UPSC CSE Freedom Struggle — practice questions
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Practice UPSC CSE Freedom Struggle in the app →Gandhi returned to India in January 1915 after two decades abroad. Where had he mostly lived?Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpat Rai were together known as:Who was Gandhi's acknowledged political mentor among the Moderates?Gandhi's first major public appearance in India was at the opening of which institution in February 1916?At the December 1916 Congress session in Lucknow a peasant asked Gandhi to help indigo cultivators of which diIn 1918 Gandhi joined peasants seeking remission of taxes after a failed harvest in which Gujarat district?The tough wartime measures continued in 1919 on the advice of a committee chaired by whom?More than four hundred people were killed at Jallianwala Bagh in which month and year?The Khilafat Movement of 1919-1920 was led by which brothers?Gandhi promised that effective non-cooperation would bring swaraj within what time?Peasants torched a police station at Chauri Chaura in February 1922. What did Gandhi do?Which judge sentenced Gandhi to six years in 1922 while calling him a great patriot?The Congress declared Purna Swaraj and elected Nehru president at its 1929 session in which city?Gandhi began the Salt March from Sabarmati ashram on which date?About how many Indians were arrested in the wake of the Salt March?Which socialist activist persuaded Gandhi to let women join the salt protests?By the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of 1931, what was allowed along the coast?At the Second Round Table Conference, who argued that Gandhi did not represent the lowest castes?After the 1937 elections, how many of the 11 provinces had a Congress prime minister?The Muslim League demanded autonomy for Muslim-majority areas in a resolution of which month and year?The Quit India campaign began in which month and year?Jinnah's Direct Action Day led to riots in Calcutta on which date?Scholarly estimates of deaths during Partition range between which figures?About how many people had to move across the new India-Pakistan frontiers?Separate electorates for Muslims were created by the colonial government in which year?In which pact of December 1916 did the Congress accept separate electorates?The Arya Samaj effort to bring recent converts back to the Hindu fold was called:In the 1937 provincial elections, what share of the population could vote?In 1937 the Muslim League polled what share of the total Muslim vote?The Muslim League was first floated in which city in 1906?The Hindu Mahasabha was founded in which year?Who coined the name Pakistan in pamphlets of 1933 and 1935?The Muslim League passed its resolution on autonomy for Muslim-majority areas on which date?Which Punjab Premier and Unionist leader drafted the 1940 resolution yet opposed a Muslim Raj in Punjab?Which Urdu poet spoke in 1930 of a North-West Indian Muslim state within a loose India?In the 1946 elections the League won how many of the 30 Muslim seats at the Centre?The Cabinet Mission of March 1946 recommended what kind of structure for India?After the Cabinet Mission failed, who besides Gandhi continued to firmly oppose Partition?The League declared which date as Direct Action Day in 1946?In March 1947 the Congress high command voted to divide which province into two halves?Which administrator in Bahawalpur noted that police fired no shot during the Amritsar killings of March 1947?Gandhi toured villages on foot in October 1946 to protect Hindus in which area of East Bengal?About how many abducted women were recovered by the two governments in an operation ending in 1954?In which village of Rawalpindi district did ninety Sikh women jump into a well during Partition?Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in:Gandhi's 1917 satyagraha in Champaran, Bihar, was to inspire which group against the plantation system?In 1918 Gandhi organised a satyagraha among cotton mill workers in:The Rowlatt Act of 1919 allowed detention of political prisoners without trial for:The Jallianwalla Bagh massacre under General Dyer took place on:The Khilafat Committee was formed in Bombay in:The Non-Cooperation programme was adopted at the Congress session at Nagpur in:In Madras, which party contested the council elections that others boycotted during Non-Cooperation?Between 1921 and 1922 the import of foreign cloth fell from Rs 102 crore to:The Awadh peasant movement was led by which sanyasi who had been an indentured labourer in Fiji?The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928 against enhanced land revenue was led by:Alluri Sitaram Raju led a guerrilla movement in the Gudem Hills of:Under which Act of 1859 could Assam plantation workers not leave the tea gardens without permission?Gandhi withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement in February 1922 after violence at:The Simon Commission arrived in India in which year?The Lahore Congress of December 1929 that demanded Purna Swaraj was presided over by:Which date in 1930 was declared to be celebrated as Independence Day?How many trusted volunteers accompanied Gandhi on the salt march?Gandhi reached Dandi and broke the salt law on:The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on:The Poona Pact between Gandhi and Ambedkar was signed in:The Hindustan Socialist Republican Army was founded in 1928 at a meeting in:The Indian National Congress was founded when 72 delegates met in December 1885 at:Which retired British official helped bring Indians together to form the Congress?The Arms Act disallowing Indians from possessing arms was passed in:The 1883 bill allowing Indian judges to try Europeans, withdrawn after white protest, was the:Which early Congress leader wrote Poverty and Un-British Rule in India?Which Radical leader declared that freedom is my birthright and I shall have it?Bengal was partitioned in 1905 by Viceroy:In deltaic Andhra the Swadeshi movement was known as the:The All India Muslim League was formed in 1906 at:Separate electorates for Muslims were conceded by the government in:The Congress split between Moderates and Radicals in:The Congress and the Muslim League signed the Lucknow Pact in:Gandhi established the Natal Congress in South Africa to fight racial discrimination in:Who renounced his knighthood after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?Bhagat Singh, Azad and Rajguru assassinated police officer Saunders on:Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were executed on:Who persuaded Gandhi to allow women to join the Salt Satyagraha?After the 1937 elections the Congress formed governments in how many of the 11 provinces?By the end of 1943, how many people had been arrested in the Quit India movement?Subhas Chandra Bose secretly left his Calcutta home to raise the Azad Hind Fauj in:The Muslim League's Direct Action Day, which set off riots in Calcutta, was:The first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence, in 1957, was: