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 Pinnacle  History 
 Sol.826.(b)  Atmiya  Sabha.  Brahmo 
 Samaj  {Raja  Ram  Mohan  Roy  founded 
 Brahmo  Sabha  in  1828,  Aim  -  worship  of 
 the  eternal  God.  It  split  into  two  in  1866 
 (Brahmo  Samaj  of  India  led  by  Keshub 
 Chandra  Sen  and  Adi  Brahmo  Samaj  led 
 by  Debendranath  Tagore),  Prominent 
 Leaders:  Debendranath  Tagore,  Keshub 
 Chandra  Sen,  Pt.  Sivnath  Shastri,  and 
 Rabindranath Tagore}. 
 Q.827.  Vishnushastri  Chiplunkar  started 
 a  monthly  Marathi  magazine  __________, 
 in 1874 for the cause of social reform. 
 Graduate Level 04/08/2022 (Shift - 2) 
 (a) Prabhakar  (b) Kesari 
 (c) Nibandhmala     (d) Pudhari 
 Sol.827.(c)  Nibandhmala.  Gopal  Hari 
 Deshmukh  is  writer  of  Prabhakar 
 newspaper.  Kesari  (Marathi  newspaper, 
 1881,  Lokmanya  Bal  Gangadhar  Tilak). 
 Pudhari  (Marathi  daily,  1937). 
 (Newspaper/  Journal  –  Founder):- 
 Udbodhan,  1899,  Swami  Vivekananda. 
 Independent,  1919,  Motilal  Nehru.  Tahzib 
 -ul-Akhlaq, 1871, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. 
 Q.828.  The  Bahishkrit  Hitakarini  Sabha 
 was established at ___________. 
 Graduate Level 04/08/2022 ( Shift - 2) 
 (a) Hyderabad  (b) Bombay 
 (c) Delhi  (d) Nasik 
 Sol.828.(b)  Bombay.  Socio-Religious 
 Movements/Organisations  -  Founders:- 
 (Brahmo  Samaj,  1828  -  Raja  Ram  Mohan 
 Roy),  (Prarthana  Samaj,  1867  -  Dr 
 Atmaram  Panduran),  (Arya  Samaj,  1875  - 
 Swami  Dayanand  Saraswati), 
 (Ramakrishna  Mission,  1897  -  Swami 
 Vivekanand),  (Satyasodhak  Samaj,1873  - 
 Jyotiba  Phule),  (Ahmadiyya  Movement, 
 1889 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmed). 
 Q.829.  The  Vidhava  Vivaha  Uttejaka 
 Mandal  (Society  for  Encouragement  of 
 Widow  Marriage)  was  established  in 
 __________  in  the  second  half  of  the 
 nineteenth century. 
 Graduate Level 05/08/2022 (Shift - 3) 
 (a) Calcutta Presidency 
 (b) Bombay Presidency 
 (c) the Central Provinces 
 (d) the United Provinces 
 Sol.829.(b)  Bombay  Presidency.  It  was 
 established  by  Vishnushastri  Pandit  in 
 1866.  Hindu  Widow  Remarriage  Act 
 (1856)  was  passed  by  Lord  Canning  with 
 the  efforts  of  Ishwar  Chandra 
 Vidyasagar.  Sati  Practice  was  abolished 
 by  William  Bentinck  in  1829  with  the 
 efforts of Raja Ram Mohan Roy. 
 Q.830.  Who  among  the  following 
 founded the Vedanta College in 1825 ? 
 Higher Secondary 05/08/2022 (Shift - 2) 
 (a) Swami Dayanand Saraswati 
 (b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 
 (c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy 
 (d) Swami Vivekananda 
 Sol.830.(c)  Raja  Ram  Mohan  Roy  (Father 
 of  Modern  India)  established  the  Atmiya 
 Sabha  (1815)  and  the  Brahmo  Sabha 
 (1828).  The  Mughal  Emperor  of  Delhi, 
 Akbar  II,  bestowed  upon  him  the  title  of 
 'Raja’. 
 Q.831.  The  Begums  of  Bhopal  founded  a 
 primary  school  for  girls  in  the  early 
 twentieth century at _____. 
 SSC MTS 07/07/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Lahore  (b) Bombay 
 (c) Aligarh  (d) Pune 
 Sol.831.(c)  Aligarh.  The  Begums  of 
 Bhopal  played  a  vital  role,  from  the  early 
 20th  century,  in  promoting  education 
 among  Muslim  women.  They  founded  a 
 primary  school  for  girls  at  Aligarh. 
 Nawab  Begum  was  the  founding 
 Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University. 
 Q.832.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 one  of  the  founders  of  the  Deccan 
 Education  Society (1884)? 
 SSC MTS 11/07/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Dadoba Pandurang     (b) V R Shinde 
 (c) Tulsi Ram  (d) G G Agarkar 
 Sol.832.(d  )  GG  Agarkar.  Paramhansa 
 Sabha  was  founded  by  Dadoba 
 Pandurang.  V  R  Shinde  founded  the 
 Depressed  Class  Mission  in  Mumbai  in 
 1906.  Radha  Swami  Satsang  was 
 founded by Tulsi Ram in 1861. 
 Q.833.  The  Satnami  Movement  in  Central 
 India had a motive to: 
 SSC MTS 18/07/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) improve social status of leather 
 workers 
 (b) ban child marriage 
 (c) open school for girls 
 (d) improve widow status 
 Sol.833.(a)  Ghasidas  started  the 
 Satnami  movement  in  central  India  and 
 their  aim  was  to  establish  an  equal 
 society.  The  Satnami  sect  was  founded 
 by  a  saint  named  “Birbhan”  in  1657  in 
 Narnaul  in  Haryana.  In  1672,  they 
 rebelled  against  the  mighty  Mughal 
 Empire. Aurangzeb crushed the rebellion. 
 Q.834.  Sayyid  Ahmed  Khan  founded 
 Mohammedan  Anglo-Oriental  College  in 
 _________ in 1875 
 SSC MTS 26/07/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Aligarh  (b) Calcutta 
 (c) Delhi  (d) Lahore 
 Sol.834.(a)  Aligarh  and  evolved  into  the 
 Mohammedan  Anglo-Oriental  College. 
 He  has  often  been  criticized  as  the  father 
 of  Two  nation  theory  which  led  to  the 
 formation  of  two  separate  nations  i.e. 
 India  and  Pakistan.  His  writings  include- 
 “The  Causes  of  the  Indian  Revolt'' 
 (paper),  “Tahzebul  Akhlaq”  (magazine), 
 ‘Asbab-e-Baghawat-e-Hind’  (Booklet), 
 ‘Commentary  on  the  Holy  Bible’  (book), 
 etc. 
 Q.835.  Which  of  the  following 
 organisations  was  the  earliest  to  be 
 established,  as  compared  with  the  other 
 three during British rule? 
 SSC MTS 11/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Brahmo Samaj 
 (b) Satya Shodhak Samaj 
 (c) Prarthana Samaj 
 (d) Paramahansa Mandali 
 Sol.835.(a)  Brahmo  Samaj,  Brahmo  also 
 spelled  Brahma,  the  theistic  movement 
 within  Hinduism,  founded  in  Calcutta  in 
 1828 by Raja Ram Mohun Roy. 
 Q.836.  ______  fought  for  the  rights  of  the 
 Dalit community. 
 SSC MTS 14/10/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Subhash Chandra Bose 
 (b) Bipin Chandra Pal 
 (c) Bhimrao Ambedkar 
 (d) Krishnaji Gopal Karve 
 Sol.836.(c)  Bhimrao  Ambedkar  . 
 Ambedkar  fought  for  the  rights  of 
 workers  and  peasants.  In  the  late  1920s 
 and  early  1930s,  he  had  formed  his 
 Independent Labour Party. 
 Q.837.  Who  among  the  following  wrote 
 the  Brahmo  Covenant,  which  was  a 
 statement  of  the  creed  of  the  Brahmo 
 Samaj  and  made  a  list  of  the  duties  and 
 obligations of its members? 
 SSC MTS 02/11/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Keshab Chandra Sen 
 (b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 
 (c) Debendranath Tagore 
 (d) Rammohan Roy 
 Sol.837.(c)  Debendranath  Tagore  .  He 
 was  the  founder  in  1848  of  the  Brahmo 
 religion,  which  today  is  synonymous  with 
 Brahmoism.  In  1863  he  founded 
 Shantiniketan (“Abode of Peace”). 
 Q.838.  Which  of  the  following 
 statements  about  Swami  Dayanand 
 Saraswati is INCORRECT? 
 SSC CGL 13/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) His birthplace was Gujarat. 
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 Sol.826.(b)  Atmiya  Sabha.  Brahmo 
 Samaj  {Raja  Ram  Mohan  Roy  founded 
 Brahmo  Sabha  in  1828,  Aim  -  worship  of 
 the  eternal  God.  It  split  into  two  in  1866 
 (Brahmo  Samaj  of  India  led  by  Keshub 
 Chandra  Sen  and  Adi  Brahmo  Samaj  led 
 by  Debendranath  Tagore),  Prominent 
 Leaders:  Debendranath  Tagore,  Keshub 
 Chandra  Sen,  Pt.  Sivnath  Shastri,  and 
 Rabindranath Tagore}. 
 Q.827.  Vishnushastri  Chiplunkar  started 
 a  monthly  Marathi  magazine  __________, 
 in 1874 for the cause of social reform. 
 Graduate Level 04/08/2022 (Shift - 2) 
 (a) Prabhakar  (b) Kesari 
 (c) Nibandhmala     (d) Pudhari 
 Sol.827.(c)  Nibandhmala.  Gopal  Hari 
 Deshmukh  is  writer  of  Prabhakar 
 newspaper.  Kesari  (Marathi  newspaper, 
 1881,  Lokmanya  Bal  Gangadhar  Tilak). 
 Pudhari  (Marathi  daily,  1937). 
 (Newspaper/  Journal  –  Founder):- 
 Udbodhan,  1899,  Swami  Vivekananda. 
 Independent,  1919,  Motilal  Nehru.  Tahzib 
 -ul-Akhlaq, 1871, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. 
 Q.828.  The  Bahishkrit  Hitakarini  Sabha 
 was established at ___________. 
 Graduate Level 04/08/2022 ( Shift - 2) 
 (a) Hyderabad  (b) Bombay 
 (c) Delhi  (d) Nasik 
 Sol.828.(b)  Bombay.  Socio-Religious 
 Movements/Organisations  -  Founders:- 
 (Brahmo  Samaj,  1828  -  Raja  Ram  Mohan 
 Roy),  (Prarthana  Samaj,  1867  -  Dr 
 Atmaram  Panduran),  (Arya  Samaj,  1875  - 
 Swami  Dayanand  Saraswati), 
 (Ramakrishna  Mission,  1897  -  Swami 
 Vivekanand),  (Satyasodhak  Samaj,1873  - 
 Jyotiba  Phule),  (Ahmadiyya  Movement, 
 1889 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmed). 
 Q.829.  The  Vidhava  Vivaha  Uttejaka 
 Mandal  (Society  for  Encouragement  of 
 Widow  Marriage)  was  established  in 
 __________  in  the  second  half  of  the 
 nineteenth century. 
 Graduate Level 05/08/2022 (Shift - 3) 
 (a) Calcutta Presidency 
 (b) Bombay Presidency 
 (c) the Central Provinces 
 (d) the United Provinces 
 Sol.829.(b)  Bombay  Presidency.  It  was 
 established  by  Vishnushastri  Pandit  in 
 1866.  Hindu  Widow  Remarriage  Act 
 (1856)  was  passed  by  Lord  Canning  with 
 the  efforts  of  Ishwar  Chandra 
 Vidyasagar.  Sati  Practice  was  abolished 
 by  William  Bentinck  in  1829  with  the 
 efforts of Raja Ram Mohan Roy. 
 Q.830.  Who  among  the  following 
 founded the Vedanta College in 1825 ? 
 Higher Secondary 05/08/2022 (Shift - 2) 
 (a) Swami Dayanand Saraswati 
 (b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 
 (c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy 
 (d) Swami Vivekananda 
 Sol.830.(c)  Raja  Ram  Mohan  Roy  (Father 
 of  Modern  India)  established  the  Atmiya 
 Sabha  (1815)  and  the  Brahmo  Sabha 
 (1828).  The  Mughal  Emperor  of  Delhi, 
 Akbar  II,  bestowed  upon  him  the  title  of 
 'Raja’. 
 Q.831.  The  Begums  of  Bhopal  founded  a 
 primary  school  for  girls  in  the  early 
 twentieth century at _____. 
 SSC MTS 07/07/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Lahore  (b) Bombay 
 (c) Aligarh  (d) Pune 
 Sol.831.(c)  Aligarh.  The  Begums  of 
 Bhopal  played  a  vital  role,  from  the  early 
 20th  century,  in  promoting  education 
 among  Muslim  women.  They  founded  a 
 primary  school  for  girls  at  Aligarh. 
 Nawab  Begum  was  the  founding 
 Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University. 
 Q.832.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 one  of  the  founders  of  the  Deccan 
 Education  Society (1884)? 
 SSC MTS 11/07/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Dadoba Pandurang     (b) V R Shinde 
 (c) Tulsi Ram  (d) G G Agarkar 
 Sol.832.(d  )  GG  Agarkar.  Paramhansa 
 Sabha  was  founded  by  Dadoba 
 Pandurang.  V  R  Shinde  founded  the 
 Depressed  Class  Mission  in  Mumbai  in 
 1906.  Radha  Swami  Satsang  was 
 founded by Tulsi Ram in 1861. 
 Q.833.  The  Satnami  Movement  in  Central 
 India had a motive to: 
 SSC MTS 18/07/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) improve social status of leather 
 workers 
 (b) ban child marriage 
 (c) open school for girls 
 (d) improve widow status 
 Sol.833.(a)  Ghasidas  started  the 
 Satnami  movement  in  central  India  and 
 their  aim  was  to  establish  an  equal 
 society.  The  Satnami  sect  was  founded 
 by  a  saint  named  “Birbhan”  in  1657  in 
 Narnaul  in  Haryana.  In  1672,  they 
 rebelled  against  the  mighty  Mughal 
 Empire. Aurangzeb crushed the rebellion. 
 Q.834.  Sayyid  Ahmed  Khan  founded 
 Mohammedan  Anglo-Oriental  College  in 
 _________ in 1875 
 SSC MTS 26/07/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Aligarh  (b) Calcutta 
 (c) Delhi  (d) Lahore 
 Sol.834.(a)  Aligarh  and  evolved  into  the 
 Mohammedan  Anglo-Oriental  College. 
 He  has  often  been  criticized  as  the  father 
 of  Two  nation  theory  which  led  to  the 
 formation  of  two  separate  nations  i.e. 
 India  and  Pakistan.  His  writings  include- 
 “The  Causes  of  the  Indian  Revolt'' 
 (paper),  “Tahzebul  Akhlaq”  (magazine), 
 ‘Asbab-e-Baghawat-e-Hind’  (Booklet), 
 ‘Commentary  on  the  Holy  Bible’  (book), 
 etc. 
 Q.835.  Which  of  the  following 
 organisations  was  the  earliest  to  be 
 established,  as  compared  with  the  other 
 three during British rule? 
 SSC MTS 11/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Brahmo Samaj 
 (b) Satya Shodhak Samaj 
 (c) Prarthana Samaj 
 (d) Paramahansa Mandali 
 Sol.835.(a)  Brahmo  Samaj,  Brahmo  also 
 spelled  Brahma,  the  theistic  movement 
 within  Hinduism,  founded  in  Calcutta  in 
 1828 by Raja Ram Mohun Roy. 
