1. Who was the president of the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee whose main area of work lay in organising the youth and the trade union movement?
2. Along with Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhash Bose opposed which report that spoke for dominion status for India?
3. In which year was Subhash Bose elected president of the Congress session held at Haripura, Gujarat?
4. In the 1939 Congress presidential election, Subhash Bose defeated the candidate supported by Gandhi. Who was that candidate?
5. Consider the following statements regarding the 1939 Tripuri Congress session:
(I) It was held in the Central Provinces, near Jabalpur.
(II) Subhash Bose gave a call for a mass civil disobedience movement if a six-month ultimatum to Britain was rejected.
(III) A resolution moved by Govind Ballabh Pant asked Bose to nominate the working committee in accordance with Gandhi's wishes.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
6. Who moved the resolution at the Tripuri session asking Bose to nominate the working committee "in accordance with the wishes of Gandhiji"?
7. In which month and year did Subhash Bose resign from the post of Congress president?
8. Who was elected Congress president following Subhash Bose's resignation in 1939?
9. The Forward Bloc, formed by Subhash Bose and his followers as a new party within the Congress, was established at which place?
10. In August 1939, disciplinary action was taken against Bose by the Congress Working Committee after he called for an all-India protest on July 9 against an AICC resolution. What was one consequence of this action?
11. What title did Gandhi give to Subhash Bose in 1942?
12. In a 1944 radio broadcast from Rangoon, Subhash Bose referred to Gandhi by which title?
13. Gandhi objected to violence primarily on the grounds that an unarmed populace had little chance of success in armed rebellion and that it left behind hatred that could not be overcome through reconciliation. Which term describes Gandhi's core method of struggle based on truth and non-violence, used together as one concept?
14. Bose's own coinage for a synthesis of Socialism and Fascism suited to India was:
15. On October 21, 1943, Subhash Bose proclaimed the formation of which government, in which he named himself head of state, prime minister, and minister for war and foreign affairs?
16. Gandhi's concept of an idealised, utopian state — built on truth and non-violence, without a representative government, constitution, army, or police force — is known as:
17. In which work did Gandhi come closest to producing a sustained work of political theory?
18. In Gandhi's vision of village republics, the panchayat — the unit of local self-government — was to consist of how many persons, elected annually?
19. Consider the following statements on Gandhi's and Bose's views on the form of government:
(I) Gandhi believed in decentralisation of political and economic power, with the village as the basic self-sufficient unit.
(II) Bose, in his 1944 address at Tokyo University, argued that a democratic system was inadequate for pushing through socialistic economic reforms and called for an authoritarian political system.
(III) Both Gandhi and Bose rejected socialism entirely as a basis for India's future.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
20. Gandhi's scheme of basic education for all, conceived in 1937, emphasising holistic training of mind and body along with purposeful manual labour, is known as:
21. Which of the following best describes Gandhi's stance on the caste system, as distinct from his stance on untouchability?
22. Who commanded the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, the women's regiment formed by Bose in the Indian National Army in 1943?
23. When Bose set up a Planning Commission as Congress president in 1938, he insisted on a separate planning commission for women, chaired by:
24. Gandhi drew his symbol of the ideal woman from which mythological figure, who bore injustices patiently and bravely?
25. Consider the following statements on Gandhi's and Bose's views on women:
(I) Gandhi was instrumental in bringing women out of purdah and into the freedom struggle.
(II) Bose called on women to serve as soldiers in the Indian National Army in 1943.
(III) Both Gandhi and Bose held identical views on the domestic versus combat roles of women.
Which of the above is/are correct?
26. Gandhi classified himself as opposed to which of the following forms of economic organisation, viewing both as leading humans to crave luxury and self-indulgence?
27. Under Gandhi's theory of trusteeship, capitalists who had accumulated wealth were expected to:
28. Bose classified industry into which three categories?
29. Which country's rapid industrialisation-based economic success particularly impressed Subhash Bose?
30. Consider the following statements regarding Gandhi's and Bose's economic ideas:
(I) Gandhi advocated a decentralised village economy and opposed large-scale industrialisation.
