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(141) On which one of following dates did Jawaharlal Nehru unfurl the tri-color national flag on the banks of the Ravi as the clock struck the midnight ?
[A] 31st December, 1929
[B] 26th January, 1930
[C] 31st December, 1931
[D] 26th January, 1933

Comment

Answer: Option [A]

26th January 1930 was unofficial to be celebrated as the Independence Day. The flag of India was hoisted by Jawaharlal Nehru on the banks of Ravi at Lahore.

(142) Which of the following revolutionary leaders organized an attack on the armoury of Chittagong ?
[A] C.R. Das
[B] Jatin Das
[C] Chandrashekhar Azad
[D] Surya Sen

Comment

Answer: Option [D]

Surya Sen was a Bengali independence fighter who led the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid. Surya Sen, also called Surya Kumar Sen, was an Indian revolutionary who was influential in the Indian independence movement against British rule in India and is best known for leading the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid.

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(143) General Michael O'Dwyer who was responsible for Jallianwala Bagh massacre was shot dead by:
[A] Udham Singh
[B] Hasrat Mohani
[C] V.V.S. Iyer
[D] Sohan Singh Bhakna

Comment

Answer: Option [A]

General Michael O'Dwyer who was responsible for Jallianwala Bagh massacre was shot dead by Udham Singh. General Dyer, responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar, died of cerebral haemorrhage and arteriosclerosis in 1927. Michael O’Dwyer, Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab in India from 1912 until 1919, who had endorsed General Dyer’s action regarding the Amritsar massacre. Udham Singh waited 21 Years to avenge the man behind Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. He shot General Michael O'Dyer at a joint meeting.

(144) When Mahatma Gandhi set out on the Dandi march, he was accompanied, among others, by:
[A] Rajendra Prasad and Sarojini Naidu
[B] Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad
[C] Jawaharlal Nehru and Sarojini Naidu
[D] Vallabhabai Patel and Sarojini Naidu

Comment

Answer: Option [C]

When Mahatma Gandhi set out on the Dandi march, he was accompanied, among others by Jawaharlal Nehru and Sarojini Naidu.

(145) The word Adivasi was used for the first time to refer to the tribal people by:
[A] Thakkar Bappa
[B] Jyotiba Phule
[C] Mahatma Gandhi
[D] B.R. Ambedkar

Comment

Answer: Option [A]

The word was used by Thakkar Bapa to refer to inhabitants of forest in 1930s. The word was used in 1936 and included in English dictionary prepared by Pascal. The term was recognised by Markandey Katju the judge of the Supreme Court of India in 2011.

(146) Annie Besant enjoyed the Presidentship of the INC at its session held in:
[A] 1916
[B] 1917
[C] 1918
[D] 1920

Comment

Answer: Option [B]

Annie Besant was the first woman President of Indian National Congress. She presided over the 1917 Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress. She first came to India on 16 November 1893.

(147) Who was known as the political guru of Gandhiji ?
[A] Dadabhai Naoroji
[B] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[C] Lala Lajpat Rai
[D] Gopal Krishna Gokhle

Comment

Answer: Option [D]

Gopal Krishna Gokhle was known as the political guru of Gandhiji. Gopal Krishna Gokhale CIE was an Indian 'moderate' political leader and a social reformer during the Indian independence movement.

(148) On the death of Gandhiji, who said that “The light has gone out of our lives” ?
[A] Jawaharlal Nehru
[B] Dr. Rajendra Prasad
[C] Lord Mountbatten
[D] Dr. S. Radhakrishna

Comment

Answer: Option [A]

The light has gone out of our lives is a speech that was delivered ex tempore by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, on January 30, 1948, following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi earlier that evening.

(149) Which one of the following aroused a wave of popular indignation that led to the massacre by the British at Jallianwala Bagh ?
[A] The Arms Act
[B] The Rowlatt Act
[C] The Vernacular Press Act
[D] The Public Safety Act

Comment

Answer: Option [B]

Swaraj was declared as the goal of the Congress at its session held in 1906 at Calcutta. Swaraj was first articulated, in the presidential address of Dadabhai Naoroji, as the Congress's goal at its Calcutta session in 1906.

(150) Swaraj was declared as the goal of the Congress at its session held in 1906 at:
[A] Lucknow
[B] Bombay
[C] Madras
[D] Calcutta

Comment

Answer: Option [D]

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