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In which year was the Indian National Congress founded?Read the answer and worked solution →Whose suggestion inspired the founding of the Indian National Congress?Read the answer and worked solution →Who founded the Indian National Association in 1876?Read the answer and worked solution →The East India Association of 1866 was the creation of which leader?Read the answer and worked solution →In its early years, the Congress functioned mainly as what?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was the first Indian nationalist to embrace Swaraj as the destiny of the nation?Read the answer and worked solution →Which leader declared that Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it?Read the answer and worked solution →Which provinces shaped demand under Tilak, Pal and Rai?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair led the moderates in the Congress split of 1907?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was Mahatma Gandhi's political mentor, a veteran Congress leader?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Viceroy ordered the partition of Bengal in July 1905?Read the answer and worked solution →The swadeshi call after 1905 urged people to use what?Read the answer and worked solution →The Alipore bomb case followed an attempt on a British judge in which town?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was the Ghadar Party formed overseas?Read the answer and worked solution →Who assassinated William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a case that drew wide publicity?Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →The word satyagraha combines satya, meaning truth, with agraha, meaning what?Read the answer and worked solution →The Rowlatt Act extended wartime powers such as what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which officer ordered troops to fire at Jallianwala Bagh?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did the Jallianwala Bagh massacre take place?Read the answer and worked solution →The official British commission counted how many killed at Jallianwala Bagh?Read the answer and worked solution →The first Non-Cooperation Movement under Gandhi ran during which years?Read the answer and worked solution →Which step was part of the Non-Cooperation programme?Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi called off Non-Cooperation after which incident?Read the answer and worked solution →How many policemen died at Chauri Chaura?Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi was sentenced in 1922 to six years. How long did he serve?Read the answer and worked solution →In which city is the Sabarmati Ashram that Gandhi set up?Read the answer and worked solution →After 1920, anyone could join the Congress on payment of what?Read the answer and worked solution →The Khilafat Movement was a protest over British policy towards which empire?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Khilafat leader worked with his brother Maulana Shaukat Ali?Read the answer and worked solution →

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In which year was the Indian National Congress founded?

  1. 1857
  2. 1875
  3. 1885
  4. 1905
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Correct answer: C. 1885

1. Seventy-two Indian delegates met in Bombay to found the party. 2. This happened in 1885, nearly three decades after the Rebellion of 1857. 3. 1875 is the year of the Aligarh college and 1905 the Partition of Bengal. _Source: Wikipedia, Indian independence movement, Rise of organised movements_

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Whose suggestion inspired the founding of the Indian National Congress?

  1. Lord Dufferin
  2. A.O. Hume
  3. Lord Curzon
  4. G.K. Gokhale
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Correct answer: B. A.O. Hume

1. The Congress was founded after a suggestion from a retired Scottish civil servant. 2. That person was A.O. Hume. 3. Naoroji and Banerjee were Indian leaders who built other associations; Curzon was a Viceroy. _Source: Wikipedia, Indian independence movement, Rise of organised movements_

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Who founded the Indian National Association in 1876?

  1. Dadabhai Naoroji
  2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  4. Surendranath Banerjee
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Correct answer: D. Surendranath Banerjee

1. Several associations preceded the Congress. 2. The Indian National Association of 1876 was founded by Surendranath Banerjee. 3. Dadabhai Naoroji formed the East India Association in 1866, not this body. _Source: Wikipedia, Indian independence movement, Rise of organised movements_

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