 Q.836.  ______  fought  for  the  rights  of  the 
 Dalit community. 
 SSC MTS 14/10/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Subhash Chandra Bose 
 (b) Bipin Chandra Pal 
 (c) Bhimrao Ambedkar 
 (d) Krishnaji Gopal Karve 
 Sol.836.(c)  Bhimrao  Ambedkar  . 
 Ambedkar  fought  for  the  rights  of 
 workers  and  peasants.  In  the  late  1920s 
 and  early  1930s,  he  had  formed  his 
 Independent Labour Party. 
 Q.837.  Who  among  the  following  wrote 
 the  Brahmo  Covenant,  which  was  a 
 statement  of  the  creed  of  the  Brahmo 
 Samaj  and  made  a  list  of  the  duties  and 
 obligations of its members? 
 SSC MTS 02/11/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Keshab Chandra Sen 
 (b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 
 (c) Debendranath Tagore 
 (d) Rammohan Roy 
 Sol.837.(c)  Debendranath  Tagore  .  He 
 was  the  founder  in  1848  of  the  Brahmo 
 religion,  which  today  is  synonymous  with 
 Brahmoism.  In  1863  he  founded 
 Shantiniketan (“Abode of Peace”). 
 Q.838.  Which  of  the  following 
 statements  about  Swami  Dayanand 
 Saraswati is INCORRECT? 
 SSC CGL 13/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) His birthplace was Gujarat. 
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 (b) He authored the book 'Satyarth 
 Prakash'. 
 (c) He was the founder of Arya Samaj. 
 (d) He was the founder of Brahmo 
 Samaj. 
 Sol.838.(d)  The  Brahmo  Samaj  was 
 founded  by  Raja  Rammohan  Roy  along 
 with  Dwarkanath  Tagore  and  others  on 
 August 20, 1828. 
 Q.839.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 NOT a Nayanar saint? 
 SSC CHSL 13/04/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Sundarar  (b) Appar 
 (c) Sambandar  (d) Andal 
 Sol.839.(d)  Andal  .  The  Nayanars  were  a 
 group  of  63  poet-saints  living  in  Tamil 
 Nadu  during  the  6th  to  8th  centuries  CE 
 who  were  devoted  to  the  Hindu  god 
 Shiva.  Along  with  the  Alwars,  their 
 contemporaries  who  were  devoted  to 
 Vishnu,  they  in?uenced  the  Bhakti 
 movement in early medieval South India. 
 Q.840.  Which  of  the  following  is  NOT  a 
 correct  match  of  Dargah  and  its 
 respective location? 
 SSC CHSL 06/08/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya Dargah - 
 Agra 
 (b) Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki 
 Dargah - Delhi 
 (c) Haji Ali Dargah - Mumbai 
 (d) Shaikh Muinuddin Sijzi (chishti) 
 Dargah - Ajmer 
 Sol.840.(a)  Shaikh  Nizamuddin  Auliya 
 Dargah  is  the  Dargah  of  the  Su?  saint 
 Khwaja  Nizamuddin  Auliya.  It  is  located 
 in the Nizamuddin West area of Delhi 
 Q.841.  Veteran  freedom  ?ghter,  social 
 reformer  and  feminist  Savithribai  Phule 
 hailed  from  which  of  the  following  states 
 of India? 
 SSC CGL 03/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Maharashtra  (b) Odisha 
 (c) Rajasthan  (d) Gujarat 
 Sol.841.(a)  Maharashtra  .  Savitibai  Phule 
 -  She  was  the  ?rst  female  teacher  of 
 India  and  opened  a  school  for  women  in 
 1848,  Married  to  Jyotirao  Phule 
 (Founded  Satya  Shodhak  Samaj  in  1873 
 in Pune). 
 Q.842.  Who  among  the  following  is 
 known  as  the  'father  of  Muslim 
 renaissance' in Bengal? 
 SSC CGL 04/03/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan 
 (b) Ameer Ali 
 (c) Nawab Abdul Latif Khan 
 (d) Nawab Salimullah Khan 
 Sol.842.(c)  Nawab  Abdul  Latif  Khan  .  His 
 title,  Nawab,  was  awarded  by  the  British 
 in  1880.  He  was  one  of  the  ?rst  Muslim 
 in  nineteenth  century  India  to  embrace 
 the idea of modernization. 
 Q.843.  Who  among  the  following 
 scholars  is  associated  with  the 
 Tibet-home theory of the Aryans? 
 SSC CGL 07/03/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Dayanand Saraswati 
 (b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak 
 (c) MacDonell 
 (d) Max Muller 
 Sol.843.(a)  Swami  Dayanand  Saraswati 
 in  his  book  Satyarth  Prakash  propounded 
 that  the  original  abode  of  the  Aryans  was 
 Tibet.  The  reasoning  behind  this  was  that 
 due  to  the  extreme  cold  in  Tibet,  sun  and 
 ?re  were  worshiped  and  the  ?ora  and 
 fauna  described  in  the  Rigveda  were 
 found in Tibet. 
 Indian National Congress and 
 Its Sessions 
 Q.844.  Indian  National  Congress 
 celebrated  the  ?rst  Independence  Day  in 
 Colonial India on _____________ . 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) 2 October 1929 
 (b) 29 December 1929 
 (c) 15 August 1930 
 (d) 26 January 1930 
 Sol.844.(d)  26  January  1930.  The  Indian 
 National  Congress  passed  'Complete 
 Swaraj'  in  its  Lahore  session  on  19 
 December  1929.  The  president  of  this 
 session  was  Jawaharlal  Nehru.  National 
 Symbols  of  India  and  adopted  date: 
 National  Flag  of  India  -  Tiranga  (22  July 
 1947),  Indian  National  Calendar  -  Saka 
 Calendar  (22  March  1957),  National  Song 
 of  India  -  Vande  Matram  (24  January 
 1950),  National  Anthem  of  India  -  Jana 
 Gana Mana (24 January 1950). 
 Q.845.  Who  led  the  Indian  National 
 Congress at its ?rst annual session? 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Surendra Nath Banerjee 
 (b) Dadabhai Naoroji 
 (c) WC Banerjee 
 (d) AO Hume 
 Sol.845.(c)  WC  Banerjee.  Important 
 Congress  sessions:  First  Session  -  held 
 at  Bombay  in  1885.  Second  Session  - 
 held  at  Calcutta  in  1886,  President  - 
 Dadabhai  Naoroji.  Third  Session  -  held  at 
 Madras  in  1887,  President  -  Syed 
 Badruddin  Tyabji  (?rst  muslim 
 President).  Fourth  Session  -  held  at 
 Allahabad  in  1888,  President  -  George 
 Yule  (?rst  English  President).  1896 
 session  (Calcutta)  President  - 
 Rahimtullah  Sayani,  National  Song 
 ‘Vande  Mataram’  sung  for  the  ?rst  time 
 by Rabindranath Tagore. 
 Q.846.  Who  was  the  ?rst  Woman 
 President of Indian National Congress? 
 SSC MTS 08/09/2023 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) Sarojini Naidu  (b) Asaf Ali 
 (c) Annie Besant       (d) Usha Mehta 
 Sol.846.(c)  Annie  Besant  :  First  woman 
 who  presided  over  the  calcutta  session 
 (1917)  of  Indian  National  Congress. 
 Sarojini  Naidu  -  ?rst  Indian  women 
 president  of  Indian  national  congress 
 (1925,  Kanpur  session)  and  the  ?rst 
 woman  Governor  of  the  United  Provinces 
 in 1947. 
 Q.847.  Which  ?ag  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress was adopted in 1931? 
 SSC MTS 12/09/2023 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) A two colour ?ag with charkha made 
 by cloth 
 (b) A tricolour ?ag made by Khadi with a 
 Charkha symbol 
 (c) One colour ?ag with charkha symbol 
 (d) A blue colour ?ag made by cloth 
 Sol.847.(b)  Ad  -  Hoc  Flag  Committee  : 
 Formed  in  1947  under  Rajendra  Prasad. 
 Pingali  Venkayya  -  Designer  of  National 
 Flag  of  India  (1921).  National  ?ag  was 
 adopted  on  July  22,  1947.  Ratio  of  the 
 length  to  the  breadth  of  the  Indian  Flag  - 
 3:2.  National  ?ag  of  India  was  ?rst 
 hoisted  on  7th  August,  1906  in  Kolkata  at 
 the  Parsee  Bagan  Square  (Green  Park). 
 First  Indian  ?ag  was  hoisted  on  a  foreign 
 land  by  Madame  Bhikaji  Cama  (1907  - 
 Germany). 
 Q.848.  In  the  1939  Tripuri  Congress 
 Presidential  Election,  Pattabhi 
 Sitaramayya was defeated by: 
 SSC MTS 13/09/2023 (1st Shift) 
 (a) Mahatma Gandhi 
 (b) Rajendra Prasad 
 (c) Subhas Chandra Bose 
 (d) Jawaharlal Nehru 
 Sol.848.(c)  Subhas  Chandra  Bose  was 
 elected  President  of  the  Haripura 
 Congress  Session  in  1938.  He  resigned 
 as  congress  president  in  April  1939.  Dr. 
 Rajendra  Prasad  replaced  Subhas 
 Chandra  Bose  as  the  new  congress 
 president. 
 Q.849.  In  which  session  of  All  India 
 Congress  Committee  was  the  Quit  India 
 Resolution accepted? 
 SSC CHSL 03/08/2023 (4th shift) 
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 Sol.826.(b)  Atmiya  Sabha.  Brahmo 
 Samaj  {Raja  Ram  Mohan  Roy  founded 
 Brahmo  Sabha  in  1828,  Aim  -  worship  of 
 the  eternal  God.  It  split  into  two  in  1866 
 (Brahmo  Samaj  of  India  led  by  Keshub 
 Chandra  Sen  and  Adi  Brahmo  Samaj  led 
 by  Debendranath  Tagore),  Prominent 
 Leaders:  Debendranath  Tagore,  Keshub 
 Chandra  Sen,  Pt.  Sivnath  Shastri,  and 
 Rabindranath Tagore}. 
 Q.827.  Vishnushastri  Chiplunkar  started 
 a  monthly  Marathi  magazine  __________, 
 in 1874 for the cause of social reform. 
 Graduate Level 04/08/2022 (Shift - 2) 
 (a) Prabhakar  (b) Kesari 
 (c) Nibandhmala     (d) Pudhari 
 Sol.827.(c)  Nibandhmala.  Gopal  Hari 
 Deshmukh  is  writer  of  Prabhakar 
 newspaper.  Kesari  (Marathi  newspaper, 
 1881,  Lokmanya  Bal  Gangadhar  Tilak). 
 Pudhari  (Marathi  daily,  1937). 
 (Newspaper/  Journal  –  Founder):- 
 Udbodhan,  1899,  Swami  Vivekananda. 
 Independent,  1919,  Motilal  Nehru.  Tahzib 
 -ul-Akhlaq, 1871, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. 
 Q.828.  The  Bahishkrit  Hitakarini  Sabha 
 was established at ___________. 
 Graduate Level 04/08/2022 ( Shift - 2) 
 (a) Hyderabad  (b) Bombay 
 (c) Delhi  (d) Nasik 
 Sol.828.(b)  Bombay.  Socio-Religious 
 Movements/Organisations  -  Founders:- 
 (Brahmo  Samaj,  1828  -  Raja  Ram  Mohan 
 Roy),  (Prarthana  Samaj,  1867  -  Dr 
 Atmaram  Panduran),  (Arya  Samaj,  1875  - 
 Swami  Dayanand  Saraswati), 
 (Ramakrishna  Mission,  1897  -  Swami 
 Vivekanand),  (Satyasodhak  Samaj,1873  - 
 Jyotiba  Phule),  (Ahmadiyya  Movement, 
 1889 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmed). 
 Q.829.  The  Vidhava  Vivaha  Uttejaka 
 Mandal  (Society  for  Encouragement  of 
 Widow  Marriage)  was  established  in 
 __________  in  the  second  half  of  the 
 nineteenth century. 
 Graduate Level 05/08/2022 (Shift - 3) 
 (a) Calcutta Presidency 
 (b) Bombay Presidency 
 (c) the Central Provinces 
 (d) the United Provinces 
 Sol.829.(b)  Bombay  Presidency.  It  was 
 established  by  Vishnushastri  Pandit  in 
 1866.  Hindu  Widow  Remarriage  Act 
 (1856)  was  passed  by  Lord  Canning  with 
 the  efforts  of  Ishwar  Chandra 
 Vidyasagar.  Sati  Practice  was  abolished 
 by  William  Bentinck  in  1829  with  the 
 efforts of Raja Ram Mohan Roy. 
 Q.830.  Who  among  the  following 
 founded the Vedanta College in 1825 ? 
 Higher Secondary 05/08/2022 (Shift - 2) 
 (a) Swami Dayanand Saraswati 
 (b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 
 (c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy 
 (d) Swami Vivekananda 
 Sol.830.(c)  Raja  Ram  Mohan  Roy  (Father 
 of  Modern  India)  established  the  Atmiya 
 Sabha  (1815)  and  the  Brahmo  Sabha 
 (1828).  The  Mughal  Emperor  of  Delhi, 
 Akbar  II,  bestowed  upon  him  the  title  of 
 'Raja’. 
 Q.831.  The  Begums  of  Bhopal  founded  a 
 primary  school  for  girls  in  the  early 
 twentieth century at _____. 
 SSC MTS 07/07/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Lahore  (b) Bombay 
 (c) Aligarh  (d) Pune 
 Sol.831.(c)  Aligarh.  The  Begums  of 
 Bhopal  played  a  vital  role,  from  the  early 
 20th  century,  in  promoting  education 
 among  Muslim  women.  They  founded  a 
 primary  school  for  girls  at  Aligarh. 
 Nawab  Begum  was  the  founding 
 Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University. 
 Q.832.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 one  of  the  founders  of  the  Deccan 
 Education  Society (1884)? 
 SSC MTS 11/07/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Dadoba Pandurang     (b) V R Shinde 
 (c) Tulsi Ram  (d) G G Agarkar 
 Sol.832.(d  )  GG  Agarkar.  Paramhansa 
 Sabha  was  founded  by  Dadoba 
 Pandurang.  V  R  Shinde  founded  the 
 Depressed  Class  Mission  in  Mumbai  in 
 1906.  Radha  Swami  Satsang  was 
 founded by Tulsi Ram in 1861. 
 Q.833.  The  Satnami  Movement  in  Central 
 India had a motive to: 
 SSC MTS 18/07/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) improve social status of leather 
 workers 
 (b) ban child marriage 
 (c) open school for girls 
 (d) improve widow status 
 Sol.833.(a)  Ghasidas  started  the 
 Satnami  movement  in  central  India  and 
 their  aim  was  to  establish  an  equal 
 society.  The  Satnami  sect  was  founded 
 by  a  saint  named  “Birbhan”  in  1657  in 
 Narnaul  in  Haryana.  In  1672,  they 
 rebelled  against  the  mighty  Mughal 
 Empire. Aurangzeb crushed the rebellion. 
 Q.834.  Sayyid  Ahmed  Khan  founded 
 Mohammedan  Anglo-Oriental  College  in 
 _________ in 1875 
 SSC MTS 26/07/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Aligarh  (b) Calcutta 
 (c) Delhi  (d) Lahore 
 Sol.834.(a)  Aligarh  and  evolved  into  the 
 Mohammedan  Anglo-Oriental  College. 
 He  has  often  been  criticized  as  the  father 
 of  Two  nation  theory  which  led  to  the 
 formation  of  two  separate  nations  i.e. 
