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Q1. Who founded Brahmo Samaj?
Raja Rammohan Roy and Dwarakanath Tagore conceived the idea as far back as 1830, but it came to be founded only in 1861 by Nobin Chandra Roy at Lahore. However, Raja Ram Mohan Roy is considered as the founder of Brahmo Samaj.
Q2. Who founded Ramakrishna Mission?
Swami Vivekananda - 1.5.1897 - Headquartered at Belur Math, West Bengal.
Q3. Who founded the Arya Samaj?
Swami Dayananda - 10-4-1875.
Q4. Who founded the Indian National Congress?
Allan Octavian Hume (A.O.Hume) along with Dadhabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Wacha, Womesh Chandra Banerji, Surendranath Banerji, Monomohun Ghose, Mahadev Govind Ranade and William Wedderburn - in December 1885. All of them were members of the Theosophical Society.
Q5. Where was the first session of Indian National Congress held?
Bombay - December 1885 - attended by 72 delegates.
Q6. Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress?
W.C.Bannerji - Womesh Chandra Bannerji.
Q7. Who was the first to make the demand for Self rule government?
Gopalakrishna Gokhale in 1905 followed by Dadhabhai Naoroji in 1906.
Q8. Who were the important moderate nationalists leaders?
Dadhabhai Naoroji, M.G.Ranade, Surendranath Banerji, Phirozshah Mehta, Badruddin Tayabji, Gopalakrishna Gokhale, Dinshaw Wacha, Anandamohan Bose, Rashbehari Ghose and others.
Q9. Who expounded the "Drain Theory"?
Dadhabhai Naoroji - it is about the way the Britishers collecting huge cash and jewels from the rulers across India, at every available opportunity.
Q10. Who declared that "Swaraj was the birthright of every Indian and not a gift to be granted by the British"?
Lokmanya Tilak (Bala Gangadhara Tilak).
Q11. Who were the nationalists leaders considered as "extremists"?
Bala Gangadhara Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, Bipin Chandra Pal and Aurobindo Ghosh.
Q12. Who started the Ganapathi Festival which is very famous in Maharashtra specially in Mumbai to uniite people religiously ?
Bala Gangadhara Tilak in 1893.
Q13. Which freedom fighter started the "Shivaji Festival" to unite people on patriotic grounds?
Balagangadhara Tilak in 1895.
Q14. Who started the Deccan Education Society to indianize the education system?
Bala Gangadhara Tilak - under this he started the New English School which later became the Ferguson College, Pune.
Q15. What are the dailies started by Bala Gangadhara Tilak?
"Maharatta"(English) and "Kesari" (Marathi).
Q16. When did Balagangadhara Tilak start the "Home Rule Movement"?
1916 (Earlier to him Lala Lajpat Rai started the Hole Rule League in 1914 in USA). Later in 1916, Mrs. Annie Beasant also started this movement.
Q17. "Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it". Whose quote is this?
Balagangadhara Tilak.
Q18. For his active part in the anti-partition movement of Bengal, Balagangadhara Tilak was imprisoned for 6 years in .......?
Mandalay Jail, Burma.
Q19. Lala Lajpat Rai was popularly known as?
Punjab Kesari (Lion of Punjab)
Q20. For his active part in the anti-partition movement of Bengal, Lala Lajpat Rai was deported to...?
Burma in 1907. After return he visisted USA and founded Home Rule League in 1914.
Q21. What were the journalistic and literary contribution of Lala Lajpat Rai?
He started the newspaper "Punjabee" and wrote the book "Unhappy India".
Q22. Lala Lajpat Rai unfortunately died of....?
Injuries sustained during police lathicharge on the procession he led against the Simon Commission on 31.10.1928 at Lahore. He died on 17.11.1928.
Q23. Who was known as the "Father of Revolutionary Thought in India"?
Bipin Chandra Pal.
Q24. What were the journalistic contributions of Bipin Chandra Pal?
Weekly named "Paridarsak", Assistant editor of "Bengal Public Opinion" and the "Tribune". He then started his own "New India" a daily.
