Kerala PSC History Question and Answers Part-57
1. In which year was a British Committee of the Indian National Congress established in London?
1899
2. Who put forward the 'Drain Theory' to explain the British exploitation of India?
Dadabhai Naoroji
3. Which Viceroy condemned the nationalists by calling 'Seditious' Brahmins, Disloyal Babus' & called Congress 'A factory of Sedition'?
Lord Dufferin
4. Which Viceroy said that 'the Congress is tottering to its fall, and one of my great ambitions, while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise'?
Lord Curzon
5. In 1865, who founded the East India Association at London?
Dadabhai Naoroji
6. Who was the first to raise the slogan 'India for the Indians'?
Dayananda Saraswathi
7. Which British Viceroy insulted Indian nationalists and the intelligentsia by describing their activities as 'Letting of Gas'?
Lord Curzon
8. Who said that If there is a sin in this world, it is weakness; avoid all weakness, weakness is sin, weakness is death'?
Swami Vivekananda
9. In which year the British Government's decision to partition Bengal was made public?
1903 December
10. Which British Viceroy was behind the partition of Bengal?
Lord Curzon
11. What was the official explanation regarding the partition of Bengal?
Administrative difficulties
12. In which year, was the partition of Bengal formally came into effect?
16 October 1905
13. Which session of the Congress declared that the goal of the Indian National Congress was 'self government or Swaraj like the United Kingdom or the colonies'?
1906 (Calcutta)
14. Who presided over the 1906 session of Indian National Congress at Calcutta?
Dadabhai Naoroji
15. Which session of the Congress witnessed the first split in the organization?
Surat (1907)
16. Who presided over the 1907 session of the Congress?
Rashbehari Ghosh
17. Who declared that Political freedom is the life breath of a Nation'?
Aurobindo Ghosh
18. Who organised the 'Swadesh Bandhab Samiti' as a popular & powerful method of mass mobilisation?
Ashvvini Kumar Dutt
19. Who were the main architects of the Indian National Conference?
Surendranath Banerji & Ananda Mohan Bose
20. Which song was written by Tagore on the occasion of Bengal partition?
Amar Sonar Bangla
