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51. After the pact between Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin in March 1931 many leaders became critical of Mahathma Gandhi’s leadership. What was the main reason: 
Civil disobedience movement was called off 


52. Who is quoted as having said: “It is far better to live like a Tiger for a day than to live like a jackal for a hundred years”: 
Tipu Sultan 

53. When was Mahatma Gandhi arrested during the “Quit India Movement” of 1942: 
9th August 1942 

54. Where did Gandhiji deliver his first public speech after returning from South Africa: 
At Benarus Hindu University 

55. Where did Gandhiji launch his civil disobedience movement in South Africa: 
Johannesburg 

56. Where was the Satyagraha Ashram established on Gandhiji’s return to India: 
Kochrab 

57. “God is of no use to the hungry belly’- Whose words are these: 
Ram Krishna Paramhansa 

58. Name the Indian who passed away at Bristol in England in 1833: 
Raja Ram Mohun Roy 

59. The original name of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa: 
Gadhadhar Chatterjee 

60. Who was the Viceroy when Gandhiji conducted first satyagraha in India: 
Chelmsford 

61. Who was the Viceroy when AITUC was formed: 
Chelmsford 


62. Who is regarded as the father of renaissance in Andhra: 
Veeresalingam 

63. Who was the leader of Dharma Sabha which has the chief objective to counteract the propaganda of Brahma Samaj: 
Radhakant Dev 

64. Name the Governor-General who is called the “Maker of Modern India”: 
Dalhousie 

65. Who was the first to rule India with the designation of ‘Governor-General of India’, which was introduced in 1833 as complete authority all over India was granted: 
William Bentick 

66. Who was elected as the president in the All India Kisan Sabha held in Lucknow in 1936 : 
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati 

67. Who was the Viceroy when SP Sinha became the first Indian Governor: 
Chelmsford 

68. The Viceroy when Indian Air Force was formed: 
Wellington 

69. The Viceroy when Aligarh Muslim University (1920) was established: 
Chelmsford 

70. Who was the founder of the Scindia dynasty: 
Ranoji Scindia 

71. In which century the Carnatic Wars were fought: 
18th 


72. In which Princely state Ranbeer Code was brought into effect in the lines of Indian Penal Code implemented in British India
Kashmir 

73. In which occasion the transfer of capital of British India to Delhi from Calcutta was announced King George V: 
Delhi Durbar of 1911 

74. Who was selected as the second Satyagrahi when Gandhiji launched individual Satyagraha in 1940: 
Jawaharlal Nehru 

75. Whom Gandhiji called Rajarshi: 
Purushotham Das Tandon 

76. Which jail was described by Gandhiji as his ‘Home away from home”: 
Yervada

 77. Which tool did Gandhiji promote to achieve economically, and ultimately complete independence from the British Empire: 
Spinning Wheel

78. Which session of the Indian National Congress decided to reorganise Provincial Congress Committees on the basis of linguistic areas: 
1920 Nagpur 

79. Who was elected the first president of the Indian Liberal Federation (1918): 
Surendra Nath Bannerjee 

80. Why Gandhiji called for the boycott of the Simon Commission: 
None of the members were Indians 

81. In which year Gandhiji went to South Africa for the first time: 
1893 


82. In which year Gandhiji decided to return to India from South Africa: 
1914 

83. Where Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned when he was arrested during the Quit India Movement: 
Aga Khan Palace, Pune 

84. Who led the Salt Satyagraha when Mahatma Gandhi was arrested: 
Abbas Tyabji 

85. How did Mahathma Gandhi help during the Zulu Rebellion in South Africa: 
By nursing the wounded rebels 

86. Who was appointed as the first Nawab of Carnatic by Aurangazeb in 1692: 
Zulfikar Ali Khan I 

87. Who was the last Carnatic Nawab: 
Ghulam Muhammad Ghouse Khan 

88. In which year the British annexed the Carnatic Nawabdom applying Doctrine of Lapse as the thirteenth Nawab died without heir: 
1855 

89. Who was appointed as the first Secretary of State in British India: 
Lord Stanley 

90. In which year Indian National Congress approved the Basic Education System propounded by Gandhiji: 
1938 

91. In which year was the Champaran Satyagraha: 
1917 


92. The candidate whom Gandhiji supported when the election was conducted to the post of the president of Indian National Congress in 1939: 
Pattabhi Seetharamaiah 

93. From which monument the design of the central dome of Viceregal Palace (now Rashtrapathi Bhavan) was copied: 
Sanchi Stupa 

94. Identify the Viceroy who wrote home these words after his first meeting with Mahatma Gandhi: “Mr. Gandhi’s religious and moral views are, I believe, admirable, but I confess that I find it difficult to understand the practice of them in politics.”
 Lord Reading 

95. Which European power supported Chanda Sahib, the Nawab of Arcot: 
The French 

96. The date in which Gandhiji started the Dandi March: 
1930 March 12 

97. The first person to appear in the stamp of independent India: 
Mahathma Gandhi 

98. The institution in England where Gandhiji studied law: 
Inner Temple 

99. Whom Gandhiji called ‘the great sentinel’: 
Rabindranath Tagore 


100. The Viceroy who unified the armies of the three Presidencies of Bengal, Bombay and Madras under a single leadership in 1895
- Lord Elgin II