1. The Swaraj Party was founded by ?

Bhimrao Ambedkar and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Sukhdev and Rajguru

Aruna Asaf and Subhash Chandra Bose

Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das

Answer: Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das

Explanation:

The Swaraj Party was established in 1923 by Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das in order to provide political freedom to the people of India from British colonialism and sought greater self-government.


2. Which of the following movements was started in the year 1930 by Mahatma Gandhi ?

Non-Cooperation Movement

Civil Disobedience Movement

Khilafat Movement

Quit India Movement

Answer: Civil Disobedience Movement

Explanation:

In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi began the Civil Disobedience Movement to the sea in protest of the imposing of tax on salt by the British.


3. In which year was the Chicago (USA) Conference of World Religions held that included Swami Vivekananda's talk on religion as one of its highlights ?

1889

1882

1893

1978

Answer: 1893

Explanation:

Swami Vivekanand in 1893 gave the speech in chicago. He said that ‘I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true”.


4. The birth place of Subhash Chandra Bose is ?

Cuttack

Hazaribagh

Patna

Kolkata

Answer: Cuttack

Explanation:

Subhash Chandra Bose was born on 23 January 1897 in Cuttack in Odisha.


5. _____ renounced his knighthood in protest for Jalianwalla Bagh mass killing. ?

Surendranath Banerjee

Rabindranath Tagore

Shivajirao Holkar

Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy

Answer: Rabindranath Tagore

Explanation:

Rabindra nath Tagore renounced his title knighthood after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The knighthood title was given by british. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on April 13,1919.


6. Who led the Civil Disobedience Movement in India ?

William Webberburn

Mahatma Gandhi

Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Chelmsford

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

Explanation:

On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi began a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India.


7. Who returned his Knighthood title after the Jallianwala Massacre ?

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Rabindranath Tagore

Mahatma Gandhi

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Answer: Rabindarnath Tagore

Explanation:

Rabindranath Tagore received the news of the massacre by 22 May 1919. He tried to arrange a protest meeting in Calcutta and finally decided to renounce his British knighthood as "a symbolic act of protest".


8. Mahatma Gandhi had violated the ‘Salt Law’ in which coastal city ?

Ahmedabad

Dandi

Sabarmati

Surat

Answer: Dandi

Explanation:

It was the start of the civil disobedience movement which commenced as Mahatma Gandhi broke the salt law on the coastal town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea on April 5. Dandi March is also known as Namak Satyagrah or Salt Satyagraha.


9. In which of the following peasant uprisings, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel took part ?

Eka Movement

Tebhaga Movement

Kisan Sabha

Bardoli Satyagraha

Answer: Bardoli Satyagraha

Explanation:

The Bardoli Satyagraha, 1928 was a movement in the independence struggle led by Sardar Vallabhai Patel for the farmers of Bardoli against the unjust raising of taxes.In January 1928, farmers in Bardoli invited Vallabhai Patel to launch the protest movement wherein all of them resolved not to pay taxes.


10. When did the Non-Cooperation Movement end ?

1930

1925

1922

1920

Answer: 1922

Explanation:

The Non-cooperation movement was withdrawn because of the Chauri Chaura incident. Although he had stopped the national revolt single-handedly, on 10 March 1922, Gandhi was arrested. On 18 March 1922, he was imprisoned for six years for publishing seditious materials.