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Answer:[C] Operation Thunderbolt Explanation: The Quit India Movement , or the August Movement (August Kranti) was a civil disobedience movement launched in India in August 1942 in response to Mohandas Gandhi’s call for immediate independence.
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Answer: [C] Dandi March Explanation: Dandi March(12th March 1930) also known as the Salt Satyagraha, was undertaken by Gandhiji . He led the Dandi march from his base, Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad, to the sea coast near the village of Dandi. The triggering factor for this movement was the British monopoly of salt trade in India and the imposition of a salt tax. It was a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly in colonial India, and triggered the wider Civil Disobedience Movement. “On bended knees I asked for bread and I have received stone instead”, was a remark made by Gandhi ji in the beginning of the march.
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Answer: [B] Kulin Kulasarvasva Explanation: It was Kulin Kulasarvasva(“All about a Kulin Clan”) by Pandit Ramnarayan Tarkaratnan. A social satire against the practice of polygamy. It was the first social drama in a regional language(Bengali) attacking Brahmin polygamy, was presented by an aristocratic family in 1857.
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Answer: [B]San Francisco Explanation: To mark the centenary of the Gadar movement, the Indian Government is planning to fund the conversion of the Gadar Memorial in San Francisco into a museum and library. The Hindustan Gadar Party, when founded in 1913, begun its operation from 436 Hill Street of the northern Californian city. It came to be known as ‘Yugantar Ashram’ and it was from here that the freedom fighters were active from 1913 to 1917. From this place they published a weekly magazine called Gadar to propagate the cause of Indian independence.
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Answer:[A] Eighteen Fifty Seven Explanation: Eighteen Fifty Seven was written by well known Indian Historian Dr.Surendra Nath Sen ,with a foreward by Abdul Kalam Azad. Published on May 1957 by the publication division ,Ministry of Information and broadcasting ,Government of India.
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Answer:[C] Lala Lajpat Rai Explanation: Special Calcutta Session, 1920, in which Mahatma Gandhi moved the Non cooperation resolution was presided by Lala Lajpat Rai and it was supported by others. Non cooperation movement was launched for two major issues : 1. The British Government’s attitude towards the Khilafat Movement . 2. Its’ failure to protect the innocent people of the Punjab and punish the officers guilty of barbarous behavious towards them. |
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Answer: [C] Jyotiba Phule Explanation: Jyotirao Govindrao Phule (Mahatma) was born in Pune,was a great social reformer. He dedicated his book Gulamgiri to the American movement to free slaves, he linked the conditions of the black slaves in America with those of the lower castes in India. This comparison contains an expression of hope that one day, like the end of slavery in America, there would be an end to all sorts of caste discriminations in Indian society.
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Answer: [D] Madan Lal Dhingra Explanation: Madan Lal Dhingra (1887–1909) was born in the holy city of Amritsar, He was an Indian political activist studying in England and there he came in contact with the Indian revolutionaty leaders like Shyamji Krishna Verma and Veer Damodar Savarkar.He was perhaps the first Indian freedom fighter to be executed on British soil. He assassinated Sir Curzan Wyllie, political Aide-de-Camp to the Secretary of State for India, Lord Morley in London in 1909. He was hanged at Pentonville Prison, London, on 17 August, 1909.
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Answer: [C] Barinder Kumar Ghosh Explanation: Barinder Kumar Ghosh was born at Norwood near London on 5th January in 1880.He was a younger brother of Aurobindo Ghosh.
In 1906, to spread the revolutionary ideas and to provide fervor to Swadeshi movement ,he started a Bengali weekly-“the jugantar”.
In 1907, he started the Maniktala group with Bagha Jatin and a few young revolutionary activists for the collection of arms and ammunitions and manufacturing explosives.He was sentenced to death by the trial known as Alipore Bomb Case. Later the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and was sent to the Cellular Jail in Andaman in 1909. In 1920, Barindra Kumar Ghose was released.
In 1933 Barindra Kumar Ghose launched English weekly, The Dawn of India. He was also associated with The Statesman newspaper and earned the title as a columnist. In 1950, he became the editor of the Bengali daily Dainik Basumati.
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Answer: [B] Adviser to the Secretary of State of India Explanation: Madan Lal Dhingra was a great revolutionary from Punjab,associated with the Indian Home Rule Society, The Abhinav Bharat Society and the Indian House in London. On July 1, 1909 he shot dead Curzon Wyllie an adviser to the secretary of state of India, and Cowas Lolcaca at the meeting of the Indian National Association in London to avenge the atrocities committed by the British in India.
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