Q25. Which journal was considered as the powerful organ propagating extremist ideologies and who founded it?
BANDE MATARAM - in 1906 by Bipin Chandra Pal and Aurobindo Ghosh.
Q26. Why was Bipin Chandra Pal imprisoned by the British for six months?
For refusing to give evidence against Aurobindo Ghosh's trial for the Bande Mataram Sedition case.
Q27. "New lamps for Old" was a series of articles written during 1893-94 by ..?
Aurobindo Ghosh.
Q28. "Passive Ressistance" was a doctrine advocated by?
Aurobindo Ghosh. He wrote about this doctrine in a series of articles in the Bande Mataram in 1907.
Q29. After which incident, Aurobindo Ghosh left to Pondicherry?
Kennedy murders.
Q30. What was the famous spiritual centre founded by Aurobindo Ghosh in Pondicherry?
Aurobindo Ashram.
Q31. What were the literary contributions of Aurobindo Ghosh?
"Savitri" a longest epic English poem and the book "The Divine Life".
Q32. When was the Partition of Bengal announced and implemented?
Announced on 4th July 1905 and implemented on 16th October 1905.
Q33. When and where was the slogan "Bande Mataram" adopted?
In a protest meeting held at the Federal Hall" Calcutta against the partition plan on the 16th October 1905.
Q34. The term "Lal-Bal-Pal" refers to...?
Lal - Lala Lajpat Rai; Bal -- Balagangandhara Tilak; Pal - Bipin Chandra Pal
Q35. "Bande Mataram Sedition Case" against whom the trial was intended?
Aurobindo Ghosh.
Q36. Though British intended to divide the Hindu Muslim both have come to an understanding for unity in 1916. What is it?
The Lucknow Pact of 1916 between Indian National Congress and the Muslim League.
Q37. Who was instrumental in bringing out the unity and pact between INC & ML?
Bal Gangadhar Tilak. The pact was aimed at demanding a common political reforms.
Q38. When was the Montague Chelmsford Reforms introduced?
1919
Q39. What inspired Annie Beasant to propose and start the Home Rule League?
Inspired by the Irish Home Rule movement.
Q40. With two Home Rule Leagues in place, after reaching an understanding and cooperation, how did they operate?
Tilak's movement concentrated in Maharashtra and Central provinces, while Annie Beasant's movement was carried on through rest of India.
Q41. With whom did Bal Gangadhar Tilak get involved in legal battle?
Valentine Chirol - a British journalist and writer who made deprecatory remarks in his book "Indian Unrest" . Actually he called Tilak as the "father of Indian Unrest".
Q42. Who was the Secretary of State of UK, when INC was formed?
Lord Cross.
Q43. Which Viceroy became a victim of his own convict during his visit to the Andamans?
Lord Mayo. While inspecting the Andaman Jails,he was assassinated by Sher Ali, a pathan convict on 8th February1872 .
Q44. Who were considered as "Liberators of Indian Press"?
1. Sir Charles Metacalfe 2. Lord McCaulay.
Q45. Which enactment of the British was called as "Gagging Act"?
The Vernacular Press Act of 1878.
Q46. Who repealed the Vernacular Press Act?
Lord Rippon in 1882.
Q47. Who arranged the Delhi Durbar to declare Queen Victoria as the Empress of India?
Lord Lytton.
Q48. Whose reactionary regime gave a visible form to the Indian nationalism?
Lord Lytton.
Q49. Which bill, in its original form, gave Indian judges to try Europeans also?
Ilbert Bill.
Q50. What are the various Indian associations and started by whom during the nationalist movement?
1. British India Society -1839 - William Adam. 2. National Indian Association - 1867 - Mary Carpenter; 3. Indian Society - 1872 - Anand Mohan Bose. 4. Servants of India Society - 1905 - Gokhale.
Q51. Introduction of what system helped the cause of rise and growth of nationalism in India?
Introduction of western system of education and English language.
Q52. Which organizational members were responsible for extremism in INC?
