Who is considered as the main architect of the constitution of India?
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar
Who designed our national flag?
Pingali Venkayya
On independence day, who hoist the flag at national level event?
Prime Minister
Who was the last Viceroy of India?
Lord Mountbatten
During the first census held after independence, how much was the total population of the country?
6 Crore
When was Pakistan Resolution adopted by muslim league?
24 March 1940
Who was
the Governor General of India when the first war of India’s independence broke
out in 1857?
Lord Canning
The first session of the Indian National
Congress was presided over by:
Womesh Chander Banerjee
Who set up the Indian Independence League?
Rash Bihari Bose
Who once remarked“ Nehru is patriot while Jinnah
is a Politician”
Mohammed Iqbal
Where was the Civil disobedience movement
launched in1922?
Bardoli
When was the Non-Cooperation movement suspended?
1922
Which movement marked Gandhiji’s entry into
national politics?
Champaran Movement
The first weekly paper published by the Indian
National Congress in 1889?
Voice of India
Who is the founder of Ghadar party?
Lala Hardayal
Name of the commission which was appointed by
the British Government to probe the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre?
The Hunter Commission.
When was Indian Independence Act 1947 given royal assent?
18 July 1947
Who was the most prominent leader in the formation of Pakistan?
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
‘Vande Mataram’ was first sung during which session of INC?
1896
Who was the founder of Banaras Hindu University (BHU)?
Madan Mohan Malaviya
Who established Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)?
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
Who was Lal in ‘Lal Bal Pal’?
Lala Lajpat Rai
In which year the First Round Table Conference was held?
1930
When was Quit India Movement started?
1942
The international border between India-Pakistan along Punjab is known as which line?
Radcliffe Line
Which of the following songs is the national anthem of India?
Jana Gana Mana
In which year was New Delhi made capital of India?
13 February 1931
Who killed Mahatma Gandhi and when did he killed him?
Nathuram Godse, 30 Jan 1948
When was Kartar Singh Sarabha executed?
1915
Who was the first Indian Governor-General of India?
C. Rajagopalachari
Which date is known as Direct Action Day in british India’s history?
16 August 1946
In which
act, the rule of East India Company ended in India?
Govt. of India Act, 1858
The Kakinada session of the Indian National
Congress, which inspired the launch of the Vaikom Satyagraha , was held in :
1923
The Cripps Mission visited India during the
regime of :
Lord Linlithgow
Who
founded the Indian League?
Shishir Kumar Ghose
The famous INA trials took place at the Red
Fort,Delhi in?
1945
Who wrote the book “The origin of the Indian
National Congress”?
Pattabhi Sita Ramayya
Who was the leader of the Revolt of 1857 at
Jagadishpur?
Kunwar Singh
“The congress is in reality a civil war without
arms” Who said this?
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
The second visit of Simon Commission was in?
1929
Name the viceroy of India when the Rowlatt Act
was repealed?
Lord Reeding
Who was the president of the Indian National
Congress in the Gaya Session of 1922?
C.R.Das
When did Gandhiji start the Sabarmati Ashram?
1916
Which one was the first major battle fought by British East India company?
Answer : Battle of Plassey
During which movement Mahatama Gandhi gave the call for ‘Do or Die’?
Quit India Movementt
What was the name of the magazine published by M.K. Gandhi?
Young India
What was the name of the mission sent by british government to India to seek cooperation during World War II?
Cripps Mission
East India Company started trade with India from which city?
Surat
Who wrote this slogan “Self-Rule is my birthright and I shall have it”?
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Who was the founder president of ‘Ghadar Party’?
Sohan Singh Bhakna
Which of the following Indian freedom fighters killed a british officer in Britain?
Udham Singh
The picture shown below is associated with which movement or event of freedom struggle?
Dandi March
What does the three colours of national flag represent?
Sacrifice, Peace and Prosperity
Who was the first to describe the mutiny of
1857 as the first war of independence?
Vinayak Samodar Savarkar
Who was elected as the President of All India Khilafat
Conference held in Delhi in 1919?
Mahatma Gandhi
Which renowned musician sung the famous song “Raghupathi
Raghav Rajaram” during the Dandi march?
Vishnu Digambar Paluskar
Who founded the “All India Harijan Samaj” in
1932?
Mahatma Gandhi
Who gave the slogan “Dilli Chalo” or “Marchto
Delhi”?
Subhash Chandra Bose
Who presided over the Cabinet Mission?
Sir. P.Lawrence
In which session of Indian National Congress,
the moderates and extremists sections of congress reunited?
1916 Lucknow
When was the English East India Company
established?
1600 A.D
Which incident provoked Gandhiji to suspend the
Civil Disobedience Movement?
Chauri Chaura incident
Who wrote the book “India’s First War of
Independence”?
Vinayak Samodar Savarkar
According to States Reorganization Act 1956, how many states and union territories (UTs) were created?
14 States, 5 UTs
When and who laid the foundation stone of New Delhi?
King George V, 1911
When was ‘first war of independence’ fought?
1857
Which Indian city is known as City of Prime Ministers?
Allahabad
Who was the main architect to design New Delhi?
Edwin Lutyens
Who was the first President of India and when did he bacame the President?