 India  and  Pakistan.  His  writings  include- 
 “The  Causes  of  the  Indian  Revolt'' 
 (paper),  “Tahzebul  Akhlaq”  (magazine), 
 ‘Asbab-e-Baghawat-e-Hind’  (Booklet), 
 ‘Commentary  on  the  Holy  Bible’  (book), 
 etc. 
 Q.835.  Which  of  the  following 
 organisations  was  the  earliest  to  be 
 established,  as  compared  with  the  other 
 three during British rule? 
 SSC MTS 11/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Brahmo Samaj 
 (b) Satya Shodhak Samaj 
 (c) Prarthana Samaj 
 (d) Paramahansa Mandali 
 Sol.835.(a)  Brahmo  Samaj,  Brahmo  also 
 spelled  Brahma,  the  theistic  movement 
 within  Hinduism,  founded  in  Calcutta  in 
 1828 by Raja Ram Mohun Roy. 
 Q.836.  ______  fought  for  the  rights  of  the 
 Dalit community. 
 SSC MTS 14/10/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Subhash Chandra Bose 
 (b) Bipin Chandra Pal 
 (c) Bhimrao Ambedkar 
 (d) Krishnaji Gopal Karve 
 Sol.836.(c)  Bhimrao  Ambedkar  . 
 Ambedkar  fought  for  the  rights  of 
 workers  and  peasants.  In  the  late  1920s 
 and  early  1930s,  he  had  formed  his 
 Independent Labour Party. 
 Q.837.  Who  among  the  following  wrote 
 the  Brahmo  Covenant,  which  was  a 
 statement  of  the  creed  of  the  Brahmo 
 Samaj  and  made  a  list  of  the  duties  and 
 obligations of its members? 
 SSC MTS 02/11/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Keshab Chandra Sen 
 (b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 
 (c) Debendranath Tagore 
 (d) Rammohan Roy 
 Sol.837.(c)  Debendranath  Tagore  .  He 
 was  the  founder  in  1848  of  the  Brahmo 
 religion,  which  today  is  synonymous  with 
 Brahmoism.  In  1863  he  founded 
 Shantiniketan (“Abode of Peace”). 
 Q.838.  Which  of  the  following 
 statements  about  Swami  Dayanand 
 Saraswati is INCORRECT? 
 SSC CGL 13/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) His birthplace was Gujarat. 
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 (b) He authored the book 'Satyarth 
 Prakash'. 
 (c) He was the founder of Arya Samaj. 
 (d) He was the founder of Brahmo 
 Samaj. 
 Sol.838.(d)  The  Brahmo  Samaj  was 
 founded  by  Raja  Rammohan  Roy  along 
 with  Dwarkanath  Tagore  and  others  on 
 August 20, 1828. 
 Q.839.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 NOT a Nayanar saint? 
 SSC CHSL 13/04/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Sundarar  (b) Appar 
 (c) Sambandar  (d) Andal 
 Sol.839.(d)  Andal  .  The  Nayanars  were  a 
 group  of  63  poet-saints  living  in  Tamil 
 Nadu  during  the  6th  to  8th  centuries  CE 
 who  were  devoted  to  the  Hindu  god 
 Shiva.  Along  with  the  Alwars,  their 
 contemporaries  who  were  devoted  to 
 Vishnu,  they  in?uenced  the  Bhakti 
 movement in early medieval South India. 
 Q.840.  Which  of  the  following  is  NOT  a 
 correct  match  of  Dargah  and  its 
 respective location? 
 SSC CHSL 06/08/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya Dargah - 
 Agra 
 (b) Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki 
 Dargah - Delhi 
 (c) Haji Ali Dargah - Mumbai 
 (d) Shaikh Muinuddin Sijzi (chishti) 
 Dargah - Ajmer 
 Sol.840.(a)  Shaikh  Nizamuddin  Auliya 
 Dargah  is  the  Dargah  of  the  Su?  saint 
 Khwaja  Nizamuddin  Auliya.  It  is  located 
 in the Nizamuddin West area of Delhi 
 Q.841.  Veteran  freedom  ?ghter,  social 
 reformer  and  feminist  Savithribai  Phule 
 hailed  from  which  of  the  following  states 
 of India? 
 SSC CGL 03/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Maharashtra  (b) Odisha 
 (c) Rajasthan  (d) Gujarat 
 Sol.841.(a)  Maharashtra  .  Savitibai  Phule 
 -  She  was  the  ?rst  female  teacher  of 
 India  and  opened  a  school  for  women  in 
 1848,  Married  to  Jyotirao  Phule 
 (Founded  Satya  Shodhak  Samaj  in  1873 
 in Pune). 
 Q.842.  Who  among  the  following  is 
 known  as  the  'father  of  Muslim 
 renaissance' in Bengal? 
 SSC CGL 04/03/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan 
 (b) Ameer Ali 
 (c) Nawab Abdul Latif Khan 
 (d) Nawab Salimullah Khan 
 Sol.842.(c)  Nawab  Abdul  Latif  Khan  .  His 
 title,  Nawab,  was  awarded  by  the  British 
 in  1880.  He  was  one  of  the  ?rst  Muslim 
 in  nineteenth  century  India  to  embrace 
 the idea of modernization. 
 Q.843.  Who  among  the  following 
 scholars  is  associated  with  the 
 Tibet-home theory of the Aryans? 
 SSC CGL 07/03/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Dayanand Saraswati 
 (b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak 
 (c) MacDonell 
 (d) Max Muller 
 Sol.843.(a)  Swami  Dayanand  Saraswati 
 in  his  book  Satyarth  Prakash  propounded 
 that  the  original  abode  of  the  Aryans  was 
 Tibet.  The  reasoning  behind  this  was  that 
 due  to  the  extreme  cold  in  Tibet,  sun  and 
 ?re  were  worshiped  and  the  ?ora  and 
 fauna  described  in  the  Rigveda  were 
 found in Tibet. 
 Indian National Congress and 
 Its Sessions 
 Q.844.  Indian  National  Congress 
 celebrated  the  ?rst  Independence  Day  in 
 Colonial India on _____________ . 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) 2 October 1929 
 (b) 29 December 1929 
 (c) 15 August 1930 
 (d) 26 January 1930 
 Sol.844.(d)  26  January  1930.  The  Indian 
 National  Congress  passed  'Complete 
 Swaraj'  in  its  Lahore  session  on  19 
 December  1929.  The  president  of  this 
 session  was  Jawaharlal  Nehru.  National 
 Symbols  of  India  and  adopted  date: 
 National  Flag  of  India  -  Tiranga  (22  July 
 1947),  Indian  National  Calendar  -  Saka 
 Calendar  (22  March  1957),  National  Song 
 of  India  -  Vande  Matram  (24  January 
 1950),  National  Anthem  of  India  -  Jana 
 Gana Mana (24 January 1950). 
 Q.845.  Who  led  the  Indian  National 
 Congress at its ?rst annual session? 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Surendra Nath Banerjee 
 (b) Dadabhai Naoroji 
 (c) WC Banerjee 
 (d) AO Hume 
 Sol.845.(c)  WC  Banerjee.  Important 
 Congress  sessions:  First  Session  -  held 
 at  Bombay  in  1885.  Second  Session  - 
 held  at  Calcutta  in  1886,  President  - 
 Dadabhai  Naoroji.  Third  Session  -  held  at 
 Madras  in  1887,  President  -  Syed 
 Badruddin  Tyabji  (?rst  muslim 
 President).  Fourth  Session  -  held  at 
 Allahabad  in  1888,  President  -  George 
 Yule  (?rst  English  President).  1896 
 session  (Calcutta)  President  - 
 Rahimtullah  Sayani,  National  Song 
 ‘Vande  Mataram’  sung  for  the  ?rst  time 
 by Rabindranath Tagore. 
 Q.846.  Who  was  the  ?rst  Woman 
 President of Indian National Congress? 
 SSC MTS 08/09/2023 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) Sarojini Naidu  (b) Asaf Ali 
 (c) Annie Besant       (d) Usha Mehta 
 Sol.846.(c)  Annie  Besant  :  First  woman 
 who  presided  over  the  calcutta  session 
 (1917)  of  Indian  National  Congress. 
 Sarojini  Naidu  -  ?rst  Indian  women 
 president  of  Indian  national  congress 
 (1925,  Kanpur  session)  and  the  ?rst 
 woman  Governor  of  the  United  Provinces 
 in 1947. 
 Q.847.  Which  ?ag  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress was adopted in 1931? 
 SSC MTS 12/09/2023 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) A two colour ?ag with charkha made 
 by cloth 
 (b) A tricolour ?ag made by Khadi with a 
 Charkha symbol 
 (c) One colour ?ag with charkha symbol 
 (d) A blue colour ?ag made by cloth 
 Sol.847.(b)  Ad  -  Hoc  Flag  Committee  : 
 Formed  in  1947  under  Rajendra  Prasad. 
 Pingali  Venkayya  -  Designer  of  National 
 Flag  of  India  (1921).  National  ?ag  was 
 adopted  on  July  22,  1947.  Ratio  of  the 
 length  to  the  breadth  of  the  Indian  Flag  - 
 3:2.  National  ?ag  of  India  was  ?rst 
 hoisted  on  7th  August,  1906  in  Kolkata  at 
 the  Parsee  Bagan  Square  (Green  Park). 
 First  Indian  ?ag  was  hoisted  on  a  foreign 
 land  by  Madame  Bhikaji  Cama  (1907  - 
 Germany). 
 Q.848.  In  the  1939  Tripuri  Congress 
 Presidential  Election,  Pattabhi 
 Sitaramayya was defeated by: 
 SSC MTS 13/09/2023 (1st Shift) 
 (a) Mahatma Gandhi 
 (b) Rajendra Prasad 
 (c) Subhas Chandra Bose 
 (d) Jawaharlal Nehru 
 Sol.848.(c)  Subhas  Chandra  Bose  was 
 elected  President  of  the  Haripura 
 Congress  Session  in  1938.  He  resigned 
 as  congress  president  in  April  1939.  Dr. 
 Rajendra  Prasad  replaced  Subhas 
 Chandra  Bose  as  the  new  congress 
 president. 
 Q.849.  In  which  session  of  All  India 
 Congress  Committee  was  the  Quit  India 
 Resolution accepted? 
 SSC CHSL 03/08/2023 (4th shift) 
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 (a) Calcutta  (b) Delhi 
 (c) Madras  (d) Bombay 
 Sol.849.(d)  Bombay.  Quit  India 
 Movement  -  It  was  launched  at  the 
 Bombay  session  of  the  All  India 
 Congress  Committee  by  Mahatma 
 Gandhi  on  8  August  1942,  during  World 
 War  II,  demanding  an  end  to  British  rule 
 in  India.  Yusuf  Meher  Ali  coined  the 
 slogan ‘Quit India’. 
 Q.850.  In  which  session  of  the  Indian 
 National  Congress  was  the  resolution 
 declaring Poorna Swaraj passed? 
 SSC CHSL 07/08/2023 (1st shift) 
 (a) Calcutta  (b) Bombay 
 (c) Madras  (d) Lahore 
 Sol.850.(d)  Lahore  (1929).  Pandit 
 Jawahar  Lal  Nehru  presided  over  the 
 Lahore  session  of  congress  and  hoisted 
 the  tricolor  ?ag  of  India.  Congress 
 Session  and  President:  Lucknow  session 
 -  Ambica  Charan  Mazumdar  (1916), 
 Tripuri  -  Subhash  Chandra  Bose  (1939), 
 Gaya  -  Chittaranjan  Das  (1922),  Kanpur  - 
 Sarojini  Naidu  (1925),  Karachi  - 
 Vallabhbhai  Patel  (1931),  Ramgarh  - 
 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1940). 
 Q.851.  The  second  annual  session  of 
 Indian  National  Congress  was  held  at 
 which of the following places ? 
 SSC CHSL 11/08/2023 (2nd shift) 
 (a) Bombay  (b) Delhi 
 (c) Calcutta  (d) Madras 
 Sol.851.(c)  Calcutta  (1886,  Dada  Bhai 
 Naoroji)  .  Indian  National  Congress: 
 Founded  -  28  December  1885  in  Bombay 
 by  Alan  Octavian  Hume.  First  President  - 
 Womesh  Chandra  Banerjee.  Third 
 Session  (1887,  Madras)  -  Badruddin 
 Tyabji. 
 Q.852.  Who  was  the  president  of  the 
 second  session  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress? 
 SSC CGL 20/07/2023 (1st shift) 
 (a) Dadabhai Naoroji 
 (b) Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee 
 (c) Pherozeshah Mehta 
 (d) George Yule 
 Sol.852.(a)  Dadabhai  Naroji.  Indian 
 National  Congress:  The  Second  session  - 
 Calcutta  (1886),  The  ?rst  session  - 
 Bombay  (1885).  The  ?rst  president  - 
 Womesh  Chandra  Bonnerjee.  First 
 General Secretary - A.O Hume. 
 Q.853.  Self-Government  or  'Swaraj'  as 
 the  ultimate  goal  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress-this  declaration  was  made  by 
 Dadabhai Naoroji in which of the 
 following sessions of the INC ? 
 SSC CGL 20/07/2023 (4th shift) 
 (a) Bombay  (b) Calcutta 
 (c) Madras  (d) Bankipur 
 Sol.853.(b)  Calcutta.  Dadabhai  Naoroji 
 (Grand  Old  Man  of  India)  founded  the 
 Rahnumai  Mazdayasnan  Sabha  in  1851 
 to  revive  the  Zoroastrian  religion  and 
 formed  the  London  India  Society  in  1865. 
 He  Became  a  member  of  the  Legislative 
 Council  of  Mumbai  during  1885-88  and 
 President  of  the  Congress  Party  in  1886 
 (Calcutta),  1893  (Lahore)  and  1906 
 (Calcutta).  He  gave  the  theory  of  ‘drain  of 
 wealth’  in  his  book  “Poverty  and 
 Un-British Rule in India”. 
 Q.854.  When  did  the  All  India  Congress 
 formalize  the  demand  for  'Purna  Swaraj' 
 or full independence for India? 
 SSC CGL 21/07/2023 (3rd shift) 
 (a) At its Karachi Session in 1931 
 (b) At its Lahore Session in 1929 
 (c) At its Guwahati Session in 1926 
 (d) At its Madras Session in 1927 
 Sol.854.(b)  Lahore  Session  (1929)  - 
 Jawaharlal  Nehru  was  elected  as 
 President  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress  (1929).  The  Karachi  Session 
 (1931)  -  Chaired  by  Sardar  Vallabhbhai 
 Patel;  Resolution  on  Fundamental  Rights 
 and  the  National  Economic  Programme. 
 The  Guwahati  Session  (1926)  -  Presided 
 by  the  Srinivasa  Iyengar;  Resolution  to 
 promote  the  use  of  Khadi  (as  a  symbol  of 
 national  unity)  and  self-reliance.  The 
 Madras  Session  (1927)  -  Presided  by  Dr. 
 Ansari;  Resolution  for  the  boycott  of  the 
 Simon Commission. 
 Q.855.  Which  of  the  following 
 organisations was established in 1885 ? 
 SSC CGL 27/07/2023 (1st shift) 
 (a) Communist Party of India 
 (b) Muslim League 
 (c) East India Organization 
 (d) Indian National Congress 
 Sol.855.(d)  Indian  National  Congress. 
 The  Communist  Party  of  India  (M.N.  Roy, 
 Abani  Mukherji)  was  founded  in  Kanpur 
 on  26  December  1925.  The  All-India 
 Muslim  League  was  a  political  party 
 established  in  Dhaka  in  1906.  The  East 
 India  Association  was  founded  by 
 Dadabhai Naoroji in 1866. 
