Q. Which of these statements is/are false regarding the Indian Association? (a) It was primarily representative of landowning interests. (b) It sought to make contacts with peasants in the countryside. (c) It was an organisation of the English educated elite. (d) All the above Ans: ...

Q. Which of the following statements are false about the project of national education? (a) Primary education was neglected by the leaders of the movement as an area of nationalist reform. (b) There was an attempt to go back to indigenous forms of education, as it was felt that western ...

Q. Which of the following statements about extremist methods used in the Swadeshi movement is false? (a) The British parliament was flooded with petitions against the partition of Bengal. (b) Those who resisted the boycott campaigns popularised by volunteer groups were socially ostracised. ...

Q. Which of the following statements is false about the partition of Bengal? (a) It was aimed at weakening the nationalist movement in Bengal. (b) It was undertaken to divide the province along religious lines. (c) It was undertaken to divide the province on linguistic lines. (d) It ...

Q. Which of the following statements is false about these congress leaders? (a) Badruddin Tyabji was made president of the third Congress to pacify Muslim apprehensions. (b) Lala Lajpat Rai was deeply influenced by the Arya Samaj in his early life. (c) Tilak defended orthodox Hindu ...

Q. Which of the following conclusions about moderates and extremists is false? (a) The colonial government remained unaffected by the moderates’ pleas. (b) Extremists wanted moderate leaders to continue to hold positions of power within the congress. (c) Moderates felt closer to the ...

Q. Which of these statements is false about the reasons for the split in the congress? (a) There were personal rivalries between moderate and extremist leaders. (b) extremists wanted to bypass democratic procedures within the congress. (c) Moderates were opposed to the boycott of British ...

Q. Which of these statements about moderates is false? 1. Most of them were well-off lawyers who had studied in Britain. 2. They wanted the British to leave India. 3. They were great admirers of British political institutions. 4. They demanded lowering the age limit for the civil ...

Q. Which of these statements is false regarding the early Congress? (a) The Congress did not clearly distance itself from the cow-protection movement or the Urdu-Hindi controversy, which were Hindu communal campaigns. (b) The Congress styled itself as a Hindu organisation. (c) The ...

Q. In which year was the All India Muslim League established? (a) 1875 (b) 1905 (c) 1906 (d) 1909 Ans: (c) 1906 Explanation: The All India Muslim League was established in the year (c) 1906. The All India Muslim League was founded on December 30, 1906, in Dhaka, present-day ...