Arya Samaj - most of its members were in the forefront of the national movement.
Q53. Who was the first to use the word "Swaraj"?
Swami Dayanand.
Q54. Although vehemently opposed by resident Britishers and Europeans, the Ilbert Bill aimed at?
Establishing social/judicial equality in the administration of justice.
Q55. Who was the first to start an agitation for political reforms?
Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
Q56. What was the earlier profession of Raja Ram mohan Roy prior to becoming a social reformer?
He was a clerk with the East India Company.
Q57. Who was the first woman President of INC?
Mrs. Annie Beasant.
Q58. Who organized the East India Association in London?
Dadabhai Naoroji - to influence the British public opinion.
Q59. British Indian Association (31.10.1851) was founded by?
By merging the Landholders Society and the Bengal British India Society in 1851.
Q60. What was the first political association formed in Bombay Presidency?
The Bombay Association, 1852. Founded by Dadabhai Naoroji.
Q61. The Madras Native Association was formed from?
It was actually proposed to be a branch of the British Indian Association of Calcutta. However, later it was founded as The Madras Native Association by Lakshminarasu Chetty sometime around 1851/1852.
Q62. What was the most important of all the pre-congress nationalist organizations?
Indian Association of Calcutta. It was the only pre-congress organization which tried to become an All India body through convening two All India conferences.
Q63. Who was the first Muslim President of INC?
Badruddin Tayabji.
Q64. Who presided over the Surat Session of INC?
1907 - Rashbehari Ghosh.
Q65. How the two factions of the INC were known in Hindi?
Naram Dhal (Moderates) and Garam Dhal (Extremists)
Q66. When did British enact a law, making the preaching of nationalism an offence?
1898
Q67. Who described Bal Gangadhara Tilak as the "father of Indian Unrest'?
Valentine Chirol (see Q.41 also).
Q68. In which year did Tilak declared 'Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it"?
1916 while founding the Home Rule League.
Q69. Who was the first to propound the doctrine of "passive resistance"?
Aurobindo Ghosh.
Q70. Who wrote the following passage: " I say, of the Congress, this that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their accomplishments is not a spirit of sincerity, and that the methods it has chosen are not the right methods, and the leaders in whom it trusts, not the right sort of men to be leaders, in brief that we are at present the blind led, if not by the blind, at any rate by the one eyed..."?
Aurobindo Ghosh.
Q71. Whose quotes are the following: " When the Queen desires that none should die, when the Governor declares that all should live, will you kill yourself by timidity and starvation"?
Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
Q72. What is the true meaning of "Satyagraha"?
"Holding on to the truth". Satyagraha can be expressed in different forms like fasting, voluntary migration, strikes, hartals etc., It was based on truth and non-violence.
Q73. What influenced Gandhiji to follow the path of Satyagraha?
The literary works of Thoreau, Emerson and Tolstoy.
Q74. When did Gandhiji launch his first satyagraha?
At Champaran District of Bihar in 1917. Followed it up with Ahmedabad and Khera District of Gujarat.
Q75. What made Gandhiji to comment "mistake of a Himalayan magnitude"?
Against the Rowlatt Act - Gandhiji was planning an All India Hartal on 6.4.1919. Before that some violent incidents have taken place in Punjab, Gujarat and Bengal. This upset Gandhiji and made him to comment as above for lack of preparation of the masses for Satyagraha.
Q76. Jalianwala Bagh (Bagh=Garden) is named after whom?
Pandit Jalla - a courtier of Maharaja Ranjit Singh who developed the garden.
Q77. What are the two major reasons that prompted the announcement for non-cooperation movement during 1921-1922?
1. Amritsar Jalianwala Bagh massacre which was based on Rowlatt Act. 2. "Khilafat Wrong" - demanding a lenient attitude towards Turkey's Ottoman empire.
Q78. Swadeshi movement mainly aimed at?
Boycott of foreign goods.
Q79. Under whose name a national level fund was raised?
Tilak Swaraj Fund - for installing more and more Charkas (spinning wheel) on a large scale basis.
