, V.O.C. Pillai.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Other Co-founding members of Fergusson College :- Vaman Shriram Apte, Vishnushashtri Chiplunkar, Mahadeo Ballal Namjoshi and Gopal Krishna Agarkar. Subhas Chandra Bose Founded the ‘Forward Bloc' in 1939. Lala Lajpat Rai founded “The Indian Home Rule League of America” in New York in 1917.

Vedaranyam. C. Rajagopalachari broke the salt law in 1930 at Vedaranyam, a small coastal town in the then Tanjore District. The rst Indian governor of free India was C. Rajagopalachari.

Rani of Jhansi Regiment was the name of the women's regiment in the Indian National Army founded by Subhash Chandra Bose.

Bodhachandra Singh, signed the Instrument of Accession with the Indian government on the assurance that the internal autonomy of Manipur would be maintained. ‘Instrument of Accession’ which meant that their state agreed to become a part of the Union of India.

Nagpur. Flag Satyagraha is a part of civil disobedience during the Indian independence movement.

Kartar Singh Sarabha. Ghadar Conspiracy (1915) - Plan to initiate a pan-India mutiny in the British Indian Army during World War by the Ghadar Party (United States), the Berlin Committee (Germany), the Indian revolutionary underground in British India and the German Foreign Office.

Veda Samaj. Organizations and Social reformers- Brahmo Samaj (Raja Ram Mohan Roy), Prarthana Samaj (Atmaram Pandurang), Arya Samaj (Dayanand Saraswati), Theosophical Movement (Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott), Ramakrishna Mission (Swami Vivekananda), Satyashodhak Samaj (Jyotirao Govindrao Phule).

Arya Samaj:- Formation - 10 April 1875 (Bombay). Founder - Dayananda Saraswati. Purpose - Educational, Religious studies, Spirituality, Social Reforms.

Poona Sarvajanik Sabha (1870). Important Organization and their founders : Abhinav Bharat organization founded by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 1904. Indian National Congress : Established in 1885, by Sir Allan Octavian Hume. The Bombay Presidency Association was founded in 1885 in response to Lytton's reactionary policies and the Ilbert Bill controversy.

Bhimrao Ambedkar. It was a movement to allow lower caste people to enter temples. Dalits Movements led by Bhimrao Ambedkar: The second biggest movement for the entry of untouchables in the famous Kalaram temple of Nashik in 1930. Mahad Satyagraha (1927) was a movement for the Dalits to get the right to drink water from the tank.

Lokmanya Tilak (Bal Gangadhar Tilak): Tilak launched the Indian Home Rule League in April 1916 at Belgaum (Annie Besant launched the Home Rule League in September 1916 at Madras). His famous declaration “Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it”. The British Government termed him as the "Father of Indian Unrest".

Arya Samaj: Founded in 1875 by Swami Dayanand Saraswati. Dev Samaj (Divine Society) - Founded by Pandit Shiv Narayan Agnihotri in 1887 at Lahore.

Debendranath Tagore (Father of Rabindranath Tagore) founded the Tattvabodhini Sabha in 1839. He joined the Brahmo Samaj in 1842, which was founded by Raja Rammohan Roy in 1828.