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Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak Hailed form ___________.

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  1. Bengal

  2. Jammu & Kashmir

  3. Maharashtra

  4. Tamil Nadu

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Bal Gangadhar Tilak, born on 23 July 1856 at Chikhali, Maharashtra was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer, lawyer and an independence activist. He was a brilliant politician as well as a profound scholar who believed that independence is the foremost necessity for the well being of a nation. The British Government termed him as the "Father of Indian Unrest".

'Anthology of the Bomb' was written by ____________.

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  1. Tilak

  2. Bipin Chandra Pal

  3. Gokhale

  4. Annie Besant

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Correct Option: B

Which of the following is not true about Bal Gangadhar Tilak?

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  1. He wrote Gita Rahasya

  2. He started Ganpati Festval in 1893

  3. He launched a newspaper Kesari in English

  4. He started home rule league in 1916

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Correct Option: C

Tilak called _________ as the 'Diamond of India' the 'jewel of Maharashtra' and the 'Prince of Workers'.

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  1. Lajpat Rai

  2. Shivaji

  3. Gokhale

  4. Madhav Rao

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Correct Option: C

After independence, whose statue was erected in Andaman jail?

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  1. Khudiram Bose

  2. Bhagat Singh

  3. V.D Savarkar

  4. Rajguru

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The statue of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was erected in the Port Blair's Shaheed Park along with the eight other martyrs of the Andaman cellular jail. V.D savarkar was sentenced to imprisonment of fifty years on July 4, 1911 but was released from jail in 1921 after several mercy petitions to the British government.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar set up the first secret organization 'Mitra Mela' in _________. 

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  1. 1885

  2. 1889

  3. 1895

  4. 1899

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

 V.D. Savarkar established a secret revolutionary society ‘Mitra Mela’, in Nasik in 1899  It was one among the several revolutionary societies functioning at that time, which believed in the overthrow of British rule through armed rebellion.

Who set up the first secret organization 'Mitra Mela'?

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  1. V.D Savarkar

  2. Khudiram Bose

  3. Bhagat Singh

  4. Chandra Sekhar Azad

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

In 1899, V.D. Savarkar and his brother Ganesh Savarkar established a secret revolutionary society ‘Mitra Mela’, which influenced the members to fight for “absolute political independence” of India.

Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru were hanged in _________.

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  1. Andaman jail

  2. Poona jail

  3. Lahore Central jail

  4. Madras jail

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Correct Option: C

Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev bombed central legislative assembly in the year of ________.

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  1. 1927

  2. 1928

  3. 1929

  4. 1931

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev bombed central legislative assembly in New Delhi on 8 April 1929 against the passage of the Public Safety Bill and the Trade Disputes Bill which would reduce the civil liberties of citizens.  The aim was to make the deaf hear not to kill.

Who was the leader of Ghadar Party?

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  1. Bhagat Singh

  2. Lala Hardayal

  3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  4. V.D. Savarkar

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Ghadar party was an extremist revolutionary organisation founded by Sikhs in the US and Canada with the aim of securing India's independence from British rule. It was founded by Lala Hardayal and Sohan Singh Bhakna in the year 1913. The party had its headquarters in San Francisco. Its key members were Bhai Parmanand, Kartar Singh Sarabha, Abdul Hafiz Mohamed Barakatullah, Rashbehari Bose and Gulab Kaur.