1. The first phase of revolutionary activities in India (1907–1917) emerged as a byproduct of which movement?
2. The revolutionaries of the first phase (1907–1917) drew their methodology mainly from the example of which two groups?
3. Consider the following statements regarding the ideology of the first-phase revolutionaries:
(I) They aimed to create a violent mass revolution throughout the country as their primary strategy
(II) They intended to strike terror in the hearts of rulers through individual heroic actions
(III) They planned to organise military conspiracies with help from Britain's enemies during the First World War
Which of the above is/are correct?
4. The first revolutionary groups in Bengal were organised in 1902 in Midnapore and Calcutta. Who founded the Midnapore group?
5. The Anushilan Samiti, founded in Calcutta in 1902, was established by whom?
6. The revolutionary weekly *Yugantar* was started in April 1906 by an inner circle within which organisation?
7. In 1908, Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose threw a bomb intended for the sadistic judge Kingsford at Muzaffarpur, but instead killed:
8. The Alipore conspiracy case (also called the Manicktolla bomb conspiracy) resulted in which outcome for Aurobindo Ghosh?
9. During the Alipore conspiracy trial, the approver-turned-Crown witness who was shot dead in jail by two co-accused was:
10. The 1908 Barrah dacoity, organised to raise funds for revolutionary activities, was carried out under whose leadership?
11. The 1912 bomb attack on Viceroy Hardinge at Chandni Chowk, Delhi, leading to the Delhi Conspiracy trial, was staged by:
12. Jatindranath Mukherjee, popularly known as Bagha Jatin, died in a police gunfight in September 1915 at:
13. "We shall die to awaken the nation" was the call given by:
14. Consider the following pairs of revolutionary newspapers and their region of publication:
(I) Yugantar – Bengal
(II) Sandhya – Bengal
(III) Kal – Maharashtra
Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
15. In Maharashtra, the Ramosi Peasant Force, aimed at instigating an armed revolt by disrupting communication lines, was organised in 1879 by:
16. Tilak propagated militant nationalism during the 1890s through which two festivals?
17. The Chapekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna, murdered the Plague Commissioner of Poona in 1897. Who was he?
18. Savarkar and his brother organised a secret society called Mitra Mela in 1899, which later merged in 1904 with:
19. A.M.T. Jackson, the Collector of Nasik, was killed in 1909 by Anant Lakshman Kanhere, a member of:
20. In the Punjab, Lala Lajpat Rai brought out a newspaper with the motto of "self-help at any cost." What was it called?
21. Ajit Singh organised the extremist Anjuman-i-Mohisban-i-Watan in Lahore, publishing a journal called:
22. Extremism in Punjab declined quickly after the government banned political meetings and deported which two leaders in May 1907?
23. Shyamji Krishnavarma started the Indian Home Rule Society ('India House') in London in 1905, along with a journal called:
24. Madanlal Dhingra, a member of the India House circle, assassinated the India Office bureaucrat Curzon-Wyllie in which year?
25. London became too dangerous for revolutionaries particularly after which leader was extradited and transported for life in 1910 in the Nasik conspiracy case?
26. Madam Bhikaji Cama, a Parsi revolutionary who operated from Paris and Geneva, brought out a journal called:
27. After 1909, when Anglo-German relations deteriorated, which revolutionary chose Berlin as his base?
28. The Ghadr Party was organised around a weekly newspaper with headquarters at:
29. Consider the following statements regarding the Ghadr revolutionaries:
(I) They were mainly ex-soldiers and peasants who had migrated from Punjab to the USA and Canada
(II) The 'Swadesh Sevak Home' was set up at Vancouver and 'United India House' at Seattle before the Ghadr's formal establishment
(III) The Ghadr Party was finally established in the year 1911
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
30. The Ghadr programme included all of the following EXCEPT:
31. The Komagata Maru, a ship carrying mainly Sikh and Punjabi Muslim would-be immigrants, was turned back by Canadian authorities and finally anchored at Calcutta in which month/year?
32. The clash between Komagata Maru passengers and police near Calcutta, in which 22 persons died, occurred at:
33. The Ghadrites fixed a date for an armed revolt in the Ferozepur, Lahore, and Rawalpindi garrisons, but the plan was foiled due to treachery. What was the fixed date?
34. The Defence of India Act, passed in March 1915, was primarily intended to:
35. Following the failure of the 1915 Ghadr revolt plan, Rashbehari Bose fled to which country?
36. The Berlin Committee for Indian Independence, established in 1915 with German foreign office help under the 'Zimmerman Plan', included Virendranath Chattopadhyay, Bhupendranath Dutta, and:
37. A mission under Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, Barkatullah, and Obaidullah Sindhi went to Kabul to organise a 'provisional Indian government' with the help of which crown prince?
38. The mutiny of February 15, 1915 by the Punjabi Muslim 5th Light Infantry and the 36th Sikh battalion, crushed after a fierce battle, took place at:
39. Which of the following factors contributed to the temporary decline in revolutionary activity after the First World War?
40. During the First World War, the nationalist response was three-fold. Which group supported the war effort believing Britain would repay India's loyalty with self-government?
41. The Home Rule Movement was modelled on a similar movement in which country?
42. Annie Besant campaigned for self-government through her newspapers, one of which was called:
43. Tilak set up his Indian Home Rule League in April 1916, with its headquarters at:
44. Annie Besant set up her All-India Home Rule League in September 1916 in which city?
45. Who served as the organising secretary of Annie Besant's All-India Home Rule League?
46. Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who joined the Home Rule agitation, led which division of Besant's league?
47. Consider the following statements regarding groups that stayed away from the Home Rule agitation:
(I) Anglo-Indians largely did not join the agitation
(II) Most Muslims and non-Brahmins from the South did not join, fearing Home Rule would mean high-caste Hindu majority rule
(III) The Servants of India Society as a body officially opposed the Home Rule Leagues
Which of the above is/are correct?
48. In June 1917, Annie Besant and her associates B.P. Wadia and George Arundale were arrested. In protest, who renounced his knighthood?
49. Annie Besant, arrested in June 1917, was released in which month?
50. Which of the following was NOT among the reasons for the decline of the Home Rule agitation by 1919?
51. Tilak went abroad in September 1918 in connection with a libel case against the author of the book *Indian Unrest*. Who was this author?
52. In 1920, Gandhi accepted the presidentship of the All India Home Rule League and changed its name to:
53. The Lucknow Session of the Indian National Congress in 1916, which readmitted the Extremists, was presided over by:
54. Consider the following statements regarding factors that facilitated the Moderate-Extremist reunion at Lucknow (1916):
(I) Old controversies between the two groups had become largely meaningless by then
(II) The death of Gokhale and Pherozshah Mehta, leaders of Moderate opposition to the Extremists, facilitated the reunion
(III) The British government formally mediated the reconciliation
Which of the above is/are correct?
55. Under the Lucknow Pact between the Congress and the Muslim League, the Congress accepted the League's position on:
56. Under the Lucknow Pact's joint demands, how many years was the proposed term of the legislative council?
57. The Lucknow Pact demanded that half the members of the Viceroy's and provincial governors' executive councils should be:
58. Montagu's August 1917 statement was made by whom, in his capacity as Secretary of State for India?
59. Consider the following statements on the Indian objections to Montagu's August 1917 statement:
(I) No specific time frame was given for attaining self-government
(II) The government alone was to decide the nature and timing of advance towards responsible government
(III) The statement explicitly ruled out any Indian majority in future legislatures
Which of the above is/are correct?
60. After Montagu's 1917 declaration, in order to make the executive responsible in some measure to elected assemblies, the concept that was evolved was known as:
