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Savarkar believed in attaining freedom through ____________ means.

  1. Satyagraha

  2. Peaceful agitation

  3. Revolutionary

  4. None


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Veer Savarkar was a revolutionary nationalist born on 28th May 1883. Savarkar's revolutionary activities began while studying in India and England, where he was associated with the India House and founded student societies including Abhinav Bharat Society and the Free India Society, as well as publications espousing the cause of complete Indian independence by revolutionary means. Savarkar published The Indian War of Independence about the Indian rebellion of 1857 that was banned by British authorities. He was arrested in 1910 for his connections with the revolutionary group India House. Following a failed attempt to escape while being transported from Marseilles, Savarkar was sentenced to two life terms of imprisonment totaling fifty years and was moved to the Cellular Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but released in 1921.

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was published by ___________.

  1. Mahatma Gandhi

  2. Bhagat Singh

  3. Lala Lajpat Rai

  4. Veer Savarkar


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Veer Savarkar was a revolutionary nationalist born on 28th May 1883. Savarkar's revolutionary activities began while studying in India and England, where he was associated with the India House and founded student societies including Abhinav Bharat Society and the Free India Society, as well as publications espousing the cause of complete Indian independence by revolutionary means. Savarkar published The Indian War of Independence about the Indian rebellion of 1857 that was banned by British authorities. He was arrested in 1910 for his connections with the revolutionary group India House. Following a failed attempt to escape while being transported from Marseilles, Savarkar was sentenced to two life terms of imprisonment totaling fifty years and was moved to the Cellular Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but released in 1921.

Savarkar was released from jail in the year _______.

  1. 1889

  2. 1905

  3. 1910

  4. 1921


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Veer Savarkar was a revolutionary nationalist born on 28th May 1883. Savarkar's revolutionary activities began while studying in India and England, where he was associated with the India House and founded student societies including Abhinav Bharat Society and the Free India Society, as well as publications espousing the cause of complete Indian independence by revolutionary means. Savarkar published The Indian War of Independence about the Indian rebellion of 1857 that was banned by British authorities. He was arrested in 1910 for his connections with the revolutionary group India House. Following a failed attempt to escape while being transported from Marseilles, Savarkar was sentenced to two life terms of imprisonment totaling fifty years and was moved to the Cellular Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but released in 1921.

Of the following who was not the leader of the Extremists?

  1. Lokamanya Tilak

  2. Aurobindo Ghose

  3. Lala Lajpat Rai

  4. A.O. Hume


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The Congress split into two parts-Moderates and Extremists in the year 1907 at the Surat Session of Congress. Moderates aimed at administrative and constitutional reforms while Extremists aimed at nothing short of swaraj as it existed in the United Kingdom and its self-governing colonies. Some of the extremists leaders were Bala Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpat Rai, Aurobindo Ghosh. A.O. Hume did not belong to the Extremists group but was a moderate leader during the first phase (1885-1905) of INC.

____________ was the first secret organisation.

  1. Mitramela

  2. Abhinav Bharat Society

  3. India house

  4. Free India Society


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Veer Savarkar was a revolutionary nationalist born on 28th May 1883. Savarkar's revolutionary activities began while studying in India and England, where he was associated with the India House and founded student societies including Abhinav Bharat Society and the Free India Society, as well as publications espousing the cause of complete Indian independence by revolutionary means. Savarkar published The Indian War of Independence about the Indian rebellion of 1857 that was banned by British authorities. He was arrested in 1910 for his connections with the revolutionary group India House. Following a failed attempt to escape while being transported from Marseilles, Savarkar was sentenced to two life terms of imprisonment totaling fifty years and was moved to the Cellular Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but released in 1921.

Of the following who died as political prisoner in Lahore prison?

  1. Bhagat Singh

  2. Batukeshwar Dutt

  3. Jatin Das

  4. Sukh Dev


Correct Option: C

V.D Savarkar was sentenced to _______ life term/s of imprisonment.

  1. 1

  2. 2

  3. 3

  4. 4


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Veer Savarkar was a revolutionary nationalist born on 28th May 1883. Savarkar's revolutionary activities began while studying in India and England, where he was associated with the India House and founded student societies including Abhinav Bharat Society and the Free India Society, as well as publications espousing the cause of complete Indian independence by revolutionary means. Savarkar published The Indian War of Independence about the Indian rebellion of 1857 that was banned by British authorities. He was arrested in 1910 for his connections with the revolutionary group India House. Following a failed attempt to escape while being transported from Marseilles, Savarkar was sentenced to two life terms of imprisonment totaling fifty years and was moved to the Cellular Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but released in 1921.

The Ghadar Party took the name from ___________.

  1. The Revolt of $1857$

  2. Ist objective to wage another revolt

  3. A weekly paper Ghadar published in commemoration of the Revolt of $1857$

  4. All the above


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Sikhs and Hindu Punjabis in USA started Ghadr movement to free India from British rule in early 1900's. It took the name from a weekly paper Ghadar published in commemoration of the Revolt of 1857. It was founded by Sohan Singh Bhakna and Lala Hardayal. Its aim was to get rid of the colonial super-power by means of an armed struggle and to set up a national democratic government on the sub-continent. 

The earliest nationalist to commit political dacoities (a feature of the later revolutionary movements) was _______.

  1. Jyotiba Phule

  2. Chapekar brothers

  3. Vasudev Balwant Phadke

  4. Yatindra Das


Correct Option: C

The Act of ___________ had introduced the system of separate electorates.

  1. $1874$

  2. $1893$

  3. $1909$

  4. $1926$


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The Indian Councils Act 1909 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that brought about a limited increase in the involvement of Indians in the governance of British India. It introduced a system of communal representation for Muslims by accepting the concept of ‘separate electorate’. The act was also called Morley-Minto Reforms and it was formulated by John Morley, secretary of state for India.