Indian Freedom Struggle I (1857 – 1917) Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Answer: (b)

Dayanand’s views were published in hisfamous work, Satyarth Prakash. Dayanand’s vision of India included a classless and casteless society.

Answer: (a)

Lord Dufferin was the Viceroy of India at the time of the formation of the Indian National Congress.

Answer: (b)

In 1867, Dadabhai Naoroji put forward the famous‘Drain Theory’. In 1896, in its annualsession held at Calcutta, the Indian National Congress adopted the Drain Theory by proclaiming that the famines in the country and poverty of the people had been brought on by the drain of wealth from the country.

Answer: (c)

The Rahnumai Mardyasan Sabha was founded in 1851 by a group of English educated Parsisfor the “regeneration of the social conditions of the Parsis and the restoration of the Zoroastrian religion to its pristine purity”.

Answer: (c)

Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah of Faizabad was an outstanding leader of the revolt. He was a native of Madras and had moved to Faizabad in the north where he fought a stiff battle against the British troops.