Q80. When did the Chauri Chaura incident take place?
5th February 1922 at Chauri Chaura, a village near Gorakhpur, UP where angry mob burnt a police station and killed 22 policemen.
Q81. Which incident and on what date did Gandhiji withdraw the non-cooperation movement?
11.2.1928 - Chauri Chaura incident. Angered over the incident Gandhiji withdrew the non-cooperation movement.
Q82. When and for what purpose the Simon Commission was appointed?
8.11.1927 for establishing a responsible government.
Q83. What was Lord Irwin's comment about Simon Commission?
"Lacking in imagination".
Q84. When did Lord Irwin make his declaration about the status to be given to India? How was it called?
Grant of Dominion status on 31st October 1929 which was called the "Deepavali Declaration".
Q85. What committee was appointed by the Indians to make recommendations on the Principles of Constitution of India?
Motilal Nehru Committee and the committee submitted its report in August 1928 what was known as Nehru Report.
Q86. What was the principal theme of the report of Nehru Report?
That the country's new constitution would rest on the solid base of Dominion status.
Q87. Which two leaders had a confrontation on the Nehru Report?
Md. Ali Jinnah and M.R.Jayakar of Hindu Maha Sabha.
Q88. Who founded the Muslim Nationalist Party ( a non starter) ?
Khaliquzzamman, Dr.Sheikh Muhammad Alam and Dr.M.A.Ansari.
Q89. Who founded the "Khudai Khidmatgars" (meaning Red Shirts)?
Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan in the North West Frontier region.
Q90. What prompted Gandhiji to organize Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930-34?
The British' failure to respond to the 11 point charter of demands submitted by Gandhiji in early 1930.
Q91. Where did Gandhiji start his Civil Disobedience movement in 1930?
12.3.1930 from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi in Gujarat to breat the salt law.
Q92. How many days and distance was covered by Gandhiji during Dandi March?
390 Kms and 24 days.
Q93. How many volunteers accompanied Gandhiji in the Dandi March?
79 volunteers.
Q94. When did Gandhiji reach Dandi and break the Salt Law?
5th April 1930.
Q95. Who led the Salt Satyagraha at Vedaranyam Tamilnadu 0n 30.4.1930?
C.Rajagopalachari.
Q96. What was the outcome of the Civil Disobedience movement/Salt Satyagraha?
Gandhi-Irwin Pact 1931.
Q97. Who was instrumental in arranging the compromise and signing of Gandhi Irwin Pact of 1931?
Sir Tegh Bahadur Sapru and Dr. Jayakar.
Q98. Who led the Simon Commission of 1927/1928?
Sir John Simon - appointed in 1927 when Mr.Baldwyn was the PM of UK.
Q99. When did the Simon Commission submit its report?
October 1929.
Q100. Who was the major casuality of India, a consequence of Simon Commission?
Lala Lajpat Rai.
Q101. "Deepavali Declaration" of 1940 was aimed at?
Grant of Dominion Status.
Q102. The Communal Award was made in?
1932
Q103. Who headed the Cripps Mission?
Sir Stanford Cripps.
Q104. How did Gandhiji describe the Cripps Mission?
"Post dated cheque on a crashing bank".
Q105. When and where was the 'Quit India" resolution passed?
All India Congress Committee - Bombay session - 8th August 1942.
Q106. What was the slogan given to the people of India by Gandhiji during August 1942 ?
"Do or Die". This was given at the Gowalia Tank Maidan, Maidan.
Q107. Gowalia Tank Maidan of Bombay where Gandhiji gave us the slogan of "Do or Die" is now known as?
August Kranti Maidan.
Q108. Who founded the Hindu Maha Sabha?
Madan Mohan Malaviya. 1915.
Q109. Who founded the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh?
K.B.Hedgewar in 1925 at Nagpur.
Q110. Which was the first organization founded in India?
Mitramela - 1899 - by Ganesh and Vinayak Savarkar (brothers)
Q111. Which is considered as the first secret socio-political organization founded in India?
