Indian National Movement (Part-I)

Total Questions: 50

41. Assertion (A): The first ever Bill to make primary education compulsory in India was rejected in 1911. [1998]

Reason (R): Discontent would have increased if every cultivator could read.

(a) Both A and R are true but R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true

Correct Answer: (d) A is false but R is true

Solution:Ais wrong as it was in 1913 and not in 1911 that a resolution on Education Policy was moved. The government refused to take up the responsibility of compulsory education, but accepted the policy of removal of illiteracy and urged the provincial governments to take early steps to provide free elementary education to the poor and more backward sections.

The primary teacher, a handbook for teachers by NCERT states in Page no.-7 that Gokhale unsuccessfully introduced Right to education bill.

42. Assertion (A): The Congress rejected the Cripps proposals. [1998]

Reason (R): The Cripps Mission consisted solely of whites.

(a) Both A and R are true but R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true

Correct Answer: (b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A

Solution:A is right as the congress rejected the Cripps proposals as it recommendeddominionstatusinsteadofcompleteindependence after the World War II. The mission consisted solely of whites.

43. Assertion (A): Gandhi stopped the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1922. [1998]

Reason (R): Violence at Chauri-Chaura led him to stop the movement.

(a) Both A and R are true but R is the correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true

Correct Answer: (a) Both A and R are true but R is the correct explanation of A.

Solution:Gandhi started the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920. It progressed powerfully from 1920-Feb, 1922. But the attack on a local police station by angry peasants at Chauri-Chaura in Gorakhpur district of UP on Feb 5, 1922 led Gandhi to stop the movement.

44. When the Indian Muslims League was inducted into the interim government in 1946, Liyaqat Ali Khan was assigned the portfolio of: [1998]

(a) foreign affairs
(b) home
(c) finance
(d) defence

Correct Answer: (c) finance

Solution:The Interim Government was formed on September 2, 1946. With Muslim League joining the interim government, the second highest-ranking League politician Liaquat Ali Khan became the head of the Department of Finance. Abdur Rab Nishtar headed the Departments of Posts and Air and Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar headed the Department of Commerce. The Leaguenominated a Scheduled Caste Hindu politician Jogendra Nath Mandal to lead the Department of Law.

45. The Indian National Congress agreed in 1947 to the partition of the country mainly because: [1998]

(a) the principal of two-Nation theory was then acceptable to them
(b) it was imposed by the British Government and the Congress was helpless in this regard
(c) they wanted to avoid large-scale communal riots
(d) India would have otherwise lost the opportunity to attain freedom

Correct Answer: (c) they wanted to avoid large-scale communal riots

Solution:Indian National Congresshad workedhardtosecurefreedom but it came at the cost of partition. They accepted partition not because of its lust for immediate power but because of prevailing dynamics in India, which made acceptance the only practical decision. Indian National Congress wanted to avoid large-scale communal riots.

46. At the time of India's Independence, Mahatma Gandhi was: [1998]

(a) a member of Congress Working Committee
(b) not a member of the Congress
(c) the President of the Congress
(d) the General Secretary of the Congress

Correct Answer: (b) not a member of the Congress

Solution:At the time of India's independence, Mahatma Gandhi was not the member of the congress. Gandhi was trying hard in Calcutta to end the violence that had torn the nation apart. He even refused to participate in any festivities - along with his protege Abdul Ghaffar Khan.

47. 'Abinava Bharat' a secret society of revolutionaries was organised by: [1999]

(a) Khudiram Bose
(b) V.D. Savarkar
(c) Prafulla Chaki
(d) Bhagat Singh

Correct Answer: (b) V.D. Savarkar

Solution:Abinava Bharat a secret society of revolutionaries was organised in 1904 by VD Sabarkar.

48. The most short-lived of all of the Britain's constitutional experiments in India was the: [1999]

(a) Indian Council Act of 1861
(b) Indian Council Act of 1892
(c) Indian Council Act of 1909
(d) Government of India Act of 1919

Correct Answer: (c) Indian Council Act of 1909

Solution:Time span of given acts: Indian Councils Act of 1861-31 years; Indian Councils Act of 1892-17 years; Indian Councils Act of 1909-10 years; Government of India Act 1919-16 years

49. 'It made its proposals in May. It still wanted a united India. There was to be a Federal Union composed of British provinces' The above quotation is related to: [1999]

(a) Simon Commission
(b) Gandhi-Irwin Pact
(c) Cripps Mission
(d) Cabinet Mission

Correct Answer: (d) Cabinet Mission

Solution:Cabinet Mission reached Delhi on March 24, 1946. It put forward its own proposals in May 1946.

50. Which Indian nationalist leader looked upon a war between Germany and Britain as a God-sent opportunity which would enable Indians to exploit the situation to their advantage? [1999]

(a) C. Rajagopalachari
(b) M.A. Jinnah
(c) Subhash Chandra Bose
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Correct Answer: (c) Subhash Chandra Bose

Solution:S.C. Bose and the socialists argued that the war was an imperialist one since both sides were fighting for gaining or defendingcolonialterritories. Thereforethequestionofsupporting either of the two sides did not arise. Instead advantage should be taken of the situation to wrest freedom by immediately starting a Civil Disobedience Movement.

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