 Q.856.  Which  Session  of  Congress  and 
 Muslim  League  reached  an 
 understanding  of  creating  a  joint  front 
 against the British regime? 
 SSC CGL 27/07/2023 (3rd shift) 
 (a) Bombay  (b) Allahabad 
 (c) Lucknow  (d) Delhi 
 Sol.856.(c)  Lucknow  (1916)  -  President: 
 A.C.  Majumdar;  Lucknow  Pact  signed 
 between  Congress  (Bal  Gangadhar  Tilak) 
 and  Muslim  League  (Muhammad  Ali 
 Jinnah)  to  build  political  consensus; 
 Unity  between  two  factions  -  Moderates 
 and Extremists of Congress. 
 Q.857.  Which  among  the  following 
 sessions  of  Indian  National  Congress 
 was  the  ?rst  session  to  be  presided  by  a 
 lady ? 
 SSC MTS 02/05/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Calcutta - 1917    (b) Kanpur - 1925 
 (c) Lahore - 1929       (d) Surat - 1907 
 Sol.857.(a)  Calcutta  -  (Annie  Besant, 
 1917)  .  Sessions  of  Indian  National 
 Congress:  Kanpur  (1925)  -  Sarojini 
 Naidu  (First  Indian  woman  president), 
 Lahore  (1929)  -  President  (Jawaharlal 
 Nehru),  Objective  -  Resolution  for  ‘Poorna 
 Swaraj.’  Civil  Disobedience  movement  for 
 complete  independence  to  be  launched, 
 26  January  to  be  observed  as 
 ‘Independence  Day’.  Surat  1907  - 
 President (Rash Behari Ghosh). 
 Q.858.  In  _________  at  its  Madras  session, 
 the  Indian  National  Congress  set  up  an 
 All  Parties  Conference  to  draft  a 
 Constitution for India. 
 SSC MTS 03/05/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) 1922  (b) 1932    (c) 1927    (d) 1915 
 Sol.858.(c)  1927.  Indian  National 
 Congress  (INC)  session  1927  (Madras  ): 
 President  -  M  A  Ansari.  INC  session  1915 
 (Bombay):  President  -  Satyendra 
 Prasanna  Sinha.  Importance  - 
 Constitution  of  the  Congress  was  altered 
 to  admit  the  delegates  from  the 
 extremist  section.  INC  session  1922 
 (Gaya):  President  -  C  R  Das.  Importance  - 
 CR  Das  and  other  leaders  broke  away 
 from  INC,  Formation  of  Swaraj  Party.  INC 
 session  1932  (Delhi):  President  -  Amrit 
 Ranchhorddas Seth. 
 Q.859.  The  Indian  National  Congress 
 passed  Purna  Swaraj  resolution  in  1929 
 under the presidency of ___________ . 
 SSC MTS 09/05/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Mahatma Gandhi 
 (b) Lala Lajpat Rai 
 (c) Jawaharlal Nehru 
 (d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 
 Sol.859.(c)  Jawaharlal  Nehru.  The 
 Poorna  Swaraj  resolution  or  the 
 Declaration  of  Independence  was  passed 
 at  the  Lahore  session  of  Congress  in 
 December  1929.  A  public  declaration 
 was  made  on  26  January  1930.  The 
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 Sol.826.(b)  Atmiya  Sabha.  Brahmo 
 Samaj  {Raja  Ram  Mohan  Roy  founded 
 Brahmo  Sabha  in  1828,  Aim  -  worship  of 
 the  eternal  God.  It  split  into  two  in  1866 
 (Brahmo  Samaj  of  India  led  by  Keshub 
 Chandra  Sen  and  Adi  Brahmo  Samaj  led 
 by  Debendranath  Tagore),  Prominent 
 Leaders:  Debendranath  Tagore,  Keshub 
 Chandra  Sen,  Pt.  Sivnath  Shastri,  and 
 Rabindranath Tagore}. 
 Q.827.  Vishnushastri  Chiplunkar  started 
 a  monthly  Marathi  magazine  __________, 
 in 1874 for the cause of social reform. 
 Graduate Level 04/08/2022 (Shift - 2) 
 (a) Prabhakar  (b) Kesari 
 (c) Nibandhmala     (d) Pudhari 
 Sol.827.(c)  Nibandhmala.  Gopal  Hari 
 Deshmukh  is  writer  of  Prabhakar 
 newspaper.  Kesari  (Marathi  newspaper, 
 1881,  Lokmanya  Bal  Gangadhar  Tilak). 
 Pudhari  (Marathi  daily,  1937). 
 (Newspaper/  Journal  –  Founder):- 
 Udbodhan,  1899,  Swami  Vivekananda. 
 Independent,  1919,  Motilal  Nehru.  Tahzib 
 -ul-Akhlaq, 1871, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. 
 Q.828.  The  Bahishkrit  Hitakarini  Sabha 
 was established at ___________. 
 Graduate Level 04/08/2022 ( Shift - 2) 
 (a) Hyderabad  (b) Bombay 
 (c) Delhi  (d) Nasik 
 Sol.828.(b)  Bombay.  Socio-Religious 
 Movements/Organisations  -  Founders:- 
 (Brahmo  Samaj,  1828  -  Raja  Ram  Mohan 
 Roy),  (Prarthana  Samaj,  1867  -  Dr 
 Atmaram  Panduran),  (Arya  Samaj,  1875  - 
 Swami  Dayanand  Saraswati), 
 (Ramakrishna  Mission,  1897  -  Swami 
 Vivekanand),  (Satyasodhak  Samaj,1873  - 
 Jyotiba  Phule),  (Ahmadiyya  Movement, 
 1889 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmed). 
 Q.829.  The  Vidhava  Vivaha  Uttejaka 
 Mandal  (Society  for  Encouragement  of 
 Widow  Marriage)  was  established  in 
 __________  in  the  second  half  of  the 
 nineteenth century. 
 Graduate Level 05/08/2022 (Shift - 3) 
 (a) Calcutta Presidency 
 (b) Bombay Presidency 
 (c) the Central Provinces 
 (d) the United Provinces 
 Sol.829.(b)  Bombay  Presidency.  It  was 
 established  by  Vishnushastri  Pandit  in 
 1866.  Hindu  Widow  Remarriage  Act 
 (1856)  was  passed  by  Lord  Canning  with 
 the  efforts  of  Ishwar  Chandra 
 Vidyasagar.  Sati  Practice  was  abolished 
 by  William  Bentinck  in  1829  with  the 
 efforts of Raja Ram Mohan Roy. 
 Q.830.  Who  among  the  following 
 founded the Vedanta College in 1825 ? 
 Higher Secondary 05/08/2022 (Shift - 2) 
 (a) Swami Dayanand Saraswati 
 (b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 
 (c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy 
 (d) Swami Vivekananda 
 Sol.830.(c)  Raja  Ram  Mohan  Roy  (Father 
 of  Modern  India)  established  the  Atmiya 
 Sabha  (1815)  and  the  Brahmo  Sabha 
 (1828).  The  Mughal  Emperor  of  Delhi, 
 Akbar  II,  bestowed  upon  him  the  title  of 
 'Raja’. 
 Q.831.  The  Begums  of  Bhopal  founded  a 
 primary  school  for  girls  in  the  early 
 twentieth century at _____. 
 SSC MTS 07/07/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Lahore  (b) Bombay 
 (c) Aligarh  (d) Pune 
 Sol.831.(c)  Aligarh.  The  Begums  of 
 Bhopal  played  a  vital  role,  from  the  early 
 20th  century,  in  promoting  education 
 among  Muslim  women.  They  founded  a 
 primary  school  for  girls  at  Aligarh. 
 Nawab  Begum  was  the  founding 
 Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University. 
 Q.832.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 one  of  the  founders  of  the  Deccan 
 Education  Society (1884)? 
 SSC MTS 11/07/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Dadoba Pandurang     (b) V R Shinde 
 (c) Tulsi Ram  (d) G G Agarkar 
 Sol.832.(d  )  GG  Agarkar.  Paramhansa 
 Sabha  was  founded  by  Dadoba 
 Pandurang.  V  R  Shinde  founded  the 
 Depressed  Class  Mission  in  Mumbai  in 
 1906.  Radha  Swami  Satsang  was 
 founded by Tulsi Ram in 1861. 
 Q.833.  The  Satnami  Movement  in  Central 
 India had a motive to: 
 SSC MTS 18/07/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) improve social status of leather 
 workers 
 (b) ban child marriage 
 (c) open school for girls 
 (d) improve widow status 
 Sol.833.(a)  Ghasidas  started  the 
 Satnami  movement  in  central  India  and 
 their  aim  was  to  establish  an  equal 
 society.  The  Satnami  sect  was  founded 
 by  a  saint  named  “Birbhan”  in  1657  in 
 Narnaul  in  Haryana.  In  1672,  they 
 rebelled  against  the  mighty  Mughal 
 Empire. Aurangzeb crushed the rebellion. 
 Q.834.  Sayyid  Ahmed  Khan  founded 
 Mohammedan  Anglo-Oriental  College  in 
 _________ in 1875 
 SSC MTS 26/07/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Aligarh  (b) Calcutta 
 (c) Delhi  (d) Lahore 
 Sol.834.(a)  Aligarh  and  evolved  into  the 
 Mohammedan  Anglo-Oriental  College. 
 He  has  often  been  criticized  as  the  father 
 of  Two  nation  theory  which  led  to  the 
 formation  of  two  separate  nations  i.e. 
 India  and  Pakistan.  His  writings  include- 
 “The  Causes  of  the  Indian  Revolt'' 
 (paper),  “Tahzebul  Akhlaq”  (magazine), 
 ‘Asbab-e-Baghawat-e-Hind’  (Booklet), 
 ‘Commentary  on  the  Holy  Bible’  (book), 
 etc. 
 Q.835.  Which  of  the  following 
 organisations  was  the  earliest  to  be 
 established,  as  compared  with  the  other 
 three during British rule? 
 SSC MTS 11/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Brahmo Samaj 
 (b) Satya Shodhak Samaj 
 (c) Prarthana Samaj 
 (d) Paramahansa Mandali 
 Sol.835.(a)  Brahmo  Samaj,  Brahmo  also 
 spelled  Brahma,  the  theistic  movement 
 within  Hinduism,  founded  in  Calcutta  in 
 1828 by Raja Ram Mohun Roy. 
 Q.836.  ______  fought  for  the  rights  of  the 
 Dalit community. 
 SSC MTS 14/10/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Subhash Chandra Bose 
 (b) Bipin Chandra Pal 
 (c) Bhimrao Ambedkar 
 (d) Krishnaji Gopal Karve 
 Sol.836.(c)  Bhimrao  Ambedkar  . 
 Ambedkar  fought  for  the  rights  of 
 workers  and  peasants.  In  the  late  1920s 
 and  early  1930s,  he  had  formed  his 
 Independent Labour Party. 
 Q.837.  Who  among  the  following  wrote 
 the  Brahmo  Covenant,  which  was  a 
 statement  of  the  creed  of  the  Brahmo 
 Samaj  and  made  a  list  of  the  duties  and 
 obligations of its members? 
 SSC MTS 02/11/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Keshab Chandra Sen 
 (b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 
 (c) Debendranath Tagore 
 (d) Rammohan Roy 
 Sol.837.(c)  Debendranath  Tagore  .  He 
 was  the  founder  in  1848  of  the  Brahmo 
 religion,  which  today  is  synonymous  with 
 Brahmoism.  In  1863  he  founded 
 Shantiniketan (“Abode of Peace”). 
 Q.838.  Which  of  the  following 
 statements  about  Swami  Dayanand 
 Saraswati is INCORRECT? 
 SSC CGL 13/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) His birthplace was Gujarat. 
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 (b) He authored the book 'Satyarth 
 Prakash'. 
 (c) He was the founder of Arya Samaj. 
 (d) He was the founder of Brahmo 
 Samaj. 
 Sol.838.(d)  The  Brahmo  Samaj  was 
 founded  by  Raja  Rammohan  Roy  along 
 with  Dwarkanath  Tagore  and  others  on 
 August 20, 1828. 
 Q.839.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 NOT a Nayanar saint? 
 SSC CHSL 13/04/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Sundarar  (b) Appar 
 (c) Sambandar  (d) Andal 
 Sol.839.(d)  Andal  .  The  Nayanars  were  a 
 group  of  63  poet-saints  living  in  Tamil 
 Nadu  during  the  6th  to  8th  centuries  CE 
 who  were  devoted  to  the  Hindu  god 
 Shiva.  Along  with  the  Alwars,  their 
 contemporaries  who  were  devoted  to 
 Vishnu,  they  in?uenced  the  Bhakti 
 movement in early medieval South India. 
 Q.840.  Which  of  the  following  is  NOT  a 
 correct  match  of  Dargah  and  its 
 respective location? 
 SSC CHSL 06/08/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya Dargah - 
 Agra 
 (b) Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki 
 Dargah - Delhi 
 (c) Haji Ali Dargah - Mumbai 
 (d) Shaikh Muinuddin Sijzi (chishti) 
 Dargah - Ajmer 
 Sol.840.(a)  Shaikh  Nizamuddin  Auliya 
 Dargah  is  the  Dargah  of  the  Su?  saint 
 Khwaja  Nizamuddin  Auliya.  It  is  located 
 in the Nizamuddin West area of Delhi 
 Q.841.  Veteran  freedom  ?ghter,  social 
 reformer  and  feminist  Savithribai  Phule 
 hailed  from  which  of  the  following  states 
 of India? 
 SSC CGL 03/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Maharashtra  (b) Odisha 
 (c) Rajasthan  (d) Gujarat 
 Sol.841.(a)  Maharashtra  .  Savitibai  Phule 
 -  She  was  the  ?rst  female  teacher  of 
 India  and  opened  a  school  for  women  in 
 1848,  Married  to  Jyotirao  Phule 
 (Founded  Satya  Shodhak  Samaj  in  1873 
 in Pune). 
 Q.842.  Who  among  the  following  is 
 known  as  the  'father  of  Muslim 
 renaissance' in Bengal? 
 SSC CGL 04/03/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan 
 (b) Ameer Ali 
 (c) Nawab Abdul Latif Khan 
 (d) Nawab Salimullah Khan 
 Sol.842.(c)  Nawab  Abdul  Latif  Khan  .  His 
 title,  Nawab,  was  awarded  by  the  British 
 in  1880.  He  was  one  of  the  ?rst  Muslim 
 in  nineteenth  century  India  to  embrace 
 the idea of modernization. 
 Q.843.  Who  among  the  following 
 scholars  is  associated  with  the 
 Tibet-home theory of the Aryans? 
 SSC CGL 07/03/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Dayanand Saraswati 
 (b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak 
 (c) MacDonell 
 (d) Max Muller 
 Sol.843.(a)  Swami  Dayanand  Saraswati 
 in  his  book  Satyarth  Prakash  propounded 
 that  the  original  abode  of  the  Aryans  was 
 Tibet.  The  reasoning  behind  this  was  that 
 due  to  the  extreme  cold  in  Tibet,  sun  and 
 ?re  were  worshiped  and  the  ?ora  and 
 fauna  described  in  the  Rigveda  were 
 found in Tibet. 
