Free Practice Questions for History in General-studies

Maharani Gayatri Devi was a member of the Swatantra Party. 

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• Rajmata Gayatri Devi was related to the royal family of Jaipur. She was married to Maharaja Sawai Mansingh (II) of Jaipur.
• He had the distinction of winning the election from the Jaipur parliamentary constituency with the highest majority in 1962 as a candidate of the Swatantra Party founded by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari. 
• Rajmata Gayatri Devi was ranked among the ten most beautiful women in the world by Vogue magazine.  
• The Bharatiya Janata Party is the largest political party in India. The current president of this party is Jagat Prakash Nadda.
• The formation of Bharatiya Janata Party was completed on 6th April, 1980.
•  Earlier from 1977 to 1979 it was known as  Bharatiya Jana Sangh with Janata Party and before that from 1951 to 1977 as  Bharatiya Jana Sangh.
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the first national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
• The Bahujan Samaj Party was formed  by Kashiram on 14 April 1984.

The Indian National Association was established in Calcutta in 1876.

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• This association was founded by Surendranath Banerjee and Anand Mohan Bose. It was the first nationalist organization of India.
• The purpose of this association was to create public opinion in India and to unify the various Indian castes and classes on the basis of common political interests and ambitions.
• In 1885, this association was merged with Congress.

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• Badruddin Tyabji was a Congress leader and a judge of the Bombay High Court. 
• He formed an organization called Anjuman-e-Islam to promote education among Muslims in Mumbai.
• Badruddin Tyabji was the first Muslim President of the Indian National Congress.
•  He was the president of the Madras session in 1987. 
• Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar was famous as a litterateur of Poona. 
• He had started the publication of a monthly magazine named Nishammala for public awareness and public education. 
• He established a press named Chitrashala. 
•  Shri Agarkar and Mr Bal Gangadhar Tilak started the publication of a newspaper named Kesari in Marathi and Maratha in English. Shishir Kumar Ghosh was the founder of Amrit Bazar Patrika and a freedom fighter.
• He was one of the founders of the Indian League. He composed the biography of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in English.
• He established the Political Agency in England to acquaint the members of the British Parliament with the condition of India.

SSC MTS 2/11/2021 (Afternoon)

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List of Indian National Movement/Organization---

• Movement / Organization	Year
  Indian National Congress founded in	1885
  Swadeshi Movement	1905
  Muslim League founded in	1906
  Ghadar Movemen	1913
  Rowlatt Act	1919

SSC MTS 05/08/2019 (Afternoon)

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• Dwarkanath Vidyabhushan published the Somprakash newspaper from Kolkata in 1858.
• Lord Lytton had banned the Somprakash newspaper under the Vernacular Press Act.
•   This paper strongly criticized the indigo cultivators and the landlords.
• Samvad Kaumudi was a Bengali weekly newspaper published from Kolkata by Raja Rammohan Roy.
• With the help of Samvad Kaumudi, Raja Ram Mohan Roy campaigned for the abolition of sati.
• Bal Gangadhar Tilak started two nationalist newspapers, Maratha in English language and Kesari in Marathi language.
• Maratha and Kesari played an important role in the Home Rule movement.

SSC CPO 14/03/2019 (Evening)

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Indian revolutionary organizations and the names of their prominent leaders-

SSC CPO 13/12/2019 (Morning)

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• According to the Indian Independence Act of 1947, British-ruled India was divided into two parts, India and Pakistan.
• The Act received the assent of the Crown on 18 July 1947.
• The Government of India Act-1858 is also known as the Indian Administration Reforms Act.
• Under this Act, the rule of the British East India Company was ended and the responsibility of governance was handed over to the British Crown. And the post of Governor-General of India was made Viceroy. Also, Dalhousie's state usurpation policy was made ineffective.
• Government of India Act-1919 is also known as Montague-Chelmsford Reforms.
• Under this act, diarchy was established in the provinces and the communal election system was expanded. And the debate on the budget was allowed, but the right to vote was not given.

SSC CPO 16/03/2019 (Morning)

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• Medha Patkar is known as a famous social worker of India and the voice of Narmada Valley.
• Influenced by Gandhian ideology, Medha Patkar has fought for the rights of the people affected by the Sardar Sarovar Project.
• Vinoba Bhave was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi and the founder of the movement called Bhoodan Yagya.
• He is called the national teacher of India and the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi. Vinoba Bhave is the first Indian Magsaysay Award winner.
• Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar (Gujarat). International Day of Non-Violence is celebrated on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti.
• Nathuram Godse shot him dead on January 30, 1948. Therefore, 30 January is observed as International Martyrs' Day.

The Servants of India Society was founded in 1905 by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in Pune.

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• The main objective of this society is to train youth for public life and to unite and train people of different castes and religions for social welfare.
• The members of this society used to take a pledge to serve the country for life.
• The members of the Servants of India Society could not participate in the Home Rule League movement.

SSC CGL 13/06/2019 (Morning)

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• Maulana Manzoor Ahsan and Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi were political activists from Bihar.
• They was expelled from the school for opposing the Rowlatt Act.
• During the earthquake in Bihar, they dedicated themselves to the relief operation.
• Both of them participated in the Quit India movement and opposed the partition of India by the Muslim League.
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah is called the founder of Pakistan. He was the first Governor General of Pakistan.
• He is called Quaid-e-Azam i.e. Great Leader and Baba-e-Qaum i.e. Father of the Nation.
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah joined the Indian National Congress party in 1906.

SSC CPO 9/12/19 (Evening)

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• Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose called Swami Vivekananda the maker of modern India. 
• The real name of Swami Vivekananda was Narendra Nath Dutt.
• Swami Vivekananda's Guru was Ramakrishna Paramahansa. Swami Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897.
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar India laid great emphasis on women's education and widow remarriage.
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar established many women's schools including the Metropolitan School and had contributed significantly in getting the Widow Remarriage Act of 1856 passed.
• Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was the first Law Minister of independent India, the father of the Indian Constitution.
• He had established the Bahishkrit Hitkarini Sabha.

SSC-CHSL 2/07/19 -(Evening)

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List of Dalit Movements in India before Independence

• Movement	Founder	Causes and Consequences
  Nair Movement (1861)	C.V. Raman Pillay	1. It was a movement against the dominance of Brahmanical.  2.The Nair Service Society was founded by Padmanabha Pillai in 1914.
  Justice Party Movement (1916)	Dr. T.M. Nair, P. Tyagaraja Chetty and C. N. Mudaliar	1. Opposition to the dominance of Brahmins in government services, education and politics. 2. Formation of the South Indian Liberation Federation (SILF).
  Self-Respect Movement (1925)	E.V. Ramaswamy Nayak	1. There was a movement against Brahmins against the caste system and prejudiced attitudes. 2. Kudi Arasu magazine was started by Periyar in 1910.
  Depressed Classes Movement (Mahar Movement) (1924)	B.R. Ambedkar	1. Movement done for the upliftment of the deprived class. 2. Movement against untouchability. 3. Depressed Classes Institute was established in 1924. 4. Bahishkrit Bharat Namak Patrika was started in 1927 in Marathi language.

SSC-CGL 10/06/19 -(Evening)

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• Savitribai Phule was India's first female teacher and Marathi poetess.
• Along with her husband Jyotirao Phule, she did remarkable work in the field of women's rights and education.
• She is considered the forerunner of modern Marathi poetry.
• In 1852, She established a school for girls.
• She is known for educating women and the downtrodden.
• Whose objective was to get widow marriages done, to eradicate untouchability and to educate Dalit women.
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SSC-CGL 10/06/19 -(Evening)

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• Baba Amte's real name is Murlidhar Devidas Amte. He is a well-known social worker from Maharashtra, known for his service to lepers.  He went to jail in 1942 during the Quit India Movement. Baba Amte launched the Bharat Jodo movement twice in 1985 from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and in 1988 from Assam to Gujarat to promote national integration.
• Verghese Kurien, Father of the White Revolution, known as Billion Liter Idea (Operation Flood). Operation Flood has made India the largest milk producing country in the world.  Verghese Kurien was the founder of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation.
• Arvind Kejriwal is the national convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party and the Chief Minister of Delhi. He was awarded the Raman Magsaysay Award in 2006 for activating the Right to Informationmovement in India at the grassroots level, making the government accountable to the public and empowering citizens to fight corruption.

