indian freedom struggle I (1857–1917) MCQs set 4 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Dadabhai Naoroji was known as the ‘Grand old Man of India’. He is regarded as India’s unofficial Ambassador in England. He was the first Indian to become a member of the British House of Commons.

Answer: (c)

Lord Curzon is best known for the partition of Bengal in 1905. The partition of Bengal into two provinces was effected on 4 July 1905. The new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam included the whole of Assam and the Dacca, Rajshahi, and Chittagong divisions of Bengal with headquarters at Dacca.

Though Curzon justified his action on administrative lines, partition divided the Hindus and Muslims in Bengal.

Answer: (b)

The revolt of 1857 spread to all the major revolt centres of north India. In the beginning, the British rule was invariably toppled at all the centres by the rebels.

Answer: (d)

Raja Rammohan Ray born in Brahmin family in Bengal on 22nd of May 1772 and died 27 September 1833. He advocated the study of English, Science, Western Medicine and Technology. He was given the title ‘Raja’ by the Mughal emperor.

Answer: (c)

Bal Gangadhar Tilak attacked the British through his weeklies, the Mahratta and the Kesari. He was jailed twice by the British for his nationalist activities and in 1908 deported to Mandalay for six years. He set up the Home Rule League in 1916 at Poona and declared “Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it.”

Answer: (c)

Annie Besant the Irish theosophist based in India since 1896, had decided to enlarge the sphere of her activities to include the building of a movement for Home Rule on the lines of the Irish Home Rule Leagues.