 Indian National Congress and 
 Its Sessions 
 Q.844.  Indian  National  Congress 
 celebrated  the  ?rst  Independence  Day  in 
 Colonial India on _____________ . 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) 2 October 1929 
 (b) 29 December 1929 
 (c) 15 August 1930 
 (d) 26 January 1930 
 Sol.844.(d)  26  January  1930.  The  Indian 
 National  Congress  passed  'Complete 
 Swaraj'  in  its  Lahore  session  on  19 
 December  1929.  The  president  of  this 
 session  was  Jawaharlal  Nehru.  National 
 Symbols  of  India  and  adopted  date: 
 National  Flag  of  India  -  Tiranga  (22  July 
 1947),  Indian  National  Calendar  -  Saka 
 Calendar  (22  March  1957),  National  Song 
 of  India  -  Vande  Matram  (24  January 
 1950),  National  Anthem  of  India  -  Jana 
 Gana Mana (24 January 1950). 
 Q.845.  Who  led  the  Indian  National 
 Congress at its ?rst annual session? 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Surendra Nath Banerjee 
 (b) Dadabhai Naoroji 
 (c) WC Banerjee 
 (d) AO Hume 
 Sol.845.(c)  WC  Banerjee.  Important 
 Congress  sessions:  First  Session  -  held 
 at  Bombay  in  1885.  Second  Session  - 
 held  at  Calcutta  in  1886,  President  - 
 Dadabhai  Naoroji.  Third  Session  -  held  at 
 Madras  in  1887,  President  -  Syed 
 Badruddin  Tyabji  (?rst  muslim 
 President).  Fourth  Session  -  held  at 
 Allahabad  in  1888,  President  -  George 
 Yule  (?rst  English  President).  1896 
 session  (Calcutta)  President  - 
 Rahimtullah  Sayani,  National  Song 
 ‘Vande  Mataram’  sung  for  the  ?rst  time 
 by Rabindranath Tagore. 
 Q.846.  Who  was  the  ?rst  Woman 
 President of Indian National Congress? 
 SSC MTS 08/09/2023 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) Sarojini Naidu  (b) Asaf Ali 
 (c) Annie Besant       (d) Usha Mehta 
 Sol.846.(c)  Annie  Besant  :  First  woman 
 who  presided  over  the  calcutta  session 
 (1917)  of  Indian  National  Congress. 
 Sarojini  Naidu  -  ?rst  Indian  women 
 president  of  Indian  national  congress 
 (1925,  Kanpur  session)  and  the  ?rst 
 woman  Governor  of  the  United  Provinces 
 in 1947. 
 Q.847.  Which  ?ag  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress was adopted in 1931? 
 SSC MTS 12/09/2023 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) A two colour ?ag with charkha made 
 by cloth 
 (b) A tricolour ?ag made by Khadi with a 
 Charkha symbol 
 (c) One colour ?ag with charkha symbol 
 (d) A blue colour ?ag made by cloth 
 Sol.847.(b)  Ad  -  Hoc  Flag  Committee  : 
 Formed  in  1947  under  Rajendra  Prasad. 
 Pingali  Venkayya  -  Designer  of  National 
 Flag  of  India  (1921).  National  ?ag  was 
 adopted  on  July  22,  1947.  Ratio  of  the 
 length  to  the  breadth  of  the  Indian  Flag  - 
 3:2.  National  ?ag  of  India  was  ?rst 
 hoisted  on  7th  August,  1906  in  Kolkata  at 
 the  Parsee  Bagan  Square  (Green  Park). 
 First  Indian  ?ag  was  hoisted  on  a  foreign 
 land  by  Madame  Bhikaji  Cama  (1907  - 
 Germany). 
 Q.848.  In  the  1939  Tripuri  Congress 
 Presidential  Election,  Pattabhi 
 Sitaramayya was defeated by: 
 SSC MTS 13/09/2023 (1st Shift) 
 (a) Mahatma Gandhi 
 (b) Rajendra Prasad 
 (c) Subhas Chandra Bose 
 (d) Jawaharlal Nehru 
 Sol.848.(c)  Subhas  Chandra  Bose  was 
 elected  President  of  the  Haripura 
 Congress  Session  in  1938.  He  resigned 
 as  congress  president  in  April  1939.  Dr. 
 Rajendra  Prasad  replaced  Subhas 
 Chandra  Bose  as  the  new  congress 
 president. 
 Q.849.  In  which  session  of  All  India 
 Congress  Committee  was  the  Quit  India 
 Resolution accepted? 
 SSC CHSL 03/08/2023 (4th shift) 
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 (a) Calcutta  (b) Delhi 
 (c) Madras  (d) Bombay 
 Sol.849.(d)  Bombay.  Quit  India 
 Movement  -  It  was  launched  at  the 
 Bombay  session  of  the  All  India 
 Congress  Committee  by  Mahatma 
 Gandhi  on  8  August  1942,  during  World 
 War  II,  demanding  an  end  to  British  rule 
 in  India.  Yusuf  Meher  Ali  coined  the 
 slogan ‘Quit India’. 
 Q.850.  In  which  session  of  the  Indian 
 National  Congress  was  the  resolution 
 declaring Poorna Swaraj passed? 
 SSC CHSL 07/08/2023 (1st shift) 
 (a) Calcutta  (b) Bombay 
 (c) Madras  (d) Lahore 
 Sol.850.(d)  Lahore  (1929).  Pandit 
 Jawahar  Lal  Nehru  presided  over  the 
 Lahore  session  of  congress  and  hoisted 
 the  tricolor  ?ag  of  India.  Congress 
 Session  and  President:  Lucknow  session 
 -  Ambica  Charan  Mazumdar  (1916), 
 Tripuri  -  Subhash  Chandra  Bose  (1939), 
 Gaya  -  Chittaranjan  Das  (1922),  Kanpur  - 
 Sarojini  Naidu  (1925),  Karachi  - 
 Vallabhbhai  Patel  (1931),  Ramgarh  - 
 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1940). 
 Q.851.  The  second  annual  session  of 
 Indian  National  Congress  was  held  at 
 which of the following places ? 
 SSC CHSL 11/08/2023 (2nd shift) 
 (a) Bombay  (b) Delhi 
 (c) Calcutta  (d) Madras 
 Sol.851.(c)  Calcutta  (1886,  Dada  Bhai 
 Naoroji)  .  Indian  National  Congress: 
 Founded  -  28  December  1885  in  Bombay 
 by  Alan  Octavian  Hume.  First  President  - 
 Womesh  Chandra  Banerjee.  Third 
 Session  (1887,  Madras)  -  Badruddin 
 Tyabji. 
 Q.852.  Who  was  the  president  of  the 
 second  session  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress? 
 SSC CGL 20/07/2023 (1st shift) 
 (a) Dadabhai Naoroji 
 (b) Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee 
 (c) Pherozeshah Mehta 
 (d) George Yule 
 Sol.852.(a)  Dadabhai  Naroji.  Indian 
 National  Congress:  The  Second  session  - 
 Calcutta  (1886),  The  ?rst  session  - 
 Bombay  (1885).  The  ?rst  president  - 
 Womesh  Chandra  Bonnerjee.  First 
 General Secretary - A.O Hume. 
 Q.853.  Self-Government  or  'Swaraj'  as 
 the  ultimate  goal  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress-this  declaration  was  made  by 
 Dadabhai Naoroji in which of the 
 following sessions of the INC ? 
 SSC CGL 20/07/2023 (4th shift) 
 (a) Bombay  (b) Calcutta 
 (c) Madras  (d) Bankipur 
 Sol.853.(b)  Calcutta.  Dadabhai  Naoroji 
 (Grand  Old  Man  of  India)  founded  the 
 Rahnumai  Mazdayasnan  Sabha  in  1851 
 to  revive  the  Zoroastrian  religion  and 
 formed  the  London  India  Society  in  1865. 
 He  Became  a  member  of  the  Legislative 
 Council  of  Mumbai  during  1885-88  and 
 President  of  the  Congress  Party  in  1886 
 (Calcutta),  1893  (Lahore)  and  1906 
 (Calcutta).  He  gave  the  theory  of  ‘drain  of 
 wealth’  in  his  book  “Poverty  and 
 Un-British Rule in India”. 
 Q.854.  When  did  the  All  India  Congress 
 formalize  the  demand  for  'Purna  Swaraj' 
 or full independence for India? 
 SSC CGL 21/07/2023 (3rd shift) 
 (a) At its Karachi Session in 1931 
 (b) At its Lahore Session in 1929 
 (c) At its Guwahati Session in 1926 
 (d) At its Madras Session in 1927 
 Sol.854.(b)  Lahore  Session  (1929)  - 
 Jawaharlal  Nehru  was  elected  as 
 President  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress  (1929).  The  Karachi  Session 
 (1931)  -  Chaired  by  Sardar  Vallabhbhai 
 Patel;  Resolution  on  Fundamental  Rights 
 and  the  National  Economic  Programme. 
 The  Guwahati  Session  (1926)  -  Presided 
 by  the  Srinivasa  Iyengar;  Resolution  to 
 promote  the  use  of  Khadi  (as  a  symbol  of 
 national  unity)  and  self-reliance.  The 
 Madras  Session  (1927)  -  Presided  by  Dr. 
 Ansari;  Resolution  for  the  boycott  of  the 
 Simon Commission. 
 Q.855.  Which  of  the  following 
 organisations was established in 1885 ? 
 SSC CGL 27/07/2023 (1st shift) 
 (a) Communist Party of India 
 (b) Muslim League 
 (c) East India Organization 
 (d) Indian National Congress 
 Sol.855.(d)  Indian  National  Congress. 
 The  Communist  Party  of  India  (M.N.  Roy, 
 Abani  Mukherji)  was  founded  in  Kanpur 
 on  26  December  1925.  The  All-India 
 Muslim  League  was  a  political  party 
 established  in  Dhaka  in  1906.  The  East 
 India  Association  was  founded  by 
 Dadabhai Naoroji in 1866. 
 Q.856.  Which  Session  of  Congress  and 
 Muslim  League  reached  an 
 understanding  of  creating  a  joint  front 
 against the British regime? 
 SSC CGL 27/07/2023 (3rd shift) 
 (a) Bombay  (b) Allahabad 
 (c) Lucknow  (d) Delhi 
 Sol.856.(c)  Lucknow  (1916)  -  President: 
 A.C.  Majumdar;  Lucknow  Pact  signed 
 between  Congress  (Bal  Gangadhar  Tilak) 
 and  Muslim  League  (Muhammad  Ali 
 Jinnah)  to  build  political  consensus; 
 Unity  between  two  factions  -  Moderates 
 and Extremists of Congress. 
 Q.857.  Which  among  the  following 
 sessions  of  Indian  National  Congress 
 was  the  ?rst  session  to  be  presided  by  a 
 lady ? 
 SSC MTS 02/05/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Calcutta - 1917    (b) Kanpur - 1925 
 (c) Lahore - 1929       (d) Surat - 1907 
 Sol.857.(a)  Calcutta  -  (Annie  Besant, 
 1917)  .  Sessions  of  Indian  National 
 Congress:  Kanpur  (1925)  -  Sarojini 
 Naidu  (First  Indian  woman  president), 
 Lahore  (1929)  -  President  (Jawaharlal 
 Nehru),  Objective  -  Resolution  for  ‘Poorna 
 Swaraj.’  Civil  Disobedience  movement  for 
 complete  independence  to  be  launched, 
 26  January  to  be  observed  as 
 ‘Independence  Day’.  Surat  1907  - 
 President (Rash Behari Ghosh). 
 Q.858.  In  _________  at  its  Madras  session, 
 the  Indian  National  Congress  set  up  an 
 All  Parties  Conference  to  draft  a 
 Constitution for India. 
 SSC MTS 03/05/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) 1922  (b) 1932    (c) 1927    (d) 1915 
 Sol.858.(c)  1927.  Indian  National 
 Congress  (INC)  session  1927  (Madras  ): 
 President  -  M  A  Ansari.  INC  session  1915 
 (Bombay):  President  -  Satyendra 
 Prasanna  Sinha.  Importance  - 
 Constitution  of  the  Congress  was  altered 
 to  admit  the  delegates  from  the 
 extremist  section.  INC  session  1922 
 (Gaya):  President  -  C  R  Das.  Importance  - 
 CR  Das  and  other  leaders  broke  away 
 from  INC,  Formation  of  Swaraj  Party.  INC 
 session  1932  (Delhi):  President  -  Amrit 
 Ranchhorddas Seth. 
 Q.859.  The  Indian  National  Congress 
 passed  Purna  Swaraj  resolution  in  1929 
 under the presidency of ___________ . 
 SSC MTS 09/05/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Mahatma Gandhi 
 (b) Lala Lajpat Rai 
 (c) Jawaharlal Nehru 
 (d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 
 Sol.859.(c)  Jawaharlal  Nehru.  The 
 Poorna  Swaraj  resolution  or  the 
 Declaration  of  Independence  was  passed 
 at  the  Lahore  session  of  Congress  in 
 December  1929.  A  public  declaration 
 was  made  on  26  January  1930.  The 
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 resolution  was  a  short  750-word 
 document. 
 Q.860.  The  split  in  Indian  National 
 Congress occurred in ________ . 
 SSC MTS 17/05/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) 1901   (b) 1905   (c) 1903   (d) 1907 
 Sol.860.(d)  1907.  The  Surat  Split  was 
 the  splitting  of  Indian  National  Congress 
 into  two  groups  -  Moderates  and 
 Radicals. 
 Q.861.  Badruddin  Tyabji  addressed  the 
 congress as president in ______ . 
 SSC MTS 13/06/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) 1887  (b) 1888   (c) 1885   (d) 1886 
 Sol.861.(a)  1887  (Madras  Session). 
 Badruddin  Tyabji  -  First  muslim  and  third 
 president  of  the  Indian  national  congress 
 (INC).  Important  sessions  of  Indian 
 national  congress  and  presidents:  1st 
 (1885,  Bombay  Session)  -  W.C.Banerjee. 
 4th  (Allahabad  Session,  1888)  -  George 
 Yule (?rst English). 
 Q.862.  The  Indian  National  Congress 
 was  established  when  72  delegates  from 
 all  over  the  country  met  at  Bombay  in 
 December _______. 
 SSC MTS 20/06/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) 1890   (b) 1858   (c) 1885   (d) 1872 
 Sol.862.(c)  1885.  Founder  :  Allan 
 Octavian  Hume.  First  President:  W.C. 
 Bannerjee.  First  meeting  -  Gokuldas 
 Tejpal  Sanskrit  College  (Bombay). 
 Prominent  delegates  included  Dadabhai 
 Naoroji,  Surendranath  Banerjee, 
 Badruddin  Tyabji,  Pherozeshah  Mehta,  W. 
 C.  Bonnerjee,  S.  Ramaswami  Mudaliar,  S. 
 Subramania Iyer, and Romesh Chunder 
 Dutt. 
 Q.863.  Who  among  the  following  was  the 
 President of the Indian National Congress 
 during the 1915 session? 
 SSC CGL Tier II  06/03/2023 
 (a) Satyendra Prasanna Sinha 
 (b) Ambica Charan Mazumdar 
 (c) Bhupendra Nath Bose 
 (d) Madan Mohan Malaviya 
 Sol.863.(a)  Satyendra  Prasanna  Sinha. 
 1885  -  Womesh  Chandra  Bonnerjee,  1886 
 -  Shri  Dadabhai  Naoroji,  1887  -  Badruddin 
 Tyabji,  1890  -  Pherozeshah  Mehta,  1892  - 
 Womesh  Chandra  Bonnerjee,  1895  - 
 Surendranath  Banerjee,  1905  -  Gopal 
 Krishna  Gokhale,  1906  -  Shri  Dadabhai 
 Naoroji,  1907  -  Rash  Behari  Ghosh,  1909  - 
 Madan  Mohan  Malaviya,  1916  -  Ambica 
 Charan  Mazumdar,  1917  -  Annie  Besant, 
 1919 - Motilal Nehru. 
