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UPSC CDS Indian History Timeline — practice questions — page 25

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Which early Congress leader wrote Poverty and Un-British Rule in India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Radical leader declared that freedom is my birthright and I shall have it?Read the answer and worked solution →Bengal was partitioned in 1905 by Viceroy:Read the answer and worked solution →In deltaic Andhra the Swadeshi movement was known as the:Read the answer and worked solution →The All India Muslim League was formed in 1906 at:Read the answer and worked solution →Separate electorates for Muslims were conceded by the government in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Congress split between Moderates and Radicals in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Congress and the Muslim League signed the Lucknow Pact in:Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi established the Natal Congress in South Africa to fight racial discrimination in:Read the answer and worked solution →Who renounced his knighthood after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?Read the answer and worked solution →Bhagat Singh, Azad and Rajguru assassinated police officer Saunders on:Read the answer and worked solution →Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were executed on:Read the answer and worked solution →Who persuaded Gandhi to allow women to join the Salt Satyagraha?Read the answer and worked solution →After the 1937 elections the Congress formed governments in how many of the 11 provinces?Read the answer and worked solution →By the end of 1943, how many people had been arrested in the Quit India movement?Read the answer and worked solution →Subhas Chandra Bose secretly left his Calcutta home to raise the Azad Hind Fauj in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Muslim League's Direct Action Day, which set off riots in Calcutta, was:Read the answer and worked solution →The first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence, in 1957, was:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the early Congress leadersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the RadicalsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the national movement datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the movement wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Moderate or RadicalRead the answer and worked solution →Sort by decadeRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →National movement bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Delhi first became the capital of a kingdom under which Rajput dynasty?Read the answer and worked solution →Coins minted at Delhi under the Tomaras and Chauhans were called:Read the answer and worked solution →Raziyya, daughter of Iltutmish, became Sultan in:Read the answer and worked solution →Which chronicler thought Raziyya more able than her brothers yet was uncomfortable with a queen?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which early Congress leader wrote Poverty and Un-British Rule in India?

  1. W C Bonnerji
  2. Pherozeshah Mehta
  3. Dadabhai Naoroji
  4. Badruddin Tyabji
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Correct answer: C. Dadabhai Naoroji

1. He was for a time a member of the British Parliament. 2. Naoroji wrote the scathing economic critique. 3. Tyabji presided over the Congress in 1887. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 9, The Making of the National Movement 1870s-1947._

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Which Radical leader declared that freedom is my birthright and I shall have it?

  1. Bepin Chandra Pal
  2. Lala Lajpat Rai
  3. Dadabhai Naoroji
  4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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Correct answer: D. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

1. Radicals mocked the Moderates' politics of prayers. 2. Tilak raised the slogan. 3. His paper was the Kesari. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 9, The Making of the National Movement 1870s-1947._

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Bengal was partitioned in 1905 by Viceroy:

  1. Curzon
  2. Minto
  3. Elgin
  4. Ripon
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Correct answer: A. Curzon

1. East Bengal was merged with Assam. 2. Curzon ordered the partition. 3. It set off the Swadeshi movement. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 9, The Making of the National Movement 1870s-1947._

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