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  1. The “Arya Samaj” was founded by

  2. A.

    Swami Dayananda Saraswati

    B.

    Swami Vivekananda

    C.

    Keshav Chandra Sen

    D.

    Ishwar Chandra Vidya-Sagar


  3. Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Started an Urdu Weekly, The Al-Hilal in 1912 but on its being banned by the Government he founded at AlBalagh in

  4. A.

    1913

    B.

    1914

    C.

    1915

    D.

    1916


  5. High courts were established in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in

  6. A.

    1935

    B.

    1919

    C.

    1862

    D.

    1861


  7. Which of the following reform movements was the first to be started in the 19th Century?

  8. A.

    Prathana Samaj

    B.

    Brahmo Samaj

    C.

    Arya Samaj

    D.

    Rama Krishna Mission


  9. Who was the President of Indian National congress when the Mountbatten Plan of independence was accepted?

  10. A.

    Jawaharlal Nehru

    B.

    Sardar Patel

    C.

    Maulana Azad

    D.

    Acharya J.B. Kripalani


  11. Who said that 'the real seat of taste is not the tongue but the mind.”?

  12. A.

    Aurobindo Ghosh

    B.

    Mahatma Gandhi

    C.

    Bal Gangadhar Tilak

    D.

    Swami Vivekananda


  13. When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, who said, “None will believe that a man like this in body and soul ever walked on this earth.”?

  14. A.

    Bertrand Russell

    B.

    Leo Tolstoy

    C.

    Albert Einstein

    D.

    Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan


  15. In violation of the Salt Laws, Gandhiji started a movement called

  16. A.

    Non-Cooperation movement

    B.

    Swadeshi Movement

    C.

    Civil Disonbedience movement

    D.

    None of the above


  17. The first to come and last to leave India were

  18. A.

    The Portuguese

    B.

    The French

    C.

    The English

    D.

    The Dutch


  19. Who was the first Muslim President of the Indian National congress?

  20. A.

    Muhammad Ali Jinnah

    B.

    Badruddin Tyabji

    C.

    Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan

    D.

    Abul Kalam Azad