 Q.864.  Sarojini  Naidu  was  elected  ?rst 
 Indian  woman  President  of  the  Indian 
 National Congress at _________. 
 SSC CGL 06/12/2022 (1st Shift) 
 (a) Kanpur  (b) Ahmedabad 
 (c) Delhi  (d) Nagpur 
 Sol.864.(a)  Kanpur.  Sarojini  Naidu 
 (Nightingale  of  India)  was  the  ?rst 
 woman  Governor  of  a  State  (Uttar 
 Pradesh)  in  free  India.  The  ?rst  woman 
 president  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress was Annie Besant in 1917. 
 Q.865.  How many delegates participated 
 in  the  second  session  of  Indian  National 
 Congress? 
 SSC CGL 07/12/2022 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) 434    (b) 628    (c) 212    (d) 190 
 Sol.865.(a)  434  ,  Held  (December  27-30, 
 1886,  Calcutta),  President  (Shri  Dadabhai 
 Naoroji),  Congress  decided  to  set  up 
 Provincial  Congress  Committees  across 
 the  country.  Father  of  Indian  National 
 Congress:  Allan  Octavian  Hume  (known 
 for his Safety valve theory). 
 Q.866.  In  1929,  Indian  National  Congress 
 demanded  complete  independence 
 under the presidentship of_____. 
 SSC MTS 22/07/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Dadabhai Naoroji 
 (b) Jawaharlal Nehru 
 (c) Mahatma Gandhi 
 (d) Chitta Ranjan Das 
 Sol.866.(b)  Jawaharlal  Nehru.  The  Indian 
 National  Congress,  on  19  December 
 1929,  passed  the  historic  'Purna  Swaraj' 
 –  (total  independence)  resolution  –  at  its 
 Lahore  session  under  the  presidentship 
 of  Jawahar  Lal  Nehru.  The  Indian 
 tricolour  ?ag  was  also  hoisted  by  him  on 
 the bank of the Ravi river. 
 Q.867.  In which of the following sessions 
 of  the  Indian  National  Congress  did 
 George  Yule  become  the  President  in 
 1888? 
 SSC CGL 12/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Calcutta  (b) Allahabad 
 (c) Madras  (d) Bombay 
 Sol.867.(b)  Allahabad  .  On  28  December 
 1885,  the  Indian  National  Congress  was 
 founded  at  Gokuldas  Tejpal  Sanskrit 
 College in Bombay.  Founder  - A. O Hume. 
 Q.868.  In  which  of  the  following  years 
 did  the  resolution  at  the  Karachi  Session 
 of  the  Indian  National  Congress  dwell  on 
 how  Independent  India’s  Constitution 
 should look? 
 SSC CGL 13/04/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) 1931    (b) 1928    (c) 1946    (d) 1945 
 Sol.868.(a) 1931  . 
 In  1928,  Motilal  Nehru  and  other 
 Congress  leaders  drafted  a  constitution 
 for India. 
 Q.869.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 elected  as  the  President  of  the  Indian 
 National  Congress  in  the  year  1938  and 
 1939? 
 SSC MTS 07/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Subhash Chandra Bose 
 (b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad 
 (c) C Rajagopalachari 
 (d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 
 Sol.869.(a) Subhash Chandra Bose  . 
 Q.870.  Who  among  the  following 
 presided  over  the  special  session  of 
 Congress  in  September  1923  and  at  the 
 age  of  35  became  the  youngest  man  to 
 be  elected  as  the  President  of  the 
 Congress? 
 SSC CHSL 06/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Mahadev Govind Ranade 
 (b) Ram Manohar Lohia 
 (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak 
 (d) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 
 Sol.870.(d)  Maulana  Abul  Kalam  Azad  . 
 He  was  also  a  noted  writer,  poet  and 
 journalist.  He  was  a  prominent  political 
 leader  and  was  elected  as  Congress 
 President in 1923 and 1940. 
 Q.871.  Who  was  the  President  of  the 
 Indian  National  Congress  when  India 
 won its freedom in the  year 1947 ? 
 SSC CHSL 09/08/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Abul Kalam Azad  (b) Vallabhbhai Patel 
 (c) Jawaharlal Nehru  (d) J. B. Kripalani 
 Sol.871.(d)  J.  B.  Kripalani  (Acharya 
 Kriplani)  was  the  president  of  the  Indian 
 National  Congress  during  the  transfer  of 
 power.  He  was  the  husband  of  Sucheta 
 Kripalani, who was the ?rst woman chief 
 minister (Uttar Pradesh). 
 Q.872.  The  National  Anthem  of  India, 
 ‘Jana  Gana  Mana’  was  ?rst  sung  at  the 
 ______  Session  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress. 
 SSC CPO 24/11/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Calcutta  (b) Lahore 
 (c) Belgaum  (d) Tripuri 
 Sol.872.(a)  Calcutta  in  1911  Session  of 
 the  Indian  National  Congress  on  27 
 December  .  The  national  anthem  was 
 written  by  RabindraNath  Tagore.This 
 session  was  headed  by  Bishan  Narayan 
 Dhar. 
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 Sol.826.(b)  Atmiya  Sabha.  Brahmo 
 Samaj  {Raja  Ram  Mohan  Roy  founded 
 Brahmo  Sabha  in  1828,  Aim  -  worship  of 
 the  eternal  God.  It  split  into  two  in  1866 
 (Brahmo  Samaj  of  India  led  by  Keshub 
 Chandra  Sen  and  Adi  Brahmo  Samaj  led 
 by  Debendranath  Tagore),  Prominent 
 Leaders:  Debendranath  Tagore,  Keshub 
 Chandra  Sen,  Pt.  Sivnath  Shastri,  and 
 Rabindranath Tagore}. 
 Q.827.  Vishnushastri  Chiplunkar  started 
 a  monthly  Marathi  magazine  __________, 
 in 1874 for the cause of social reform. 
 Graduate Level 04/08/2022 (Shift - 2) 
 (a) Prabhakar  (b) Kesari 
 (c) Nibandhmala     (d) Pudhari 
 Sol.827.(c)  Nibandhmala.  Gopal  Hari 
 Deshmukh  is  writer  of  Prabhakar 
 newspaper.  Kesari  (Marathi  newspaper, 
 1881,  Lokmanya  Bal  Gangadhar  Tilak). 
 Pudhari  (Marathi  daily,  1937). 
 (Newspaper/  Journal  –  Founder):- 
 Udbodhan,  1899,  Swami  Vivekananda. 
 Independent,  1919,  Motilal  Nehru.  Tahzib 
 -ul-Akhlaq, 1871, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. 
 Q.828.  The  Bahishkrit  Hitakarini  Sabha 
 was established at ___________. 
 Graduate Level 04/08/2022 ( Shift - 2) 
 (a) Hyderabad  (b) Bombay 
 (c) Delhi  (d) Nasik 
 Sol.828.(b)  Bombay.  Socio-Religious 
 Movements/Organisations  -  Founders:- 
 (Brahmo  Samaj,  1828  -  Raja  Ram  Mohan 
 Roy),  (Prarthana  Samaj,  1867  -  Dr 
 Atmaram  Panduran),  (Arya  Samaj,  1875  - 
 Swami  Dayanand  Saraswati), 
 (Ramakrishna  Mission,  1897  -  Swami 
 Vivekanand),  (Satyasodhak  Samaj,1873  - 
 Jyotiba  Phule),  (Ahmadiyya  Movement, 
 1889 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmed). 
 Q.829.  The  Vidhava  Vivaha  Uttejaka 
 Mandal  (Society  for  Encouragement  of 
 Widow  Marriage)  was  established  in 
 __________  in  the  second  half  of  the 
 nineteenth century. 
 Graduate Level 05/08/2022 (Shift - 3) 
 (a) Calcutta Presidency 
 (b) Bombay Presidency 
 (c) the Central Provinces 
 (d) the United Provinces 
 Sol.829.(b)  Bombay  Presidency.  It  was 
 established  by  Vishnushastri  Pandit  in 
 1866.  Hindu  Widow  Remarriage  Act 
 (1856)  was  passed  by  Lord  Canning  with 
 the  efforts  of  Ishwar  Chandra 
 Vidyasagar.  Sati  Practice  was  abolished 
 by  William  Bentinck  in  1829  with  the 
 efforts of Raja Ram Mohan Roy. 
 Q.830.  Who  among  the  following 
 founded the Vedanta College in 1825 ? 
 Higher Secondary 05/08/2022 (Shift - 2) 
 (a) Swami Dayanand Saraswati 
 (b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 
 (c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy 
 (d) Swami Vivekananda 
 Sol.830.(c)  Raja  Ram  Mohan  Roy  (Father 
 of  Modern  India)  established  the  Atmiya 
 Sabha  (1815)  and  the  Brahmo  Sabha 
 (1828).  The  Mughal  Emperor  of  Delhi, 
 Akbar  II,  bestowed  upon  him  the  title  of 
 'Raja’. 
 Q.831.  The  Begums  of  Bhopal  founded  a 
 primary  school  for  girls  in  the  early 
 twentieth century at _____. 
 SSC MTS 07/07/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Lahore  (b) Bombay 
 (c) Aligarh  (d) Pune 
 Sol.831.(c)  Aligarh.  The  Begums  of 
 Bhopal  played  a  vital  role,  from  the  early 
 20th  century,  in  promoting  education 
 among  Muslim  women.  They  founded  a 
 primary  school  for  girls  at  Aligarh. 
 Nawab  Begum  was  the  founding 
 Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University. 
 Q.832.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 one  of  the  founders  of  the  Deccan 
 Education  Society (1884)? 
 SSC MTS 11/07/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Dadoba Pandurang     (b) V R Shinde 
 (c) Tulsi Ram  (d) G G Agarkar 
 Sol.832.(d  )  GG  Agarkar.  Paramhansa 
 Sabha  was  founded  by  Dadoba 
 Pandurang.  V  R  Shinde  founded  the 
 Depressed  Class  Mission  in  Mumbai  in 
 1906.  Radha  Swami  Satsang  was 
 founded by Tulsi Ram in 1861. 
 Q.833.  The  Satnami  Movement  in  Central 
 India had a motive to: 
 SSC MTS 18/07/2022 (Morning) 
 (a) improve social status of leather 
 workers 
 (b) ban child marriage 
 (c) open school for girls 
 (d) improve widow status 
 Sol.833.(a)  Ghasidas  started  the 
 Satnami  movement  in  central  India  and 
 their  aim  was  to  establish  an  equal 
 society.  The  Satnami  sect  was  founded 
 by  a  saint  named  “Birbhan”  in  1657  in 
 Narnaul  in  Haryana.  In  1672,  they 
 rebelled  against  the  mighty  Mughal 
 Empire. Aurangzeb crushed the rebellion. 
 Q.834.  Sayyid  Ahmed  Khan  founded 
 Mohammedan  Anglo-Oriental  College  in 
 _________ in 1875 
 SSC MTS 26/07/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Aligarh  (b) Calcutta 
 (c) Delhi  (d) Lahore 
 Sol.834.(a)  Aligarh  and  evolved  into  the 
 Mohammedan  Anglo-Oriental  College. 
 He  has  often  been  criticized  as  the  father 
 of  Two  nation  theory  which  led  to  the 
 formation  of  two  separate  nations  i.e. 
 India  and  Pakistan.  His  writings  include- 
 “The  Causes  of  the  Indian  Revolt'' 
 (paper),  “Tahzebul  Akhlaq”  (magazine), 
 ‘Asbab-e-Baghawat-e-Hind’  (Booklet), 
 ‘Commentary  on  the  Holy  Bible’  (book), 
 etc. 
 Q.835.  Which  of  the  following 
 organisations  was  the  earliest  to  be 
 established,  as  compared  with  the  other 
 three during British rule? 
 SSC MTS 11/10/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Brahmo Samaj 
 (b) Satya Shodhak Samaj 
 (c) Prarthana Samaj 
 (d) Paramahansa Mandali 
 Sol.835.(a)  Brahmo  Samaj,  Brahmo  also 
 spelled  Brahma,  the  theistic  movement 
 within  Hinduism,  founded  in  Calcutta  in 
 1828 by Raja Ram Mohun Roy. 
 Q.836.  ______  fought  for  the  rights  of  the 
 Dalit community. 
 SSC MTS 14/10/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Subhash Chandra Bose 
 (b) Bipin Chandra Pal 
 (c) Bhimrao Ambedkar 
 (d) Krishnaji Gopal Karve 
 Sol.836.(c)  Bhimrao  Ambedkar  . 
 Ambedkar  fought  for  the  rights  of 
 workers  and  peasants.  In  the  late  1920s 
 and  early  1930s,  he  had  formed  his 
 Independent Labour Party. 
 Q.837.  Who  among  the  following  wrote 
 the  Brahmo  Covenant,  which  was  a 
 statement  of  the  creed  of  the  Brahmo 
 Samaj  and  made  a  list  of  the  duties  and 
 obligations of its members? 
 SSC MTS 02/11/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Keshab Chandra Sen 
 (b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 
 (c) Debendranath Tagore 
 (d) Rammohan Roy 
 Sol.837.(c)  Debendranath  Tagore  .  He 
 was  the  founder  in  1848  of  the  Brahmo 
 religion,  which  today  is  synonymous  with 
 Brahmoism.  In  1863  he  founded 
 Shantiniketan (“Abode of Peace”). 
 Q.838.  Which  of  the  following 
 statements  about  Swami  Dayanand 
 Saraswati is INCORRECT? 
 SSC CGL 13/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) His birthplace was Gujarat. 
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 (b) He authored the book 'Satyarth 
 Prakash'. 
 (c) He was the founder of Arya Samaj. 
 (d) He was the founder of Brahmo 
 Samaj. 
 Sol.838.(d)  The  Brahmo  Samaj  was 
 founded  by  Raja  Rammohan  Roy  along 
 with  Dwarkanath  Tagore  and  others  on 
 August 20, 1828. 
 Q.839.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 NOT a Nayanar saint? 
 SSC CHSL 13/04/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Sundarar  (b) Appar 
 (c) Sambandar  (d) Andal 
 Sol.839.(d)  Andal  .  The  Nayanars  were  a 
 group  of  63  poet-saints  living  in  Tamil 
 Nadu  during  the  6th  to  8th  centuries  CE 
 who  were  devoted  to  the  Hindu  god 
 Shiva.  Along  with  the  Alwars,  their 
 contemporaries  who  were  devoted  to 
 Vishnu,  they  in?uenced  the  Bhakti 
 movement in early medieval South India. 
 Q.840.  Which  of  the  following  is  NOT  a 
 correct  match  of  Dargah  and  its 
 respective location? 
 SSC CHSL 06/08/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya Dargah - 
 Agra 
 (b) Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki 
 Dargah - Delhi 
 (c) Haji Ali Dargah - Mumbai 
 (d) Shaikh Muinuddin Sijzi (chishti) 
 Dargah - Ajmer 
 Sol.840.(a)  Shaikh  Nizamuddin  Auliya 
 Dargah  is  the  Dargah  of  the  Su?  saint 
 Khwaja  Nizamuddin  Auliya.  It  is  located 
 in the Nizamuddin West area of Delhi 
 Q.841.  Veteran  freedom  ?ghter,  social 
 reformer  and  feminist  Savithribai  Phule 
 hailed  from  which  of  the  following  states 
 of India? 
 SSC CGL 03/03/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Maharashtra  (b) Odisha 
 (c) Rajasthan  (d) Gujarat 
 Sol.841.(a)  Maharashtra  .  Savitibai  Phule 
 -  She  was  the  ?rst  female  teacher  of 
 India  and  opened  a  school  for  women  in 
 1848,  Married  to  Jyotirao  Phule 
 (Founded  Satya  Shodhak  Samaj  in  1873 
 in Pune). 