SSC MTS 22/10/2021 (Evening)

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• In 1931, the Congress session was held in Karachi, which was presided over by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
•  The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was approved in this session. And the sacrifice of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev were praised.
• The third session of the Congress was held in Madras in 1887 under the chairmanship of Syed Badruddin Tyabji . 
• Syed Badruddin Tyabji was the first Muslim president of the Congress. 
• The annual session of the Indian National Congress was held in 1929 on the banks of the Ravi river in Lahore.
• In this session, Purna Swaraj was declared the main goal of the Congress.
• Jawaharlal Nehru was elected the president of Lahore session. 
• Jawaharlal Nehru declared January 26, 1930 as India's first Independence Day.

SSC MTS 22/10/2021 (Morning)

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• Dandi March, also known as Salt March and Dandi Satyagraha,
• It was a non-violent civil disobedience movement led by Gandhiji.
• It was carried out from March 12, 1930 to April 6, 1930 in protest against the British monopoly on salt.
• Gandhiji traveled 241 miles with 78 followers from Sabarmati to the shores of Dandi on the Arabian Sea on March 12,
•  The purpose of this visit was to violate British policy by Gandhi and his supporters by making salt from sea water.
• The salt march was led by Sarojini Naidu in Dharasana.

SSC MTS 20/10/2021 (Evening)

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• Lord Kitchener came to India as Commander-in-Chief in 1902 and made many reforms in the army.
• The Indian Army was divided into two commands (Northern Command and Southern Command) by Lord Kitchener.
• He started The Kitchener Test for the efficiency of the soldiers.
• Stringer Lawrence was the first Commander-in-Chief of India.
• In 1748, he came to India to command the troops of the East India Company.
• He foiled the Duplex plan of the French conquest of South India.
• Robert Clive was the first governor to be appointed in India by the East India Company.
• The company appointed him as the governor of Bengal in 1757.
• Robert Clive is considered the founder of English rule in India.

SSC MTS 14/10/2021 (Evening)

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Causes of Movements in India:

• Peasant tyranny: Peasants in zamindari areas faced high rents,arbitrary evictions, and unpaid labor. Apart from this, the government also imposed excessive land revenue.
• Large-scale loss of Indian industries: British economic policies resulted in the decline oftraditional handicrafts and other small industries, resulting in changes in the ownership of the peasants, a heavy burden of agricultural land and debt on the peasants, and increased poverty of the peasants.
• Unfavorable Policies: The economic policies of the British government were in favor of thelandlords and moneylenders and this policy led to the exploitation of the farmers. Against this injustice, the farmers did many farmer's movement.

SSC MTS 07/10/21 (Evening)

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• Bal Gangadhar Tilak started two newspapers, Kesari in Marathi and Maratha in English.
• Tilak established Fergusson College in 1885 under the Deccan Education Society.
• He founded the Indian Home Rule League in 1916 and signed the Lucknow Pact with Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
• Bipin Chandra Pal is known as the father of revolutionary ideas.
•   Vipin Chandra Pal was part of the triumvirate of Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Vipin Chandra Pal (Lal Bal Pal).
• Bipin Chandra Pal was the founder of Vande Mataram magazine.
• Gopal Krishna Gokhale was a disciple of Mahadev Govind Ranade. He is called Gladstone of India.
• He founded the Servants of India Society in 1905.

SSC MTS 07/10/21 (Morning)

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• The Portuguese were the first Europeans to discover a direct sea route to India. On 20 May 1498, the Portuguese navigator Vasco-da-Gamareached Calicut.
• In 1505, Francisco de Almeida was made the first Portuguese governor of India. Who snatched Goa from the Sultan of Bijapur in 1510.
•  He is regarded as the real founder of the Portuguese power in India. And Goa was made the headquarters of the Portuguese settlements in India.
• His policies were called Blue Water Policy because his main objective was to control the Indian Ocean.
• The Portuguese established India's first printing press in Goa in 1556.

SSC CHSL 5/8/2021 (Afternoon)

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• Kulchandra Singh was the king of Manipur. The Anglo-Manipur war started in 1891 during his time.
• On being defeated, Kulachandra was deported to the Andaman Islands along with 22 others.
•   In his honour, Union Home Minister Amit Shahannounced the renaming of Mount Harriet of Kalapani in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to Mount Manipur.
• Nara Singh, also known as Chingthangalen Pamhiba and Meetinggu Laren Nonglen Sendreng Manik Khomba, was a ruler of the Kingdom of Manipur.
• The subjects called himEningthou Nungsiba or our beloved king.
• Raja Gambhir Singh, known as Chinglen Nongdrenkhomba, was the ruler of theKingdom of Manipur.