Kerala PSC History Question and Answers Part-19
1. Which day was called 'Day of Deliverance' by Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
22nd December 1939
2. The first Indian woman to become the President of Indian National Congress
Sarojii Naidu
3. In which year Mahatma Gandhi became the president of Indian National Congress
1924
4. The governor General who made English as the medium of instruction
William Bentick
5. 'We shall either free India or die in the attempt; We shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery' Mahatma Gandhi said these words in connection with :
Quit India
6. Bahadur Shah Zafar, who was deported by the British after the 1857 mutiny, died in the Rangoon jail in
1862
7. In which year Jawaharlal Nehru became the President of the Indian National Congress for the first time?
1929
8. In which year Subhash Chandra Bose became the President of Indian National Congress for the first time?
1938
9. The British officer who under his own authority shot Bahadur Shah Zafar's sons Mirza Mughal, Mirza Khazir Sultan, and grandson Mirza Abu Bakr at the Khooni Darwaza
William Hodson
10. The Viceroy who is known as the father of Local Self Government
Ripon
11. The home of ___ in Paris became the headquarters for the Indian revolutionaries around 1910
Madam Cama
12. The viceroy of India who was a poet, novelist and an essayist of repute
Lord Lytton
13. Which Act authorised the British government to imprison any person without trial and conviction in court of law?
Bowlatt Act of 1919
14. Who attended the Congress of Oppressed Nationalists at Brussels in 1927, on behalf of Indian National Congress
Jawaharlal Nehru
15. Who prepared a leaflet titled 'Now or never' advocating separate nation for Muslims and privately circulated in 1933
Rehmat Ali
16. Who urged Mountbatten to offer Muhammad Ali Jinnah the prime ministership of a united India rather than a separate Muslim nation?
Mahatma Gandhi
17. Who was the founder of Divine life Society?
Swami Sivananda
18. Who was the Viceroy when the Cabinet Mission visited India?
Wavell
19. Who was the Viceroy when the interim government assumed power on 2nd September 1946?
Answer - Wavell
20. Who was the leader of the Congress party, introduced Mahatma Gandhi to the concerns in India and the struggle of the people?
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
21. Elections to the Constituent Assembly was held in the year
1946
22. The first All India Conference of Forward Bloc was held in 1940 at
Nagpur
23. The leader who was known as the 'Mango of Salem'
C Rajagopalachari
24. In how many provinces bicameralism was introduced through the Government of India Act 1935?
Six
25. Which act separated Burma and Aden from India ?
Government of India Act 1935