Anushilan Samiti - Calcutta - 1902 by Barindrakumar Ghosh, Jatindranath Banerji and Promatha Mitter.
Q112. Who founded the first All India level revolutionary organization?
1924 - Sachin Sanyal and Jogesh Chandra Chatterji founded the Hindustan Republican Association.
Q113. When and who founded the Ghaddar Party?
Har Dayal and Sohan Singh Bakhna in USA (San Francisco) in 1913.
Q114. Who founded the Indian Independence League in Japan?
Rash Beheari Bose in 1942.
Q115. "Jugantar" was the most revolutionary daily of India from Bengal during freedom struggle movement. Who founded this news paper?
1906 - Barindrakumar Ghosh and Bupendranath Dutta.
Q116. "Bande Mataram" was a journal founded abroad in support of the nationalist freedom struggle. Who founded the same?
Madame Bhikaji Rustom Cama, from Paris in 1909.
Q117. Who hired the Japanese ship "Komagatu Maru" to transport Indian immigrants to Canada?
Gurdit Singh Sandhu in 1914.
Q118. Who seized the Chittagong armoury in 1930?
Surjiya Sen on April 18, 1930. Later he was captured and hanged on 12.1.1934.
Q119. Who fasted for 64 days in Lahore Jail and died, demanding better conditions for jail inmates and convicts?
Jatin Das in September 1929.
Q120. Lala Lajpat Rai was seriously wounded and died during the protest rally organized at Lahore in February 1928. Who are the revolutionaries who took revenge for the brutal behaviour of the British against Lala Lajpat Rai?
Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru. They killed the British official Saunders in December 1928. All the three were hanged to death on 23.3.1931.
Q121. Who killed the British officials Mr.W.C.Rand and Lt. Ayerst at Poona, for their repressive behaviour during the Plague epidemic crisis in Poona?
Chapekar Brothers - Damodar and Balakrishna in 1897.
Q122. In an attempt to kill Mr. Kingsford the infamous judge of Muzzafarpur, Bengal the family of Mr. Kennedy another British official, were killed. Who killed them?
Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose on 30.4.1908
Q123. Curzon Willie, a British official in the India Office, London was killed by?
Madan Lal Dingra on 1.7.1909.
Q124. Mr. Ashe Collector of Tirunelvely, Tamilnadu was killed by?
Vanchinathan at the Maniyachi Railway Junction on 17.11.1911.
Q125. Who unsuccessfully made an attempt on the life of Lord Hardinge the Viceroy?
22.12.1912 - Rash Behari Bose and Sachin Sanyal at Delhi.
Q126. Two school going 14 year old girl children killed Mr.Steven the District Magistrate of Tippera in Bengal. Who were they?
Shanti Ghosh and Suniti Chaudhri - 14.12.1931.
Q127. Who founded the "Swaraj Party" during the freedom movement?
Chittaranjan Das (C.R.Das) on 1.1.1923.
Q128. Muddiman Committee was appointed in which year to go into the diarchy of the Montague Chelmsford Reforms?
1924 - the committee was headed by Sir Alexander Muddiman and consisted of nine members.
Q129. Where was actually the Communist Party of India founded and by whom?
Tashkhent - Russia (now in Uzbekistan) by M.N.Roy, Abani Mukherjee and some others in 1920.
Q130. When from the Communist Party of India, came to be active and considered to have been founded in India?
1925 after the Kanpur Communist Conference by serious communist activists like S.A,Dange, Nalini Gupta and Muzaffar Ahmed.
Q131. Who founded the Indian National Army?
Captain Mohan Singh - 1942 in Japan with the help of the Japanese government and with prisoners of wars and Indian repartriates from Malaya and Burma.
Q132. Who gave the title "Father of the Nation" to Gandhiji?
Subash Chandra Bose (NSC Bose)
Q133. What title was given to Subash Chandra Bose by Gandhiji?
Prince of Patriots.
Q134. Why did Dadhabhai Naoroji turned from liberalism to radicalism and extremism?
He was disillusioned with British politicians and policies.