Mahatma Gandhi, 1950
What was the agenda of the Round Table
Conference (1930-1932)?
Discuss the Simon Commission Report
At which session of the Indian National Congress
was “Vande Mataram” sung for the firsttime?
1896 Session
Who gave the slogan” Give me blood and I promise
you freedom”?
Subhash Chandra Bose
When did the Government of the English East
India Company come to anend?
1858 A.D
Where did the Congress Working committee first
accept the idea of the Quit India Movement?
Wardha
When did Indian National Congress adopt the
resolution of “self Government” for the first time?
1906
Which leader died on the day the Non cooperation
movement was launched in1920?
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
In 1938, Subhash Chandra Bose was elected as the
president of Indian National Congress defeating Gandhiji’s candidate. Who was
this candidate?
Pattabhi Sita Ramayya
Who is the only Keralite to become the President
of Indian National Congress?
Chettur Sankaran Nair
Which year onwards Gandhi Jayanthi is celebrated
as international nonviolence day?
2007
The only national leader who was infavour of the
Cripp’s plan and the acceptance of the
principle of Pakistan?
C.Rajagopalachari
Which session of Indian National Congress passed
resolution on national economic programme and on fundamental rights and duties?
Karachi session of 1931
Who was proclaimed as the emperor of India
during the great Indian Mutiny of 1857?
Bahadur Shah II
When did Indian National Congress adopt a
resolution demanding complete independence for the first time?
1929
Who was the viceroy of India when Montague-
Chelmsford reforms were introduced?
Lord Chelmsford
What is the nick name of the English East India
Company?
John Company
Who was the Prime Minister of Britain during the
Revolt of 1857?
Lord Palmerstone
Where was the Provisional Government of
Independent India (Azad Hind)formed?
Singapore
When did Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India?
1498
Which of the following financial institution/bank was founded was Lala Lajpat Rai?
Punjab National Bank
Which of the following freedom fighters was sentenced to death for his involvement in Kakori Train Robbery?
Ashfaqulla Khan
14.The rebellion of 1857 started from which city?
Answer :Meerut
Who put forward the theory of ‘Drain of Wealth’?
Dadabhai Naoroji
The patriotic poem ‘Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna’ was written by ?
Ram Prasad Bismil
Who was the first Indian revolutionary to assassinate a British official in England?
Madan Lal Dhingra
Which of the following Pakistani citizen is awarded Bharat Ratna?
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Which of the following revolutionaries threw bombs at Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi?
Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt
‘Tum mujhe khoon do, mein tumhe azadi doonga’ was said by which of the following persons?
Subhash Chandra Bose
Who will raise the flag during national level Independence day function in 2017 at Red Fort?
Narendra Modi
This year (2018), who will raise the flag during national level Republic Day function in New Delhi?
Ram Nath Kovind
On 15 August 1947, who raised the national flag during independence day event at Red Fort?
Jawaharlal Nehru
During the British Raj, which law or section was often used against the newspapers?
Section 124 A of IPC
The ‘India Gate’ was built in the memory of which person or event?
Soldiers killed during First World War
The splitting of Congress into two groups in the year 1907 is generally referred by which of the following names?
Surat Split
Who formed Indian National Army (INA)?
Mohan Singh
Which Indian citizen was conferred Nishan-e-Pakistan?
Morarji Desai
Who wrote the poem Saare Jahan Se Achha?
Muhammad Iqbal
Who wrote the famous book ‘India Wins Freedom’?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
What is the motto of Indian Army?
Service Before Self
National Martyrs Memorial is situated at which place of Punjab?
Hussainiwala
Which mughal emperor gave the rights to East India Company to built trading posts and factory at Surat?
Jahangir
The ‘Gateway of India’ was built to commemorate which event?
Landing of King George V in India
Shaheed Sukhdev, a prominent freedom fighter, was born in which city?
Ludhiana
Which was the first European country to start trade with India first?
Portugal
The word ‘socialist secular’ were added to the Preamble of the constitution by which amendment?
42nd Amendment
When did the Jallianwala Bagh massacre occured?
1919
Which social reformer is known of his efforts for abolition of Sati?
Raja Rammohan Roy
Who is the author of the famous book ‘The Discovery of India’?
Jawaharlal Nehru
The independent legislative assemblies in all provinces of British India were established by which act?
Government of India Act 1935
‘Why Am I An Atheist’ was written by which Indian freedom fighter?
Bahadur Shah Zafar
There is a blue wheel at the center of the national flag. What does it represent?
Wheel of law
When was the declaration of Purna Swaraj released?
26 January 1930
When was Shaheed Bhagat Singh born?
September, 1907
On the Republic Day, flag ceremony is held at which place?
Rajpath
When did The Constituion of India came into effect?
26 November 1949
Who was the Bal in Lal, Bal, Pal?
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Who was the first President of Independent India?
Rajendra Prasad
The first Indian National Army was founded by
Capt Mohan Singh
Who is the author of the National Anthem of India?
Rabindranath Tagore
What does the blue wheel that appears in the Indian national flag stand for?
The wheel of law of justice
Who gave the slogan “Give me blood and I shall give you freedom”?
Subhash Chandra Bose
Who gave the slogan “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it”?
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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