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Congress: Benaras, Calcutta, and Surat Session

📆 October 19, 2024

Total Questions: 26

11. Dadabhai Naoroji was formally known as: [U.P. P.C.S. (Pre) 1991]

Correct Answer: (d) Grand Old Man of India
Solution:Dadabhai Naoroji, known as the Grand Old Man of India, was a Parsi intellectual, educationist, and an early Indian political and social leader. He was the first Asian elected to the House of Commons in 1892 as a liberal party Member from central Finsbury constituency in the United Kingdom. He was elected as the President of (INC) in 1886, 1893, and 1906. C.Y. Chintamani, Indian editor journalist, liberal politician, told about Dadabhai Naoroji that “Many intelligent and selfless leaders had embellished for the people of India, but in his era, no one was as the Dadabhai Naoroji.” On the other hand, Gokhale said that “if there is a God somewhere, he is Dadabhai Naoroji.”

12. Who was called the 'Grand Old Man of India'? [Uttarakhand U.D.A./L.D.A. (Pre) 2007]

Correct Answer: (a) Dadabhai Naoroji
Solution:Dadabhai Naoroji, known as the Grand Old Man of India, was a Parsi intellectual, educationist, and an early Indian political and social leader. He was the first Asian elected to the House of Commons in 1892 as a liberal party Member from central Finsbury constituency in the United Kingdom. He was elected as the President of (INC) in 1886, 1893, and 1906. C.Y. Chintamani, Indian editor journalist, liberal politician, told about Dadabhai Naoroji that “Many intelligent and selfless leaders had embellished for the people of India, but in his era, no one was as the Dadabhai Naoroji.” On the other hand, Gokhale said that “if there is a God somewhere, he is Dadabhai Naoroji.”

13. Who among the following is known by the title of “The Grand Old Man”? [U.P.R.O./A.R.O. (Pre) 2014]

Correct Answer: (c) Dadabhai Naoroji
Solution:Dadabhai Naoroji, known as the Grand Old Man of India, was a Parsi intellectual, educationist, and an early Indian political and social leader. He was the first Asian elected to the House of Commons in 1892 as a liberal party Member from central Finsbury constituency in the United Kingdom. He was elected as the President of (INC) in 1886, 1893, and 1906. C.Y. Chintamani, Indian editor journalist, liberal politician, told about Dadabhai Naoroji that “Many intelligent and selfless leaders had embellished for the people of India, but in his era, no one was as the Dadabhai Naoroji.” On the other hand, Gokhale said that “if there is a God somewhere, he is Dadabhai Naoroji.”

14. "A graduate at 18, professor and associate editor of the Sudharak at 20, Secretary of the Sarvajanik Sabha and of the Provincial Conference at 25, Secretary of the National Congress at 29, leading witness before an important Royal Commission at 31, Provincial legislator at 34, Imperial legislator at 36, President of the Indian National Congress at 39. a patriot whom Mahatma Gandhi himself regarded as his master". This is how a biographer describes: [I.A.S. (Pre) 1997]

Correct Answer: (c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Solution:Gopal Krishna Gokhale was born on May 9, 1866, in Ratnagiri (Maharashtra). He graduated from Elphinston College in 1884 and was appointed a professor of Political Economy and History at Ferguson College in Poona. Gokhale became a protege of social reformer Mahadev Govind Ranade. He was a member of the Deccan Education Society. Gokhale fought for decades to obtain greater political representation and power over public affairs for the common Indian. He first joined Congress in 1889 at the Bombay session. Gokhale became a member of the Bombay Legislative Council and then the Imperial Legislative Council. Gandhiji often referred to Gokhale as 'Mahatma.' He was the political mentor of Gandhiji.

15. Gopal Krishna Gokhale presided over the session of Congress in – [U.P. Lower Sub. (Pre) 2004 U.P. Lower Sub. (Pre) 2003]

Correct Answer: (b) 1905
Solution:Benaras Session of INC in 1905 was presided over by Gopal Krishna Gokhale. He founded Servants of India Society in 1905.

16. Who presided over the Benaras Session of the Indian National Congress in 1905: [U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 1999]

Correct Answer: (c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Solution:Benaras Session of INC in 1905 was presided over by Gopal Krishna Gokhale. He founded Servants of India Society in 1905.

17. Which of the following leaders presided over the Congress Session at Calcutta in 1906? [44 B.P.S.C (Pre) 2000]

Correct Answer: (d) Dadabhai Naoroji
Solution:In 1906, Congress was in real danger of splitting into two groups. The extremists were more popular than the moderates. Before this session, the extremists would have taken over Congress had they elected a leader among them. But it was not done. The moderates were politically intelligent. In 1906, the session at Calcutta was presided over by Dadabhai Naoroji. The moderate had chosen Naoroji to preside Congress. Naoroji, 'The Grand old man of India,' was respected by the moderates and extremists alike. In this session, the Congress adopted Swaraj as the goal of Indian people. Moderates toned down the resolution of the compromised state and made it self-Government meant obtaining the self-governing British colonies.

18. At the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress (INC) held in 1906, the Flag of Swaraj for India was unfurled by [68th B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2022]

Correct Answer: (c) Dadabhai Naoroji
Solution:At the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress (INC) held in 1906, the flag of Swaraj for India was unfurled by the president of the session Dadabhai Naoroji.

19. Congress passed the 'Swaraj' resolution in the year 1905. The purpose of the resolution was – [53rd to 55th B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2011]

Correct Answer: (e) None of the above
Solution:The Indian National Congress took up the Swaraj call in its Benaras Session, 1905 and later in 1906 Calcutta session it was fully passed. The main purpose of the resolution was "to serve self-rule" and boycotting British products and the revival of domestic products and production processes of Indian industrialization and better education policy for India.

20. Swaraj as a national demand was first made by: [Uttarakhand P.C.S. (Pre) 2009]

Correct Answer: (c) Dadabhai Naoroji
Solution:Swaraj (self-rule) was first articulated in the Presidential address of Dadabhai Naoroji as the goal of Congress in its Calcutta session in 1906.
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