indian freedom struggle I (1857–1917) MCQs set 5 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

The first official history of Indian National Congress was written by Pattabhi Sitarammaya.

Answer: (c)

Dayanand Saraswati gave the slogan “Back to the Vedas”. He took inspiration from the Vedas and considered them to be “India’s Rock of Ages”, the infallible and the true original seed of Hinduism.

Answer: (d)

The Congress session of 1892 was not held in Bombay. Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee or Umesh Chandra Banerjee was the president of the Indian National Congress again in the 1892 session in Allahabad where he denounced the position that India had to prove her worthiness for political freedom.

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: (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: (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.