Q135. Gopalakrishna Gokhale claimed for self government not as a matter of right but as a reward by the display of wisdom, experience and modernization. Why did he continue with this policy?
He was greatly influenced by British ideas of modernization and peaceful evolution.
Q136. Aurobindo Ghosh was considered as the most typical representative of extremist nationalism in its intense metaphysical and religious form. For what reasons?
Nationalism to him was not a mere political programme, but a religion that had come from God.
Q137. What was the name of the novel written by Saratchandra Chatterji that glorified the path of revolution and was banned by the British?
Pather Dabi meaning Demand of the Road.
Q138. Ganesh Savarkar founded a secret society. What was it?
Abhinava Bharat.
Q139. Jatindranath Chattopadhyaya was a revolutionary terrorist during freedom struggle. But his later years were the opposite of his fame. What was it?
Ramakrishna Mission Swamiji.
Q140. What was the newspaper from Maharashtra which played a major role in the freedom struggle movement?
Kranti.
Q141. Revolutionary terrorists were mainly from?
Upper Castes.
Q142. What was "Vande Mataram"?
It means "I bow to thee, mother". It was a poem of 1882 as part of a novel called "Anandamatha" written by Bankim Chandra Chattapodhyaya.
Q143. Who was the first to design a national flag for India?
Madame Bikaji Rustom Cama - in 1907 - It was a tricolor flag - green, yellow and organge horizontal bands with the green band containing eight lotus flowers, yellow band having "Vande Mataram" in Hindi and the orange band containing crescent and sun. However, it was not accepted by the Muslim League and others.
Q144. Who was popularly known as "Bagha Jatin"?
Jatin Mukherjee.
Q145. How did Rabindranath Tagore react to the Jalianwala Bagh massacre?
He renounced his knighthood in protest.
Q146. Who were the leading industrialists to participate actively in the non-cooperation movement?
Purushottamdas Thakurdas, Jamunadas Dwaraka Das and Setalvad.
Q147. In which session of the INC the Tilak Swaraj Fund collection was decided?
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) session - April 1921.
Q148. In which session of Khilafat Conference, the Ali brothers called on the Muslims to resign from the army and what was the punishment meted out to them?
Karachi session in July 1921. They were jailed in November 1921.
Q149. When and where was the Muslim League founded?
December 1906 at Dacca by Nawab Viqar ul Mulk. However, Aga Khan is given the credit of founding Muslim League because he made the appeal for a political organization for Muslims in October 1906 itself, after a meeting with Lord Minto at Simla.
Q150. When did Muslim League affirm its desire for a two nation?
Lucknow Session of Muslim League in 1937.
Q151. When was an official resolution was passed demanding partition?
Lahore session of 1940 known as "Pakistan resolution".
Q152. Muslim came into mass recognition and prominence only after...?
Md. Ali Jinnah arrival from England and taking over the League by 1934.
Q153. Who persuaded Md. Ali Jinnah to come to India and take over Muslim League?
Liaqat Ali Khan a leader from Uttar Pradesh. Md. Ali Jinnah was a permanent resident of England. He was persuaded to take over Muslim League as it was making no progress.
Q154. Who gave or proposed the name "Pakistan"?
In 1933, Rahmat Ali, a student of Cambridge University, London gave this name in one of his pamphlets. The name was coined from the first letters Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sind and the final part of Baluchistan meaning "the land of pure".
Q155. Who was selected as the first person to court arrest as a symbolic protest to British Rule on October 17, 1940?
Vinobha Bhave.
Q156. Why did all the Congress Ministries in the provinces resigned in 1939?
Out break of WW II.
Q157. What remark was made by Md. Ali Jinnah on the resignation of Congress ministries?
'A day of deliverance".
Q158. On which date, Gandhiji and Md. Ali Jinnah discussed the CR Formula?
9th September 1944.
Q159. Wavell Plan of 1945 is also known as?
Shimla Conference 1945.
Q160. The Cabinet Mission of 1946 consisted of?
