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Q. Who was the first to give the call for Swarajya – “India for Indians”?

A
Lokmanya Tilak
B
Dayanand Saraswati
C
Sri Aurobindo
D
Bhagat Singh

Correct Answer

Dayanand Saraswati

More Questions on History

  • Q. Why was the Simon Commission boycotted by the Indians?
    A)It did not have any woman member
    B)It did not include any Indian as a member
    C)It was appointed before the stipulated time
    D)If refused to meet prominent Indian leaders
    Answer: It did not include any Indian as a member
  • Q. Tilak started his career as a
    A)Professor
    B)Writer
    C)Journalist
    D)Lawyer
    Answer: Professor
  • Q. What was the name of the atom bomb dropped in Nagasaki city
    A)Fat Man
    B)Fat Boy
    C)Scorpion
    D)Death Kiss
    Answer: Fat Man
  • Q. Who scripted Gandhiji’s favorite song ‘Vaishnav Jan to __________ ‘?
    A)Premanand
    B)Narsi Mehta
    C)Chunilal
    D)Dharmiklal
    Answer: Narsi Mehta
  • Q. The utensils of the Indus Valley people were mainly made of
    A)copper
    B)clay
    C)bronze
    D)brass
    Answer: clay
  • Q. In 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent :
    A)Cripps Mission to India
    B)Wavell Mission to India
    C)Mount Mission to India
    D)August Offer
    Answer: Cripps Mission to India
  • Q. Identify, among the following, the saint who had preached non-sectarianism in Medieval times
    A)Ramananda
    B)Tukaram
    C)Dadu
    D)Raghunandan
    Answer: Dadu
  • Q. Which one of the following dynasties was ruling at the time of Alexander’s invasion?
    A)The Maurya
    B)The Nanda
    C)The Sunga
    D)The Kanva
    Answer: The Nanda
  • Q. Oil paint was first used for Buddhist paintings by Indian and Chinese painters in western __________ sometime between the fifth and tenth centuries
    A)Afghanistan
    B)Iraq
    C)Pakistan
    D)India
    Answer: Afghanistan
  • Q. Brahmavidya Panchakam is a Sanskrit work of __________
    A)Chattambi Swamikal
    B)Sree Narayana Guru
    C)K. Madhvan Nair
    D)Dr. Palpu
    Answer: Sree Narayana Guru
  • Q. The Virupaksha Temple was built by the
    A)Pallavas
    B)Chalukyas
    C)Kakatiyas
    D)Satavahans
    Answer: Chalukyas
  • Q. The first organisation in the Madras Presidency to agitate for the rights of Indians was the Madras Native Association which was established by publicist __________ Chetty in 1849. This organisation did not survive for long and was eventually disbanded.
    A)S. Ramaswami Mudaliar
    B)Gazulu Lakshminarasu
    C)P. Anandacharlu
    D)R. Balaji Rao
    Answer: Gazulu Lakshminarasu
  • Q. Karl Marx lived in exile and wrote from
    A)London
    B)Moscow
    C)Paris
    D)Stockholm
    Answer: London
  • Q. In which year was the partition of Bengal scrapped?
    A)1911
    B)1908
    C)1923
    D)1931
    Answer: 1911
  • Q. The historical monument Al Khazneh or The Treasury is located in the city of
    A)Tehran
    B)Baghdad
    C)Giza
    D)Petra
    Answer: Petra
  • Q. Who founded as Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College (MAO) at Aligarh in 1875?
    A)Mirza Mohammad
    B)Sir Saiyad Ahmed Khan
    C)Maulana Qasim Nanotvi
    D)Maulana Abdullah Ansari
    Answer: Sir Saiyad Ahmed Khan
  • Q. What is pietra dura?
    A)Pictorial mosaic work using semi-precious stones
    B)A form of music
    C)Armour
    D)None of the above
    Answer: Pictorial mosaic work using semi-precious stones
  • Q. Arrange the following historical events in the chronological order of their occurrence. I. Champaran Satyagraha II. Partition of Bengal III. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
    A)II, III, I
    B)I, II, III
    C)II, I, III
    D)I, III, II
    Answer: II, I, III
  • Q. Mahatma Gandhi compared Pherozeshah Mehta with the Himalayas, Tilak with the Ocean and Gokhale with
    A)the Ganges
    B)the Sky
    C)the Gangotri
    D)the Mansarovar Lake
    Answer: the Ganges
  • Q. Which of the following concept the Bhakti movement of Hinduism saw two ways of imaging the nature of the divine (Brahman)?
    A)Shaivism
    B)Nirguna and Saguna
    C)Sikkhism
    D)Jainism
    Answer: Nirguna and Saguna

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