(II) Bose considered economic freedom to be the essence of social and political freedom and favoured comprehensive state-owned industrial development.
(III) Both agreed that economic reconstruction after independence should be based on unrestricted capitalism.
Which of the above is/are correct?
31. Bose named the Indian National Army's force officially as:
32. Which Indian philosopher/thinker is stated to have particularly inspired Subhash Bose, alongside his reverence for the Bhagavad Gita?
33. On which date did Germany attack Poland, triggering the Second World War?
34. Consider the following statements on the Congress's conditional offer to the Viceroy after the outbreak of WWII:
(I) It demanded that a constituent assembly be convened after the war to determine India's political structure.
(II) It demanded that a genuinely responsible government be established at the Centre immediately.
(III) The offer was accepted by Viceroy Linlithgow.
Which of the above is/are correct?
35. At the Wardha meeting of the Congress Working Committee (September 1939), who advocated unconditional support to the Allied powers due to his opposition to fascist ideology?
36. At the Wardha meeting, Subhash Bose and socialists like Acharya Narendra Dev and Jayaprakash Narayan held which position on the war?
37. Whose position — recognising the imperialist nature of the war but opposing both Indian participation and taking advantage of Britain's difficulties — was ultimately adopted by the Congress Working Committee at Wardha?
38. On which date did the Congress Working Committee call upon Congress ministries in the provinces to resign, following Linlithgow's October 1939 statement?
39. The August Offer of 1940 proposed dominion status as the objective for India and the expansion of the viceroy's executive council. Who made this offer?
40. Who was the first person to offer individual satyagraha in 1940, followed by Jawaharlal Nehru as the second?
41. The individual satyagraha movement of 1940-41 came to be known by which name, referring to satyagrahis' planned march towards the capital?
42. By May 1941, approximately how many people had been convicted for individual civil disobedience?
43. Gandhi designated which leader as his chosen successor around the time of the Congress leaders' release in December 1941?
44. In which month and year was the Cripps Mission sent to India?
45. Who headed the mission sent to India in March 1942 with constitutional proposals to seek Indian support for the war?
46. Consider the following statements on the Cripps Mission proposals:
(I) They offered an Indian Union with dominion status, free to withdraw from the Commonwealth.
(II) Any province unwilling to join the Union could have a separate constitution — seen as a blueprint for partition.
(III) Defence of India was to be transferred immediately to Indian hands.
Which of the above is/are correct?
47. Which two Congress negotiators officially represented the Congress in talks with the Cripps Mission?
48. Consider the following objections raised by the Congress to the Cripps Mission proposals:
(I) Offer of dominion status instead of complete independence.
(II) Representation of princely states by nominees rather than elected representatives.
(III) Right of provinces to secede, seen as going against national unity.
Which of the above is/are correct?
49. Which political organisation objected to the Cripps proposals mainly on the grounds that they denied Muslims the right to self-determination and the creation of Pakistan?
50. Which group objected to the Cripps proposals' secession clause on the grounds that partition would leave them at the mercy of caste Hindus?
51. Which community objected to the Cripps proposals fearing that partition would take away Punjab from them?
52. Under the Cripps Mission's accession procedure, a province's decision to secede required what threshold of legislative support to be decided by resolution rather than plebiscite?
53. Gandhi famously described the Cripps offer as:
54. "I have not become His Majesty's first Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire" — this statement is attributed to:
55. Consider the following statements on the failure of the Cripps Mission:
(I) Cripps adopted a rigid "take it or leave it" attitude and could not go beyond the Draft Declaration.
(II) Churchill, Amery, Linlithgow, and Ward are stated to have consistently torpedoed Cripps' efforts.
(III) Talks broke down primarily over the question of the viceroy's veto.
Which of the above is/are correct?
56. Who made the statement: "The offer of Cripps really gave us nothing... War had given India an opportunity for achieving her freedom. We must not lose it by depending upon a mere promise"?
