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Question 191. Who of the following was not amongst the lawyers to fight the case of Indian National Army in 1946 in the Delhi Red Fort trial?
  1.    Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru
  2.    Bhulabhai Desai
  3.    Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
  4.    Dr. Kailash Nath Katju
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer: (c)Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel was not amongst the laywers to fight the case of Indian National Army in 1946 in the Delhi Red Fort trial.
Question 192. Who was the leader of the ‘Red Shirt Party’?
  1.    Maulana Azad
  2.    Mahatma Gandhi
  3.    Jawahar Lal Nehru
  4.    Abdul Gaffar Khan
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Abdul Gaffar Khan
Answer: (d)Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan’s educational and social reform work among the Pathans had politicised them. Gaffar Khan, also called Badshah Khan and Frontier Gandhi had started the first Pushto political monthly, Pukhtoon and had organised a volunteer brigade ‘Khudai Khidmatgars’, popularly known as the ‘Red Shirts’ who were pledged to the freedom struggle and non-violence.
Question 193. Baba Ramchandra organised peasants in
  1.    Bengal
  2.    Andhra
  3.    Bihar
  4.    Awadh
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Awadh
Answer: (d)Baba Ram Chandra was an Indian trade unionist who organised the farmers of Awadh to protest against the landlords in 1920s and 1930s. Other prominent leaders included Jhinguri Singh and Durgapal Singh.
Question 194. Which one of the following books is associated with rise of National Movement in India?
  1.    Anand Math
  2.    Gitanjali
  3.    Satyagrah Prakash
  4.    Gita Rahasya
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Anand Math
Answer: (a)Anand Math is associated with rise of National Movement in India.
Question 195. The title given by the British Government to Mahatma Gandhi and which was surrendered during the Non-cooperation Movement was
  1.    Kaiser-e-Hind
  2.    Hind Kesari
  3.    Rai Bahadur
  4.    Rt. Honourable
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Kaiser-e-Hind
Answer: (a)
By Non-cooperation Movement, Gandhi meant a peaceful rebellion. He appealed to everybody to adopt the policy of the ‘progressive, non-violent, noncooperation’ movement. The program of the Noncooperation Movement was multidimensional.
It included the surrender of all titles and government posts. The boycott program had its tremendous impact on the people of India. Gandhi himself surrendered the title of Kaiser-i-Hind. Chita Raman Das, Motilal Nehru, Rajendra Prasad; Jawaharlal Nehru, etc. left their legal practices.
Students started to boycott the government or government-aided institutions.
Question 196. Kakori conspiracy case took place in the year
  1.    1925
  2.    1920
  3.    1930
  4.    1935
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> 1925
Answer: (a)The most important “action” of the HRA (Hindustan Republican Association) was the Kakori robbery in the year 1925. The men held up the 8-Down train at Kakori, an obscure village near Lucknow and looted its official railway cash. Government crackdown after the kakori robbery led to arrests of many of whom 17 were jailed, four transported for life and four – Bismil, Ashfaqullah, Roshan Singh and Rajendra Lihiri – were hanged. Kakori proved to be a setback.
Question 197. Which of the following statement(s) is / are correct?
  1. Tinkathia system was an agreement between European planters and cultivators of Champaran which forced cultivators to cultivate indigo in 1/20th of their land holdings
  2. By the end of the 19th century, German synthetic dyes forced indigo out of the market and became a reason for Champaran Satyagraha.
Select the answer from the codes given below :
  1.    1 only
  2.    2 only
  3.    1 and 2 both
  4.    None
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> None
Answer: (d)Tinkathia system forced cultivators to cultivate indigo on 3/20th of their land holdings. European planters of Champaran were keen to release cultivators, so enhanced rent and demanded other dues as a price for the release. This aroused resentment among cultivators
Question 198. Who amongst the following made a regular broadcast on Congress radio operated during Quit India Movement?
  1.    Subhas Chandra Bose
  2.    Jay Prakash Narayan
  3.    Ram Manohar Lohia
  4.    Sucheta Kriplani
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Ram Manohar Lohia
Answer: (c)
Ram Manohar Lohia made a regular broadcast on Congress radio operated during Quit India Movement. During the Quit India Movement of 1942, Congress radio operated for about three months.
It was organized by Usha Mehta, a veteran freedom fighter of India with the help of Ham radio operators. Eminent personalities like Ram Manohar Lohia, Achyutrao Patwardhan, and Purushottam Trikamdas were also associated with Congress Radio.
Question 199. The person who on April 4, 1919 delivered a speech on Hindu-Muslim Unity from the pulpit of Jama Masjid in Delhi was
  1.    Mohammad Ali
  2.    Mahatma Gandhi
  3.    Mahamana Madan Mohan Malviya
  4.    Swami Shradhanand
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Swami Shradhanand
Answer: (d)The person who on April 4, 1919 delivered a speech on Hindu-Muslim unity from the pulpit of Jama Masjid in Delhi was Swami Shradhanand.
Question 200. Which one of the following commissions was appointed by the British Government to investigate the massacre in Jallianwala Bagh?
  1.    Simon Commission
  2.    Hunter Commission
  3.    Welby Commission
  4.    Butler Committee
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Hunter Commission
Answer: (b)
Hunter Commission was appointed by the British Government to investigate the massacre in Jallianwala Bagh. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre was followed by the establishment of a non-official inquiry committee by Congress. The British Government did not initiate such inquiry till Congress had set up such a committee.
Later, the Government established a committee headed by Lord Hunter a Senator of the “College of Justice of Scotland”.
This committee had 7 members, viz. 4 British and 3 Indians.

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