Sir Stanford Cripps, Lord Penthick Lawrence and A.V.Alexander. The committee arrived on 24th March 1946 to expedite the process of freedom.
Q161. When did Lord Wavell (Viceroy) call the Congress to form an interim government?
12th August 1946. The Congress reluctantly accepted the offer.
Q162. 16th August 1946 turned out to be a "black day" in Hindu Muslim relations. What was it?
The Muslim League decided to 16th August 1946 as "Direct Action Day", which unfortunately turned out to be of violence for four days, many factors contributing to the violence. Army had to be called to quell the violence.
Q163. In June 1946 an election was held to decide the Constituent Assembly. For how many seats the election was held and what was the outcome?
292 seats, out of which election for 288 was conducted (as four seats reserved Sikhs remained uncontested). Congress bagged 201 seats, Muslim League 74 and others 14 seats.
Q164. Based on which British resolution, the Constituent Assembly was formed to draft the Constitution of India?
Cabinet Mission Plan of 1946.
Q165. When was the Constituent Assembly formed and who headed the same?
9.12.1946 - Dr. Sachidanand Sinha. Upon his death, Dr. Rajendra Prasad took over.
Q166. Who headed the Constitution Drafting Committee?
B.R.Ambedkar. Thus he is called "father of Constitution.
Q167. When was the Interim Government formed?
2nd September 1946 and it lasted upto 15th August 1947.
Q168. Who became the first Home Minister of India in the Constituent Assembly?
Vallabhai Patel.
Q169. After independence what type of government was formed at the centre?
The Constituent Assembly took over as the provisional parliament of India under the leadership of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as Prime Minister.
Q170. When was the first general elections held?
1951/1952 - 25.10.1951 to 21.2.1952 for 489 seats of which Congress bagged 364 seats and the second largest party was the Communist Party of India with 16 seats. Number of independents were 37.
Q171. When was the first elected Lok Sabha constituted?
17.4.1952.
Q172. How was the Indian National Army also called?
Azad Hind Fauj
Q173. What was the name for the youth wing trained by Subhas Chandra Bose?
Tokyo Boys in the Japanese Military Academy.
Q174. What was the name of the women regiment raised by Nethaji?
Rani Jhansi Regiment.
Q175. Where did Nethaji proclaim a provisional government of Free India?
Singapore.
Q176. What was the slogan chanted by every INA sepoys?
Chalo Delhi.
Q177. What comment was made by Nethaji after the Battle of Imphal where the Britishers halted his army entering India and had to retreat back?
" Roads to Delhi are many and Delhi remains our goal".
Q178. What was the regimental slogan of INA during its march and who composed it?
"Kadam Kadam Badaye Jaa" (meaning step by step forward march) - composed by Ram Singh Thakur.
Q179. Besides Nethaji, who were the other notable personalities of INA, later to contribute for our country's development after freedom?
1. Genl. Shah Nawaz Khan - Became the first minister of state for Railway in the first Indian Cabinet. He was also awarded Padma Vibhushan.
2. Lakshmi Seghal - A Padma Vibhushan awardee. She was also an active member of the CPI (M) from 1971. In 2002, she contested the Presidential election.
3. Abid Hasan - A close associate of Bose, joined Indian Foreign Service and served as an Ambassador of Egypt, Denmark etc.,
4. Mohan Singh - Served two terms of Rajya Sabha as MP from INC.
5. Ram Singh Thakur - Music composer who composed the music for the National Anthem.
6. R.S.Benegal - A member of the Tokyo Boys. Joined Indian Air Force and retired as Air Commodore and was active during 1965 and 1971 wars.Awarded with Maha Vir Chakra.
Q180. How the INA got wound up and what happened to Nethaji?
The INA along with Japanese Army marched towards India and even captured Kohima. However, the surrender of Japan as part of the WWII, forced INA also to surrender and most of them captured. Nethaji in the meantime was believed to have escaped from getting captured, is believed to have died of an air crash on his way to Tokyo in 1945.
Q181. Where was the trial of INA officers held and in which year?
Red Fort, 1945-1946.