Struggle For Independence Of India — Part 2 MCQs with Explanations

The Cripps Mission had failed, and on 8 August 1942, Gandhi made a call to Do or Die in his Quit India speech delivered in Bombay at the Gowalia Tank Maidan.

The Young Bengal was a group of radical Bengali free thinkers emerging from Hindu College, Calcutta. They were also known as Derozians, after their firebrand teacher at Hindu College, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.

The 1907 Punjab unrests were a period of unrest in the British Indian province of Punjab, principally around the Colonisation bill that was implemented in the province in 1906. This timeline has often been called the beginning of the freedom movement in Punjab. Important leaders of this movement include Lala Lajpat Rai, Het Thakkar, among others. In 1907, Lala Lajpat Rai was deported.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, lawyer and an independence activist. He was the first leader of the Indian Independence Movement. Lokmanya Tilak was in command of the nationalist movement before Gandhi had assumed leadership of the Congress.

Initially started as a religious movement with a view to reforming the Sikh religion by purging it of the degenerate features, Kuka movement, founded in 1840 in Western Punjab, turned into a political struggle against the British. The founder of Kuka movement was Bhagat Jawahar Mal.

On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins 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. The issue on which the Civil disobedience movement of 1930 was launched was Salt monopoly exercised by the British Government.

English was made the medium of instruction in India's schools in 1835, and many Indians increasingly started learning english.

The Khilafat Movement was launched to protest against the humiliation of the Turkish Caliph by allied powers after the end of first world war.

Among the given reform movements, the Brahmo Samaj was the first to be started in the 19th Century. The Brahmo Samaj was founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy in 1828. Option A: The Prathana Samaj, founded by Dr. Atmaram Pandurang in Bombay in 1867, was a reform movement that aimed to promote monotheism and social reforms. Option C: The Arya Samaj, founded by Swami Dayanand Saraswati in 1875, aimed to promote Vedic values, Hindu unity, and social reforms. Option D: The Ramakrishna Mission, founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1897, was established to propagate the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and promote social service. Therefore, the correct option is Option B: Brahmo Samaj , as it was the first reform movement to be started in the 19th Century, founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy in 1828.

Lokmanya Tilak was one of the prominent Indian independence activists. He was the first leader of the Indian Independence Movement. He was the father of Extremist Movement. The British Colonial authorities derogatorily called him 'Father of the Indian Unrest'

The Arya Samaj is a monotheistic Hindu reform movement founded in India by Swami Dayananda in 1875 at Bombay. He was a sannyasin (ascetic) who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. The Theosophical Society was founded in the United States by Madam H.P Blavatsky and Colonel H.S. Olcott, who later came to India and founded the headquarters of the Society at Adyar near Madras in 1886.

Non-Cooperation Movement got the support from both Hindus and Muslims. Muslims were opposing British government because of division of Turkey by the allied powers during frist world war.

Apart from the Quit India Movement which started on 9th August 1942, the other sensational activity of the freedom fighters that was done on 9th August was the Kakori Mail train robbery . The Kakori train robbery took place on 9th August 1925. The Kakori train robbery was an important incident during the Indian independence movement. A group of revolutionaries, led by Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqullah Khan, and others, targeted a train carrying British government funds. The aim was to use the funds for revolutionary activities against British colonial rule. The Kakori train robbery was an attempt by the revolutionaries to secure funds for their cause and create awareness about their struggle for independence. The incident highlighted the extent to which some freedom fighters were willing to go to achieve their goals. Option A: The Salt Satyagraha, also known as the Salt March, was a civil disobedience campaign initiated by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930 to protest against the British salt tax. It began on March 12, 1930, and concluded with the symbolic picking up of salt by Gandhi on April 6, 1930, at Dandi, Gujarat. Option B: The boycott of the Simon Commission took place in 1928 when the Simon Commission, a group of British officials, was appointed to review and recommend constitutional reforms in India. Indians protested the Commission's composition, which had no Indian members, and called for its boycott. Option C: The Champaran Satyagraha, initiated by Mahatma Gandhi in 1917, aimed to address the grievances of indigo farmers in Champaran, Bihar, against the oppressive indigo plantation system imposed by British landlords. Therefore, the correct option is Option D: Kakori Mail train robbery , which was another sensational activity of freedom fighters that took place on 9th August, apart from the Quit India Movement.

During Quit India Movement (1942) parallel Government established in a part of India i.e in Ballia (By Chittu Pandey), Tamluk(Bengal), Satara(Maharastra). The parallel government of Satara ran for long time comparatively to others.

Quit India Movement was started on 8 Aug,1942 in Bombay under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. In this movement he gave a slogan "Do or Die". Mahatama Gandhi gave this slogan first time during this movement.

