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Who was known by the nick-name “Lokhitvadi”?

  1. Gopal Hari Deshmukh
  2. Mahadev Govind Ranade
  3. Jyotiba Phule
  4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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Who one of the following persons called Irwin and Gandhi as "the two Mahatmas"?

  1. Mira Behn
  2. Sarojini Naidu
  3. Madan Mohan Malviya
  4. Jawaharlal Nehru
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Which Article of the Constitution of India deals with the appellate jurisdiction of the supreme Court in connection with constitutional cases?

  1. Article 131
  2. Article 132
  3. Article 132 read with Art. 134 A
  4. Article 133 read with Art. 134 A
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Motilal Nehru was the leader of Swaraj Dal. Which of the following was not included in the Swaraj Party?

  1. Srinivasa Ayangar
  2. Chittaranjan Das
  3. Vitthal Bhai Patel
  4. C. Rajagopalachari
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Who of the following was not a moderate?

  1. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  3. A.O. Hume
  4. Madan Mohan Malviya
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Who started Home Rule league?

  1. Annie Besant
  2. Lokmanya Tilak
  3. Both Annie Besant & Lokmanya Tilak
  4. Sardar Patel
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Who among the following foreign travellers visited India during the reign of Jahangir?

  1. Father Anthony Monserate
  2. Francisco Pelsaert
  3. Niccolo Manucci
  4. Francois Bernier
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Who addressed Gandhiji as the "Father" of the Nation for the first time?

  1. Subhash Chandra Bose
  2. Ravindra Nath Tagore
  3. Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
  4. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
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Who among the following wrote on the original homeland of the Aryans?

  1. Shankaracharya
  2. Annie Besant
  3. Vivekanand
  4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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The name of D. K. Karve of Western India Figures in the context of which of the following?

  1. Sati Pratha
  2. Infanticide
  3. Women Education
  4. None of these
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Who became the President of the Indian National Congress after the resignation of Subhash Chandra Bose.

  1. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
  2. Pattabhi Sitaramayya
  3. Rajendra Prasad
  4. Sardar Patel
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Aruna Asaf Ali was connected with which one of the following movements as a woman organiser of underground activity?

  1. Civil Disobedience Movement
  2. Non-Cooperation Movement
  3. Quit India Movement
  4. Swadeshi Movement
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In which one of the following languages was the first issue of the Journal Ghadar published ?

  1. Urdu
  2. Hindi
  3. English
  4. Marathi
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Rabindranath Tagore, the great poet, emerged as a great painter when his age was about

  1. Seven years
  2. Twenty years
  3. Fifty years
  4. Seventy years
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Find out the correct sequence of the following from the code given below:

A. C. Rajagopalachari Plan
B. Wavell Plan
C. Mountbatten Plan
D. Cabinet Mission Plan

Code:

  1. A B C D
  2. B C D A
  3. A B D C
  4. B A C D
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Who of the following took the burning of the foreign clothes during the NonCooperation Movement as 'insensate waste':

  1. Rabindra Nath Tagore
  2. Mohammad Ali
  3. Lord Reeding
  4. Motilal Nehru
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The Pagal panthi rebellion was indeed rebellion of:

  1. Bhils
  2. Garos
  3. Gonds
  4. Koliyas
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After the sentence of B.G. Tilak, who among the following had pleaded for mercy and said : "My interest in Tilak is that of a Sanskrit scholar." ?

  1. Rabindranath Tagore
  2. Max Muller
  3. Bipinchandra Pal
  4. William Jones
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"Tinkathia System" in Champaran meant

  1. Cultivation of Indigo on the 3/20 area of land
  2. Cultivation of Indigo on 33% area of land
  3. Cultivation of Indigo on 30% area of land
  4. None of the above
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The First University Chair in Sanskrit was founded in Europe in:

  1. Britain
  2. France
  3. Germany
  4. Russia
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Match List-I with List-II and Select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:
List-I - List-II

A) Lady Katherine Mayo - 1) Freedom at Midnight
B) Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre - 2) Mother India
C) Ram Manohar Lohia - 3) Discovery of India
D) Jawaharlal Nehru - 4) Guilty Men of India's Partition

  1. A-2 B-1 C-4 D-3
  2. A-1 B-2 C-3 D-4
  3. A-1 B-2 C-4 D-3
  4. A-4 B-3 C-2 D-1
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Of the following, who called the "Father" of Indian unrest?

  1. A.O. Hume
  2. Dadabhai Naoroji
  3. LokmanyaTilak
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
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Who among the following had started Indian Home Rule Society in London ?

  1. Annie Besant
  2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  3. Shyamji Krishna Varma
  4. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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Two Home Rule Leagues were started in 1915-16 under the leadership of:

  1. Tilak and Annie Besant
  2. Tilak and Aurobindo Ghosh
  3. Tilak and Lala Lajpat Rai
  4. Tilak and Vipin Chandra Pal
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