 Q.842.  Who  among  the  following  is 
 known  as  the  'father  of  Muslim 
 renaissance' in Bengal? 
 SSC CGL 04/03/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan 
 (b) Ameer Ali 
 (c) Nawab Abdul Latif Khan 
 (d) Nawab Salimullah Khan 
 Sol.842.(c)  Nawab  Abdul  Latif  Khan  .  His 
 title,  Nawab,  was  awarded  by  the  British 
 in  1880.  He  was  one  of  the  ?rst  Muslim 
 in  nineteenth  century  India  to  embrace 
 the idea of modernization. 
 Q.843.  Who  among  the  following 
 scholars  is  associated  with  the 
 Tibet-home theory of the Aryans? 
 SSC CGL 07/03/2020 (Evening) 
 (a) Dayanand Saraswati 
 (b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak 
 (c) MacDonell 
 (d) Max Muller 
 Sol.843.(a)  Swami  Dayanand  Saraswati 
 in  his  book  Satyarth  Prakash  propounded 
 that  the  original  abode  of  the  Aryans  was 
 Tibet.  The  reasoning  behind  this  was  that 
 due  to  the  extreme  cold  in  Tibet,  sun  and 
 ?re  were  worshiped  and  the  ?ora  and 
 fauna  described  in  the  Rigveda  were 
 found in Tibet. 
 Indian National Congress and 
 Its Sessions 
 Q.844.  Indian  National  Congress 
 celebrated  the  ?rst  Independence  Day  in 
 Colonial India on _____________ . 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) 2 October 1929 
 (b) 29 December 1929 
 (c) 15 August 1930 
 (d) 26 January 1930 
 Sol.844.(d)  26  January  1930.  The  Indian 
 National  Congress  passed  'Complete 
 Swaraj'  in  its  Lahore  session  on  19 
 December  1929.  The  president  of  this 
 session  was  Jawaharlal  Nehru.  National 
 Symbols  of  India  and  adopted  date: 
 National  Flag  of  India  -  Tiranga  (22  July 
 1947),  Indian  National  Calendar  -  Saka 
 Calendar  (22  March  1957),  National  Song 
 of  India  -  Vande  Matram  (24  January 
 1950),  National  Anthem  of  India  -  Jana 
 Gana Mana (24 January 1950). 
 Q.845.  Who  led  the  Indian  National 
 Congress at its ?rst annual session? 
 SSC Stenographer 13/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Surendra Nath Banerjee 
 (b) Dadabhai Naoroji 
 (c) WC Banerjee 
 (d) AO Hume 
 Sol.845.(c)  WC  Banerjee.  Important 
 Congress  sessions:  First  Session  -  held 
 at  Bombay  in  1885.  Second  Session  - 
 held  at  Calcutta  in  1886,  President  - 
 Dadabhai  Naoroji.  Third  Session  -  held  at 
 Madras  in  1887,  President  -  Syed 
 Badruddin  Tyabji  (?rst  muslim 
 President).  Fourth  Session  -  held  at 
 Allahabad  in  1888,  President  -  George 
 Yule  (?rst  English  President).  1896 
 session  (Calcutta)  President  - 
 Rahimtullah  Sayani,  National  Song 
 ‘Vande  Mataram’  sung  for  the  ?rst  time 
 by Rabindranath Tagore. 
 Q.846.  Who  was  the  ?rst  Woman 
 President of Indian National Congress? 
 SSC MTS 08/09/2023 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) Sarojini Naidu  (b) Asaf Ali 
 (c) Annie Besant       (d) Usha Mehta 
 Sol.846.(c)  Annie  Besant  :  First  woman 
 who  presided  over  the  calcutta  session 
 (1917)  of  Indian  National  Congress. 
 Sarojini  Naidu  -  ?rst  Indian  women 
 president  of  Indian  national  congress 
 (1925,  Kanpur  session)  and  the  ?rst 
 woman  Governor  of  the  United  Provinces 
 in 1947. 
 Q.847.  Which  ?ag  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress was adopted in 1931? 
 SSC MTS 12/09/2023 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) A two colour ?ag with charkha made 
 by cloth 
 (b) A tricolour ?ag made by Khadi with a 
 Charkha symbol 
 (c) One colour ?ag with charkha symbol 
 (d) A blue colour ?ag made by cloth 
 Sol.847.(b)  Ad  -  Hoc  Flag  Committee  : 
 Formed  in  1947  under  Rajendra  Prasad. 
 Pingali  Venkayya  -  Designer  of  National 
 Flag  of  India  (1921).  National  ?ag  was 
 adopted  on  July  22,  1947.  Ratio  of  the 
 length  to  the  breadth  of  the  Indian  Flag  - 
 3:2.  National  ?ag  of  India  was  ?rst 
 hoisted  on  7th  August,  1906  in  Kolkata  at 
 the  Parsee  Bagan  Square  (Green  Park). 
 First  Indian  ?ag  was  hoisted  on  a  foreign 
 land  by  Madame  Bhikaji  Cama  (1907  - 
 Germany). 
 Q.848.  In  the  1939  Tripuri  Congress 
 Presidential  Election,  Pattabhi 
 Sitaramayya was defeated by: 
 SSC MTS 13/09/2023 (1st Shift) 
 (a) Mahatma Gandhi 
 (b) Rajendra Prasad 
 (c) Subhas Chandra Bose 
 (d) Jawaharlal Nehru 
 Sol.848.(c)  Subhas  Chandra  Bose  was 
 elected  President  of  the  Haripura 
 Congress  Session  in  1938.  He  resigned 
 as  congress  president  in  April  1939.  Dr. 
 Rajendra  Prasad  replaced  Subhas 
 Chandra  Bose  as  the  new  congress 
 president. 
 Q.849.  In  which  session  of  All  India 
 Congress  Committee  was  the  Quit  India 
 Resolution accepted? 
 SSC CHSL 03/08/2023 (4th shift) 
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 (a) Calcutta  (b) Delhi 
 (c) Madras  (d) Bombay 
 Sol.849.(d)  Bombay.  Quit  India 
 Movement  -  It  was  launched  at  the 
 Bombay  session  of  the  All  India 
 Congress  Committee  by  Mahatma 
 Gandhi  on  8  August  1942,  during  World 
 War  II,  demanding  an  end  to  British  rule 
 in  India.  Yusuf  Meher  Ali  coined  the 
 slogan ‘Quit India’. 
 Q.850.  In  which  session  of  the  Indian 
 National  Congress  was  the  resolution 
 declaring Poorna Swaraj passed? 
 SSC CHSL 07/08/2023 (1st shift) 
 (a) Calcutta  (b) Bombay 
 (c) Madras  (d) Lahore 
 Sol.850.(d)  Lahore  (1929).  Pandit 
 Jawahar  Lal  Nehru  presided  over  the 
 Lahore  session  of  congress  and  hoisted 
 the  tricolor  ?ag  of  India.  Congress 
 Session  and  President:  Lucknow  session 
 -  Ambica  Charan  Mazumdar  (1916), 
 Tripuri  -  Subhash  Chandra  Bose  (1939), 
 Gaya  -  Chittaranjan  Das  (1922),  Kanpur  - 
 Sarojini  Naidu  (1925),  Karachi  - 
 Vallabhbhai  Patel  (1931),  Ramgarh  - 
 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1940). 
 Q.851.  The  second  annual  session  of 
 Indian  National  Congress  was  held  at 
 which of the following places ? 
 SSC CHSL 11/08/2023 (2nd shift) 
 (a) Bombay  (b) Delhi 
 (c) Calcutta  (d) Madras 
 Sol.851.(c)  Calcutta  (1886,  Dada  Bhai 
 Naoroji)  .  Indian  National  Congress: 
 Founded  -  28  December  1885  in  Bombay 
 by  Alan  Octavian  Hume.  First  President  - 
 Womesh  Chandra  Banerjee.  Third 
 Session  (1887,  Madras)  -  Badruddin 
 Tyabji. 
 Q.852.  Who  was  the  president  of  the 
 second  session  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress? 
 SSC CGL 20/07/2023 (1st shift) 
 (a) Dadabhai Naoroji 
 (b) Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee 
 (c) Pherozeshah Mehta 
 (d) George Yule 
 Sol.852.(a)  Dadabhai  Naroji.  Indian 
 National  Congress:  The  Second  session  - 
 Calcutta  (1886),  The  ?rst  session  - 
 Bombay  (1885).  The  ?rst  president  - 
 Womesh  Chandra  Bonnerjee.  First 
 General Secretary - A.O Hume. 
 Q.853.  Self-Government  or  'Swaraj'  as 
 the  ultimate  goal  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress-this  declaration  was  made  by 
 Dadabhai Naoroji in which of the 
 following sessions of the INC ? 
 SSC CGL 20/07/2023 (4th shift) 
 (a) Bombay  (b) Calcutta 
 (c) Madras  (d) Bankipur 
 Sol.853.(b)  Calcutta.  Dadabhai  Naoroji 
 (Grand  Old  Man  of  India)  founded  the 
 Rahnumai  Mazdayasnan  Sabha  in  1851 
 to  revive  the  Zoroastrian  religion  and 
 formed  the  London  India  Society  in  1865. 
 He  Became  a  member  of  the  Legislative 
 Council  of  Mumbai  during  1885-88  and 
 President  of  the  Congress  Party  in  1886 
 (Calcutta),  1893  (Lahore)  and  1906 
 (Calcutta).  He  gave  the  theory  of  ‘drain  of 
 wealth’  in  his  book  “Poverty  and 
 Un-British Rule in India”. 
 Q.854.  When  did  the  All  India  Congress 
 formalize  the  demand  for  'Purna  Swaraj' 
 or full independence for India? 
 SSC CGL 21/07/2023 (3rd shift) 
 (a) At its Karachi Session in 1931 
 (b) At its Lahore Session in 1929 
 (c) At its Guwahati Session in 1926 
 (d) At its Madras Session in 1927 
 Sol.854.(b)  Lahore  Session  (1929)  - 
 Jawaharlal  Nehru  was  elected  as 
 President  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress  (1929).  The  Karachi  Session 
 (1931)  -  Chaired  by  Sardar  Vallabhbhai 
 Patel;  Resolution  on  Fundamental  Rights 
 and  the  National  Economic  Programme. 
 The  Guwahati  Session  (1926)  -  Presided 
 by  the  Srinivasa  Iyengar;  Resolution  to 
 promote  the  use  of  Khadi  (as  a  symbol  of 
 national  unity)  and  self-reliance.  The 
 Madras  Session  (1927)  -  Presided  by  Dr. 
 Ansari;  Resolution  for  the  boycott  of  the 
 Simon Commission. 
 Q.855.  Which  of  the  following 
 organisations was established in 1885 ? 
 SSC CGL 27/07/2023 (1st shift) 
 (a) Communist Party of India 
 (b) Muslim League 
 (c) East India Organization 
 (d) Indian National Congress 
 Sol.855.(d)  Indian  National  Congress. 
 The  Communist  Party  of  India  (M.N.  Roy, 
 Abani  Mukherji)  was  founded  in  Kanpur 
 on  26  December  1925.  The  All-India 
 Muslim  League  was  a  political  party 
 established  in  Dhaka  in  1906.  The  East 
 India  Association  was  founded  by 
 Dadabhai Naoroji in 1866. 
 Q.856.  Which  Session  of  Congress  and 
 Muslim  League  reached  an 
 understanding  of  creating  a  joint  front 
 against the British regime? 
 SSC CGL 27/07/2023 (3rd shift) 
 (a) Bombay  (b) Allahabad 
 (c) Lucknow  (d) Delhi 
 Sol.856.(c)  Lucknow  (1916)  -  President: 
 A.C.  Majumdar;  Lucknow  Pact  signed 
 between  Congress  (Bal  Gangadhar  Tilak) 
 and  Muslim  League  (Muhammad  Ali 
 Jinnah)  to  build  political  consensus; 
 Unity  between  two  factions  -  Moderates 
 and Extremists of Congress. 
 Q.857.  Which  among  the  following 
 sessions  of  Indian  National  Congress 
 was  the  ?rst  session  to  be  presided  by  a 
 lady ? 
 SSC MTS 02/05/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Calcutta - 1917    (b) Kanpur - 1925 
 (c) Lahore - 1929       (d) Surat - 1907 
 Sol.857.(a)  Calcutta  -  (Annie  Besant, 
 1917)  .  Sessions  of  Indian  National 
 Congress:  Kanpur  (1925)  -  Sarojini 
 Naidu  (First  Indian  woman  president), 
 Lahore  (1929)  -  President  (Jawaharlal 
 Nehru),  Objective  -  Resolution  for  ‘Poorna 
 Swaraj.’  Civil  Disobedience  movement  for 
 complete  independence  to  be  launched, 
 26  January  to  be  observed  as 
 ‘Independence  Day’.  Surat  1907  - 
 President (Rash Behari Ghosh). 
 Q.858.  In  _________  at  its  Madras  session, 
 the  Indian  National  Congress  set  up  an 
 All  Parties  Conference  to  draft  a 
 Constitution for India. 
 SSC MTS 03/05/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) 1922  (b) 1932    (c) 1927    (d) 1915 
 Sol.858.(c)  1927.  Indian  National 
 Congress  (INC)  session  1927  (Madras  ): 
 President  -  M  A  Ansari.  INC  session  1915 
 (Bombay):  President  -  Satyendra 
 Prasanna  Sinha.  Importance  - 
 Constitution  of  the  Congress  was  altered 
 to  admit  the  delegates  from  the 
 extremist  section.  INC  session  1922 
 (Gaya):  President  -  C  R  Das.  Importance  - 
 CR  Das  and  other  leaders  broke  away 
 from  INC,  Formation  of  Swaraj  Party.  INC 
 session  1932  (Delhi):  President  -  Amrit 
 Ranchhorddas Seth. 
 Q.859.  The  Indian  National  Congress 
 passed  Purna  Swaraj  resolution  in  1929 
 under the presidency of ___________ . 
 SSC MTS 09/05/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Mahatma Gandhi 
 (b) Lala Lajpat Rai 
 (c) Jawaharlal Nehru 
 (d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 
 Sol.859.(c)  Jawaharlal  Nehru.  The 
 Poorna  Swaraj  resolution  or  the 
 Declaration  of  Independence  was  passed 
 at  the  Lahore  session  of  Congress  in 
 December  1929.  A  public  declaration 
 was  made  on  26  January  1930.  The 
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 resolution  was  a  short  750-word 
 document. 
 Q.860.  The  split  in  Indian  National 
 Congress occurred in ________ . 
 SSC MTS 17/05/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) 1901   (b) 1905   (c) 1903   (d) 1907 
 Sol.860.(d)  1907.  The  Surat  Split  was 
 the  splitting  of  Indian  National  Congress 
 into  two  groups  -  Moderates  and 
 Radicals. 
 Q.861.  Badruddin  Tyabji  addressed  the 
 congress as president in ______ . 
 SSC MTS 13/06/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) 1887  (b) 1888   (c) 1885   (d) 1886 
 Sol.861.(a)  1887  (Madras  Session). 
 Badruddin  Tyabji  -  First  muslim  and  third 
 president  of  the  Indian  national  congress 
 (INC).  Important  sessions  of  Indian 
 national  congress  and  presidents:  1st 
 (1885,  Bombay  Session)  -  W.C.Banerjee. 
 4th  (Allahabad  Session,  1888)  -  George 
 Yule (?rst English). 