To violate salt law Gandhiji decided to march from Sabarmati to Dandi (12 March,1930 - 5 April,1930) with 78 delegates. This march is known as Dandi March. This was the beginning of civil disobedience in India and it spread over the different parts of country.

Freedom of India is an end that will purify all means employed to achieve it was not one of the points stressed by Mahatma Gandhi while exhorting the people to join the Quit India Movement.

Gandhiji started first Satyagraha movement in 1909 in South Africa and in India started in 1917 from Champaran.

The Non-Cooperation Movement was officially launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1920 It was initiated as a response to two major events: the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (1919) and the widespread resentment against the Rowlatt Act. Gandhi urged Indians to boycott British institutions —including schools, courts, and legislative councils—to weaken British control peacefully. Thus, the year 1920 marks the formal beginning of this major mass movement in India’s freedom struggle.

The first session of an All India States' People's Conference was held in Bombay in December 1927. The Conference brought together representatives from hundreds of Indian princely states, including Baroda, Bhopal, Travancore and Hyderabad.

G. K. Gokhale freedom fighter opposes the Annie Besant's idea of launching Home Rule Movement.

The three dynamic leaders of Lokmanya Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pal, who had been promoting self-reliance and opposing the monopoly of the British goods in India, famously came together as the Lal-Bal-Pal trio.

Though Shah Waliullah started it, the actual founder of the Wahabi movement in India was Syed Ahmed (1786-1831) of Raibareilly in Uttar Pradesh. He came in touch with Aziz and 1820-21 onwards started preaching the ideals of Islamic reforms. Syed Ahmed was the founder of wahabi movement in india.

Both statement(s) are correct related to the Non-cooperation Movement. It aimed to resist British rule in India through nonviolent means. Protestors would refuse to buy British goods, adopt the use of local handicrafts and picket liquor shops. The ideas of Ahimsa and nonviolence, and Gandhi's ability to rally hundreds of thousands of common citizens towards the cause of Indian independence, were first seen on a large scale in this movement through the summer 1920, they feared that the movement might lead to popular violence.

The 24-day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly. It gained worldwide attention which gave impetus to the Indian independence movement and started the nationwide Civil Disobedience Movement.

Non-Cooperation movement started in 1920 under the leadership of M.K Gandhi. Non-Violence was basic and compulsory feature of this movement but in Chauri- Chaura (5th Feb, 1922) the principle of non-violence was not taken care of and Gandhi suspended the movement in Bardoli on 13 Feb, 1922.

Socialism is a social and economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy. Modern socialism originated from an 18th-century intellectual and working class political movement that criticised the effects of industrialization and private property on society. So it is essentially a movement of the workers.

The Quit India Movement, or the 'August Movement', was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British Rule of India.

Correct Chronological order is: Poona Pact (1932), Quit India movement(1942), Shimla conference (1945), Cabinet mission (1946).

Aruna Asaf Ali (née Aruna Ganguly; 16 July 1909 – 29 July 1996) was an Indian independence activist. She is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay during the Quit India Movement, 1942.

Two great socio-religious reformers of the 19th century who provided inspiration to the Indian National Movement were Dayanand Saraswati and Vivekananda.

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.

The Bhoodan Movement or Land Gift Movement, was a voluntary land reform movement in India, started by Acharya Vinoba Bhave in 1951 at Pochampally village which is now in Telangana, India and known as Bhoodan Pochampally.

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. This led to suppression of the movement and was followed by the arrest of other leaders.

The Non-Cooperation Movement was withdrawn after the Chauri Chaura incident in February 1922. The Working Committee of the Congress met at Bardoli on 11 and 12 February 1922 and passed a resolution suspending mass civil disobedience till the atmosphere was perfectly non-violent.

The main objectives of the Non-Cooperation Movement were restoration of the old status of the Caliph (Khilafat Demand) and attainment of Swaraj for India.

The Kheda Satyagraha of 1918, in the Kheda district of Gujarat, India during the period of the British Raj, was a Satyagraha movement organized by Mohandas Gandhi. It was a major revolt in the Indian independence movement. It was the third Satyagraha movement after Champaran Satyagraha and Ahmedabad mill strike.

Ahmedabad Mill Strike, 1918 was one of the initial movements led by Gandhi in the beginning of 20th century after his return from South Africa. It was one of the formative events in the political career of Mahatma Gandhi.

Annie Besant gave new hope to the country. “The moment of England's difficulty is the moment of India's opportunity.” She started the Home Rule League Movement to be later supported fully by Tilak. It aimed at self-government for India within the British Commonwealth.

A campaign in defense of the caliph was launched, led in India by the brothers Shaukat and Muḥammad Ali and by Abul Kalam Azad. The leaders joined forces with Mahatma Gandhi's noncooperation movement for Indian freedom, promising nonviolence in return for his support of the Khilafat movement.