Indian National | MCQs

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• Annie Besant was selected as the first woman president of the Indian National Congress in 1917.
• She is popularly known as Annie Wood.
• In 1916, along with Lokmanya Tilak, she launched the Home Rule League.
• She was declared a World Teacher after her lecture on Theosophy in 1926.
• She had founded the Central Hindu College in 1898 in Varanasi and this college was later gifted to Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya for the latter to get it converted into Banaras Hindu University.

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The Lahore Congress - 1929:

• The Congress met at Lahore under the Presidentship of Jawaharlal Nehru In 1929.
• It declared Puma Swam or Complete Independence for India as Its goal.
• At mid night on 31, December 1929, the tri colour flag was unfurled on the bank of river Ravi amidst the Slogans Vande Mataram.

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The Lucknow Pact is an agreement between the Indian National Congress (INC) and the All-India Muslim Federation, which was signed in 1916 at a joint meeting of  the two parties  in Lucknow. 

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On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi.

begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt

His boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India

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Dadabhai Naoroji also known as the "Grand Old Man of India" and "Unofficial Ambassador of India" was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar and writer

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The Khilafat movement (1919–22) was a political campaign launched by Indian Muslims.

The 'Khilafat Movement Day' was observed on 17th October 1919. 

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Indian National Congress was founded on 28 December 1885.

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Zamindar was an Urdu newspaper.

The founding editor of this newspaper was Maulana Zafar Ali Khan.

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The leader of the Khilafat movement is Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar and Shaukat Ali

Muhammad Ali Jauhar was born in 10 December 1878

Muhammad Ali Jauhar was died in – 4 January 1931

Muhammad Ali Jauhar  a prominent member of the All-India Muslim League and one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia

Shaukat Ali was an Indian Muslim member of the Khilafat Movement.

He was the elder brother of the renowned political leader Mohammad Ali Jouhar.

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related Question to the Khilafat movement:

The Khilafat movement was launched in the subcontinent in 1919 till 1924

The migration Movement was a part of the Khilafat Movement

Khilafat Movement come to an end in 1924

Khilafat Movement announced: Boycott of British goods, Non-Cooperation with the Government, No participation in victory celebrations.

AGM 08-01-2023

ND30-4-2023

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Khilafat movement was launched in the subcontinent in 1919 till 1924.