Short Question and Answers

1. Who led the Bardoli Satyagarha?
   Vithalbhai Patel
2. When did Gandhiji started his Salt March?
   12 March 1930
3. When did Civil Disobedience movement started?
   6 April, 1930
4. Who was the hero of Vaikom Satyagraha?
   K Kelappan
5. Under whose leadership, Koya tribals fought the colonial govt to protect their forest rights during 1922-24?
   Ramachandra Raju
6. What was popular name of Khudai Khidmatgars?
   Red shirts
7. Gandhiji marched from Sabarmati to Dandi with how many followers?
   78
8. Which American journalist reported during the salt satyagraha?
   Webb Miller
9. You planned a fine strategy around the issue of salt: Who said this to Gandhiji?
   Lord Irwin
10. Who was the first president of AITUC?
    Lajpat Rai
11. Who started Dina Bandhu?
    N.M Lokhande
12. Who founded the Working Men’s Club?
    Sasipada Banerjee
13. When was the first strike organized by Indian working class?
    1899
14. When was first Factories Act enacted?
    1881
15. When was Bombay Mill and Millhand’s Association set up?
    1890
16. Which was the first newspaper dedicated to the cause of workers in India?
    Bharat Shramjeevi
17. When was the no tax campaign launched in Bardoli?
    1928
18. Which was the Mopla rebellion epicentre?
    Malabar
19. Who led the Eka movement?
    Madan Pasi
20. When was Oudh Rent Act legislated?
    1921
21. Mangal Pandey was soldier in which army unit?
    Barrackpore
22. Who was the de facto leader of revolt of 1857 at Lucknow?
    Maulavi Ahmadullah
23. Who was the de jure head of the revolt of 1857 at Lucknow?
    Birzis Qadr
24. Where were British forces defeated at Battle for Audh?
    Chinhat
25. Who led the revolt against British in Rohilakhand?
    Khan Bahadur
26. When did British government announced special order of knighthood to Indian princes?
    1861
27. The army stationed in which province remained loyal to British masters?
    Madras
28. When was Awadh annexed by British?
    1856
29. When was Nagpur annexed by British?
    1854
30. Which governor general annexed Awadh?
    Lord Dalhousie
31. When was Indigo revolt happened?
    1859-60
32. When did East India Company set up first Indigo plantation?
    1770
33. Who wrote the play Nil Darpan?
    Dinabandhu Mitra
34. Which newspaper gave an extensive coverage to indigo riots and written extensively on the plight of indigo cultivators?
    The Bengali
35. When did British government set up an official inquiry to investigate the causes behind indigo riots?
    1860
36. When was Pabna peasant revolt occurs?
    1873-85
37. When did Pabna peasants form an agrarian league?
    1873
38. Which newspaper criticized the formation of Pabna Agrarian League?
    Amrit Bazar Patrika
39. When did Deccan riots occur?
    1875
40. Which organization took up the cause of Deccan peasants?
    Poona Sarvajanik Sabha
41. Which peasant revolt was painted by the colonial government as communal?
    Moplah
42. When did the Deccan Agriculturists Relief Act was passed?
    1879
43. Where did Kuka revolt occur?
    Punjab
44. Who led the Kuka revolt?
    Baba Ram Singh
45. Who held this view : Sati is a murder according to every Shastra?
    Ram Mohan Roy
46. Who made this call: Only one god and one caste for mankind ?
    Narayan Guru
47. Who organized Nav Bidhan?
    Kesab Chandra Sen
48. Who campaigned for widow remarriage?
    Vidyasagar
49. Who set up Tattvabodini Sabha?
    Debendranath Tagore
50. Lex Loci Act was legislated in which year?
    1850
51. Who is revered as Grand Old Man of India?
    D.B Naoroji
52. Who published the newspaper The Bengali?
    S.N Banerjee
53. Who developed the theory of Drain of Wealth?
    Dadabhai Naoroji
54. Who had equated expenditure on railway as decorating anothers wife?
    Tilak
55. By the provisions of the Government of India Act how many Indians were nominated in the Governor-General’s Council?
    Three
56. In which British India province a Legislative Council was first established?
    Bengal
57. Who first made the demand of Swaraj ?
    Naoroji
58. When was the Police Act enacted?
    1861
59. Who did Gandhiji considered his political guru?
    B.G Tilak
60. Which nationalist leader became famous for his budget speeches in Bombay Legislative Council with and without the premises?
    G.K .Gokhale
61. Who made this statement : Bengal united is power,Bengal divided ,will pull several different ways?
    Risley,Home Secretary
62. In which year Lord Curzon reduced the number of elected members in the Calcutta Corporation?
    1902
63. When was the Universities Act passed?
    1904
64. Who put forward the Boycott suggestion in the backdrop of partition of Bengal?
    Aurobindo Ghosh
65. Who described the Swadeshi and boycott movement as a method of passive resistance?
    B.C Pal
66. Who described resistance to British as a refusal to render any voluntary or honorary service to the Government?
    Bipin Chandra Pal
67. When was Bengal Tenancy Act was passed?
    1885
68. When was Muslim League established?
    Oct 1906
69. Muslim League was established under whose leadership?
    Nawab Salimullah
70. In the first decade of the 20th century which district was at the epicentre of communal riots in the East Bengal?
    Barisaal
71. Where was the Annual Congress in 1907 held?
    Surat
72. Who gave the call for Arandhan during Swadeshi and boycott movement?
    Aswini Kumar Dutt
73. Gandhi-Irwin pact was accepted by the Congress in 1931 at which place?
    Karachi
74. In which annual session Congress made its memorable resolution on Fundamental Rights?
    Karachi
75. Who replaced Irwin as viceroy of India?
    Lord Willingdon