indian freedom struggle I (1857–1917) MCQs set 1 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Surendranath was one of the most important public leaders who protested the partition of the Bengal province in 1905.

Answer: (d)

The Queen’s proclamation announced in 1858. The first Delhi Durbar was organised in 1877. First Factory Act passed in 1881. The Ilbert Bill had unleashed a vitriolic controversy in 1884.

Answer: (c)

It was at the beginning of the twentieth century that the 1857 revolt came to be interpreted as a “planned war of national independence”, by V.D. Savarkar in his book, First War of Indian Independence.

Answer: (b)

D.K. Karve established the first women’s university in India. After reading about the Japan Women’s University, Karve was inspired to set up the first women's university in India in Pune in the year 1916. The University started with just five students.

The University expanded rapidly when in 1920 an industrialist and philanthropist, Sir Vithaldas Thackersey, donated 1.5 million rupees.

Answer: (b)

In the period of Lord Canning, the Indian Penal Code, Civil Procedure Code, and Criminal Code were passed. The First Law Commission was established in 1834 by the British Government under the Chairmanship of Lord Macaulay.

It suggested various enactments to the British Government, most of which were passed and enacted and are still in force in India. Few of the most important recommendations made by this First Law Commission were those on, Indian Penal Code (first submitted in 1837 but enacted in 1860 and still in force), Criminal Procedure Code (enacted in 1898, repealed and succeeded by the Criminal Procedure Code of 1973), etc.

Answer: (c)

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar had founded the society called Mitra Mela (Friends’ Group) which later became Abhinav Bharat (Young India Society) on the model of the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini’s ‘Young Italy’.