 Q.862.  The  Indian  National  Congress 
 was  established  when  72  delegates  from 
 all  over  the  country  met  at  Bombay  in 
 December _______. 
 SSC MTS 20/06/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) 1890   (b) 1858   (c) 1885   (d) 1872 
 Sol.862.(c)  1885.  Founder  :  Allan 
 Octavian  Hume.  First  President:  W.C. 
 Bannerjee.  First  meeting  -  Gokuldas 
 Tejpal  Sanskrit  College  (Bombay). 
 Prominent  delegates  included  Dadabhai 
 Naoroji,  Surendranath  Banerjee, 
 Badruddin  Tyabji,  Pherozeshah  Mehta,  W. 
 C.  Bonnerjee,  S.  Ramaswami  Mudaliar,  S. 
 Subramania Iyer, and Romesh Chunder 
 Dutt. 
 Q.863.  Who  among  the  following  was  the 
 President of the Indian National Congress 
 during the 1915 session? 
 SSC CGL Tier II  06/03/2023 
 (a) Satyendra Prasanna Sinha 
 (b) Ambica Charan Mazumdar 
 (c) Bhupendra Nath Bose 
 (d) Madan Mohan Malaviya 
 Sol.863.(a)  Satyendra  Prasanna  Sinha. 
 1885  -  Womesh  Chandra  Bonnerjee,  1886 
 -  Shri  Dadabhai  Naoroji,  1887  -  Badruddin 
 Tyabji,  1890  -  Pherozeshah  Mehta,  1892  - 
 Womesh  Chandra  Bonnerjee,  1895  - 
 Surendranath  Banerjee,  1905  -  Gopal 
 Krishna  Gokhale,  1906  -  Shri  Dadabhai 
 Naoroji,  1907  -  Rash  Behari  Ghosh,  1909  - 
 Madan  Mohan  Malaviya,  1916  -  Ambica 
 Charan  Mazumdar,  1917  -  Annie  Besant, 
 1919 - Motilal Nehru. 
 Q.864.  Sarojini  Naidu  was  elected  ?rst 
 Indian  woman  President  of  the  Indian 
 National Congress at _________. 
 SSC CGL 06/12/2022 (1st Shift) 
 (a) Kanpur  (b) Ahmedabad 
 (c) Delhi  (d) Nagpur 
 Sol.864.(a)  Kanpur.  Sarojini  Naidu 
 (Nightingale  of  India)  was  the  ?rst 
 woman  Governor  of  a  State  (Uttar 
 Pradesh)  in  free  India.  The  ?rst  woman 
 president  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress was Annie Besant in 1917. 
 Q.865.  How many delegates participated 
 in  the  second  session  of  Indian  National 
 Congress? 
 SSC CGL 07/12/2022 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) 434    (b) 628    (c) 212    (d) 190 
 Sol.865.(a)  434  ,  Held  (December  27-30, 
 1886,  Calcutta),  President  (Shri  Dadabhai 
 Naoroji),  Congress  decided  to  set  up 
 Provincial  Congress  Committees  across 
 the  country.  Father  of  Indian  National 
 Congress:  Allan  Octavian  Hume  (known 
 for his Safety valve theory). 
 Q.866.  In  1929,  Indian  National  Congress 
 demanded  complete  independence 
 under the presidentship of_____. 
 SSC MTS 22/07/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Dadabhai Naoroji 
 (b) Jawaharlal Nehru 
 (c) Mahatma Gandhi 
 (d) Chitta Ranjan Das 
 Sol.866.(b)  Jawaharlal  Nehru.  The  Indian 
 National  Congress,  on  19  December 
 1929,  passed  the  historic  'Purna  Swaraj' 
 –  (total  independence)  resolution  –  at  its 
 Lahore  session  under  the  presidentship 
 of  Jawahar  Lal  Nehru.  The  Indian 
 tricolour  ?ag  was  also  hoisted  by  him  on 
 the bank of the Ravi river. 
 Q.867.  In which of the following sessions 
 of  the  Indian  National  Congress  did 
 George  Yule  become  the  President  in 
 1888? 
 SSC CGL 12/04/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) Calcutta  (b) Allahabad 
 (c) Madras  (d) Bombay 
 Sol.867.(b)  Allahabad  .  On  28  December 
 1885,  the  Indian  National  Congress  was 
 founded  at  Gokuldas  Tejpal  Sanskrit 
 College in Bombay.  Founder  - A. O Hume. 
 Q.868.  In  which  of  the  following  years 
 did  the  resolution  at  the  Karachi  Session 
 of  the  Indian  National  Congress  dwell  on 
 how  Independent  India’s  Constitution 
 should look? 
 SSC CGL 13/04/2022 (Afternoon) 
 (a) 1931    (b) 1928    (c) 1946    (d) 1945 
 Sol.868.(a) 1931  . 
 In  1928,  Motilal  Nehru  and  other 
 Congress  leaders  drafted  a  constitution 
 for India. 
 Q.869.  Who  among  the  following  was 
 elected  as  the  President  of  the  Indian 
 National  Congress  in  the  year  1938  and 
 1939? 
 SSC MTS 07/10/2021 (Afternoon) 
 (a) Subhash Chandra Bose 
 (b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad 
 (c) C Rajagopalachari 
 (d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 
 Sol.869.(a) Subhash Chandra Bose  . 
 Q.870.  Who  among  the  following 
 presided  over  the  special  session  of 
 Congress  in  September  1923  and  at  the 
 age  of  35  became  the  youngest  man  to 
 be  elected  as  the  President  of  the 
 Congress? 
 SSC CHSL 06/08/2021 (Morning) 
 (a) Mahadev Govind Ranade 
 (b) Ram Manohar Lohia 
 (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak 
 (d) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 
 Sol.870.(d)  Maulana  Abul  Kalam  Azad  . 
 He  was  also  a  noted  writer,  poet  and 
 journalist.  He  was  a  prominent  political 
 leader  and  was  elected  as  Congress 
 President in 1923 and 1940. 
 Q.871.  Who  was  the  President  of  the 
 Indian  National  Congress  when  India 
 won its freedom in the  year 1947 ? 
 SSC CHSL 09/08/2021 (Evening) 
 (a) Abul Kalam Azad  (b) Vallabhbhai Patel 
 (c) Jawaharlal Nehru  (d) J. B. Kripalani 
 Sol.871.(d)  J.  B.  Kripalani  (Acharya 
 Kriplani)  was  the  president  of  the  Indian 
 National  Congress  during  the  transfer  of 
 power.  He  was  the  husband  of  Sucheta 
 Kripalani, who was the ?rst woman chief 
 minister (Uttar Pradesh). 
 Q.872.  The  National  Anthem  of  India, 
 ‘Jana  Gana  Mana’  was  ?rst  sung  at  the 
 ______  Session  of  the  Indian  National 
 Congress. 
 SSC CPO 24/11/2020 (Morning) 
 (a) Calcutta  (b) Lahore 
 (c) Belgaum  (d) Tripuri 
 Sol.872.(a)  Calcutta  in  1911  Session  of 
 the  Indian  National  Congress  on  27 
 December  .  The  national  anthem  was 
 written  by  RabindraNath  Tagore.This 
 session  was  headed  by  Bishan  Narayan 
 Dhar. 
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 Muslim league 
 Q.873.  In  which  of  the  following  years 
 was the Muslim League formed? 
 SSC CPO 03/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) 1909   (b) 1906   (c) 1912   (d) 1915 
 Sol.873.(b)  1906.  Muslim  League  :-  It 
 was  a  political  party  established  in 
 Dhaka,  Bangladesh  (30  December  1906) 
 when  some  well-known  Muslim 
 politicians  met  the  Viceroy  of  British 
 India  (Lord  Minto).  The  party  demanded 
 a  separate  Muslim  state  (Pakistan)  in 
 1940.  Founder  -  Nawab  Khwaja 
 Salimullah.  Muhammad  Ali  Jinnah 
 joined  the  muslim  League  in  1913,  he 
 called  for  ‘Direct  Action  Day’  on  16th 
 August 1946. 
 Q.874.  The  Lucknow  Pact  was  signed  in 
 ____________ by Congress and the Muslim 
 League  to  work  in  alliance  for 
 representative government. 
 SSC CPO 04/10/2023 (Afternoon) 
 (a) 1916   (b) 1918   (c) 1920   (d) 1914 
 Sol.874.(a)  1916.  INC  session  Lucknow 
 (1916)  -  President:  A.C.  Majumdar. 
 Lucknow  Pact  was  signed  between 
 Congress  (Bal  Gangadhar  Tilak)  and 
 Muslim  League  (Muhammad  Ali  Jinnah) 
 to build political consensus. 
 Q.875.  In  which  of  the  following  years 
 was Muslim League founded ? 
 SSC CHSL 08/08/2023 (3rd shift) 
 (a) 1907   (b) 1905   (c) 1909   (d) 1906 
 Sol.875.(d)  1906.  All  India  Muslim 
 League  (AIML):  India's  ?rst  Muslim 
 political  party.  Founded  at  Dacca 
 (Bangladesh).  Founders  -  Khwaja 
 Salimullah,  Vikar-ul-Mulk,  Syed  Amir  Ali, 
 Syed  Nabiullah,  Khan  Bahadur  Ghulam, 
 Mustafa Chowdhury. 
 Q.876.  In  __________  the  Muslim  League 
 had  moved  a  resolution  demanding 
 “Independent  States”  for  Muslims  in  the 
 north  -  western  and  eastern  areas  of  the 
 country 
 SSC CHSL 20/03/2023 (4th Shift) 
 (a) 1940  (b) 1942  (c) 1946   (d) 1935 
 Sol.876.(a)  1940.  All-India  Muslim 
 League  established  in  Dhaka  in  1906. 
 Founder:  Nawab  Khwaja  Salimullah.  First 
 Honorary  President:  Aga  Khan  III. 
 Headquarters:  Lucknow.  1st  Session: 
 Karachi (1907). 
 Q.877.  Muslim  League  observed  ______ 
 as ‘Direct Action Day’. 
 SSC MTS 18/07/2022 (Evening) 
 (a) 16 August 1946    (b) 12 August 1946 
 (c) 10 August 1946    (d) 14 August 1946 
 Sol.877.(a)  16  August  1946  . 
 Muhammad  Ali  Jinnah  declared  16 
 August  as  'Direct  Action  Day'  and  called 
 for  Muslims  all  over  the  country  to 
 'suspend  all  business'.  Direct  Action  Day, 
 also known as the 1946 Calcutta Killings. 
 Miscellaneous 
 Q.878.  Who  designed  India  Gate,  also 
 called the All-India War Memorial? 
 SSC Stenographer 12/10/2023 (Morning) 
 (a) Charles Corey  (b) John Tailor 
 (c) Fredrik Forsyth (d) Edwin Lutyens 
 Sol.878.(d)  Edwin  Lutyens  (an  English 
 architect).  Other  buildings  designed  by 
 him:  Rashtrapati  Bhavan,  India  Gate,  The 
 Cenotaph  Whitehall  (London).  The  Old 
 Parliament  of  India  was  also  designed  by 
 Herbert  Baker  and  Lutyens.  The 
 foundation  stone  of  India  Gate  was  laid 
 by  His  Royal  Highness,  the  Duke  of 
 Connaught in 1921. 
 Q.879.  Who  was/were  the  founder(s)  of 
 the Theosophical Society? 
 SSC CPO 05/10/2023 (Evening) 
 (a) Annie Besant 
 (b) Madam Bhikaji Cama 
 (c) Charles W Leadbeater and Emily 
 Lutyens 
 (d) H P Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott 
 Sol.879.(d)  H  P  Blavatsky  and  Colonel 
 Olcott.  The  Theosophical  Society  was 
 founded  in  1875  (New  York),  to 
 propagate  theosophy.  In  1882,  the 
 headquarters  of  the  Society  were 
 established  in  Adyar,  near  Madras  (now 
 Chennai)  .  In  1889,  Annie  Besant  joined 
 the Theosophical Society. 
 Q.880.  Who  was  the  political  guru  of 
 Subhash Chandra Bose? 
 SSC MTS 05/09/2023 (2nd Shift) 
 (a) M.G. Ranade 
 (b) Mahatma Gandhi 
 (c) Jawaharlal Nehru 
 (d) Chittaranjan Das 
 Sol.880.(d)  Chittaranjan  Das 
 (Deshbandhu)  .  He  was  the  founding 
 member  of  Swaraj  Party  (1923).  Gopal 
 Krishan  Gokahlae  was  the  Political  Guru 
 of Mahatma Gandhi. 
 Q.881.  The  name  of  the  Brahmin  priest 
 who  later  came  to  be  known  as 
 Ramakrishna Paramahansa is: 
 SSC CHSL 03/08/2023 (1st shift) 
 (a) Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya 
 (b) Dayanand Saraswati 
 (c) Shree Narayana Guru 
 (d) Narendra Nath Datta 
 Sol.881.(a)  Gadadhar  Chattopadhyay: 
 Ramakrishna  mission  :-  Founded  by 
 Swami  Vivekananda  (Narendra  Nath 
 Datta)  on  May  1,  1897  at  Belur  Math 
 (West Bengal). 
 Q.882.  Who  is  referred  to  as  'Frontier 
 Gandhi’? 
 SSC CHSL 10/08/2023 (1st shift) 
 (a) Rajendra Prasad 
 (b) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 
 (c) Ashfaqullah Khan 
 (d) Rajkumar Shukla 
 Sol.882.(b)  Khan  Abdul  Ghaffar  Khan 
 (also  known  as  Bachcha  Khan,  Badshah 
 Khan,  or  Sarhadi  Gandhi).  He  founded  the 
 Red  Shirt  movement  or  “Khudai 
 Khitmatgar”in  1930.  It  was  a  non-violent 
 protest  against  the  Britishers.  Leaders 
 and  Nickname:  Rajendra  Prasad  (Desh 
 Ratna),  Ashfaqulla  Khan  (Hasrat),  Madan 
 Mohan  Malaviya  (Mahamana),  Gopal 
 Hari  Deshmukh  (Lokhitawadi), 
 Chittaranjan  Das  (Deshbandhu), 
 Dadabhai  Naoroji  (Grand  old  man  of 
 India). 
 Q.883.  Who  among  the  following  was  the 
 ?rst  person  to  discuss  the  poverty  line  in 
 pre-independence India? 
 SSC CGL 14/07/2023 (4th shift) 
 (a) Dadabhai Naoroji 
 (b) Mahalanobis 
 (c) Dr. BR Ambedkar 
 (d) RK Shanmukham Chetty 
 Sol.883.(a)  Dadabhai  Naoroji.  RK 
 Shanmukham  Chetty  -  Finance  Minister 
 of  India  when  the  country's  ?rst  budget 
 was  tabled  in  Parliament  on  26 
 November  1947.  Dr.  BR  Ambedkar  - 
 Father of Indian Constitution. 
 Q.884.  When  did  the  Drafting  Committee 
 publish  the  ?rst  draft  of  the  Indian 
 Constitution? 
 SSC CGL 17/07/2023 (1st shift) 
 (a) June 1948  (b) May 1948 
 (c) January 1948  (d) February 1948 
 Sol.884.(d)  February  1948.  Drafting 
 committee  :  Formed  -  29  August  1947, 
 Chairman  -  Dr.  BR  Ambedkar  Total 
 member  -  7.  Indian  Constitution  : 
 Adopted  on  -  26  november  1949,  Came 
 into  force  on  -  26  January  1950.  It  took  2 
 years,  11  months,  18  days  to  prepare  the 
 Indian Constitution. 
 Q.885.  Moplahs,  or  Muslim  peasants, 
 created  a  powerful  anti-zamindar 
 movement in: 
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