Revolutionary Movements in India (Part-I)

Total Questions: 46

1. Yugantar Party was led by – [U.P.P.C.S. (Mains) 2009]

Correct Answer: (a) Jatindranath Mukherjee
Solution:A revolutionary group had been reorganizing the Yugantar Party under the leadership of Jatindranath Mukherjee (1879-1915). He is also known as 'Bagha Jatin.'

The party's newspaper, Jugantar Patrika, advocated for the use of violence against British rule. The party collected arms and explosives, and manufactured bombs.

The party organized dacoities to raise funds. The party challenged the legitimacy of British rule. The party criticized the Indian National Congress's moderate methods

2. Who had founded the 'Anushilan Samiti'? [U.P.P.C.S. (Spl) (Pre) 2008]

Correct Answer: (a) P. Mitra
Solution:Anushilan Samiti was founded at Midnapur in 1902 by Gyanendra Nath Basu. At Calcutta, the first branch was started in March 1902 by Satish Chandra Basu and the second branch in 1902 by Pramath Nath Mitra, Jatindra Nath Mukherjee (Bagha Jatin), and Barindra Nath Ghosh.

Another Anushilan Samiti was founded at Dhaka in October 1906 by Pulin Bihari Das. Hemchandra Kanungo was Assistant and Bomb expert of Calcutta Anushilan Samiti. Yugantar (weekly Newspaper) was published in 1906 under the leadership of Barindra Ghosh and Bhupendra Nath Dutta.

3. Who established a branch of Anushilan Samiti at Patna in 1913? [63rd B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2017]

Correct Answer: (c) Sachindra Nath Sanyal
Solution:Anushilan Samiti was a revolutionary organisation which believed in the path of violence. Sachindra Nath Sanyal established a branch of it in 1913 at Patna.

It urged its followers to recruit Indian soldiers for the revolutionary societies and obtain weapons from outside powers. They advocated military training and outlined guerrilla combat strategies and tactics in "Vartaman Rananiti," which was published in 1907.
Anushilan Samiti was a well-known covert revolutionary organisation that operated out of Bengal in the 20th century with the goal of removing colonial authority and igniting India's independence movement.

Aurobindo Ghose, Satish Chandra Pramatha Mitra, and Sarala Devi founded the Anushilan Samiti, one of the many distinguished organisations from the Bengali

4. Who established a branch of Anushilan Samiti in Patna in 1913 A.D.? [67th B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2022]

Correct Answer: (c) Sachindra Nath Sanyal
Solution:Anushilan Samiti was a revolutionary organisation which believed in the path of violence. Sachindra Nath Sanyal established a branch of it in 1913 at Patna.

It urged its followers to recruit Indian soldiers for the revolutionary societies and obtain weapons from outside powers. They advocated military training and outlined guerrilla combat strategies and tactics in "Vartaman Rananiti," which was published in 1907.

Anushilan Samiti was a well-known covert revolutionary organisation that operated out of Bengal in the 20th century with the goal of removing colonial authority and igniting India's independence movement.

Aurobindo Ghose, Satish Chandra Pramatha Mitra, and Sarala Devi founded the Anushilan Samiti, one of the many distinguished organisations from the Bengali

5. Activities of Barindra Ghosh had given birth of secret revolutionary organization named as – [Jharkhand P.C.S. (Pre) 2016]

Correct Answer: (a) Anushilan Samiti
Solution:Barindra Ghosh was a younger brother of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh. Barindra was influenced by Aurobindo and joined the revolutionary movement.

In the year 1905, Aurobindo Ghosh wrote the pamphlet ‘Bhawani Mandir’ about a detailed description for the formation of a centre for organizing revolutionary works and is credited for spreading revolutionary ideas in Bengal along with Bhupendra Nath Dutt. Their activities led to the formation of Anushilan Samiti, a revolutionary organization.

6. Barindra Ghosh was associated: [U.P. Lower Sub. (Pre) 2008]

Correct Answer: (a) Anushilan Samiti
Solution:Barindra Ghosh was a younger brother of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh. Barindra was influenced by Aurobindo and joined the revolutionary movement.

In the year 1905, Aurobindo Ghosh wrote the pamphlet ‘Bhawani Mandir’ about a detailed description for the formation of a centre for organizing revolutionary works and is credited for spreading revolutionary ideas in Bengal along with Bhupendra Nath Dutt. Their activities led to the formation of Anushilan Samiti, a revolutionary organization.

7. The ‘Anushilan Samiti’ was – [47th B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2005]

Correct Answer: (d) a revolutionary organization
Solution:Barindra Ghosh was a younger brother of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh. Barindra was influenced by Aurobindo and joined the revolutionary movement.

In the year 1905, Aurobindo Ghosh wrote the pamphlet ‘Bhawani Mandir’ about a detailed description for the formation of a centre for organizing revolutionary works and is credited for spreading revolutionary ideas in Bengal along with Bhupendra Nath Dutt. Their activities led to the formation of Anushilan Samiti, a revolutionary organization.

8. Barindra Ghosh was associated with which of the following? [U.P.P.C.S. (Mains) 2016]

Correct Answer: (b) Anushilan Samiti
Solution:Barindra Ghosh was a younger brother of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh. Barindra was influenced by Aurobindo and joined the revolutionary movement.

In the year 1905, Aurobindo Ghosh wrote the pamphlet ‘Bhawani Mandir’ about a detailed description for the formation of a centre for organizing revolutionary works and is credited for spreading revolutionary ideas in Bengal along with Bhupendra Nath Dutt. Their activities led to the formation of Anushilan Samiti, a revolutionary organization.

9. When did Bal Gangadhar Tilak get the title Lokamanya? [U.P.P.C.S. (Mains) 2012]

Correct Answer: (b) Revolutionary movement
Solution:In June 1897, the Chapekar brothers attacked Rand, the president of the Plague Committee of Poona and killed Lieutenant Ayerst. It was alleged that the Brahmins of Poona, under the leadership of Tilak, had conspired in the murder of Rand and Ayerst. In July 1897, Tilak was arrested on charges of sedition under section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code.

He was prosecuted and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment, which caused huge protests across the country. For this reason, Tilak became popular as an all India leader and the public gave him the title of 'Lokmanya.'

10. The Barrah dacoity was the first major venture of the revolutionary terrorists of the freedom movement in: [I.A.S. (Pre) 1995]

Correct Answer: (c) East Bengal
Solution:Pulin Behari Das, who founded the National School in Dhaka with the objective to develop a revolutionary army, also planned and conducted Barrah Dacoity at the Barrah Zamindar’s residence in the district of Dhaka in East Bengal in the year 1908.