Who was the first Indian woman to become president of the Indian National Congress?
- A.Annie Besant
- B.Sarojini Naidu
- C.Aruna Asaf Ali
- D.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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The correct answer is B, Sarojini Naidu, who presided over the Kanpur session of 1925 and so became the first Indian woman to hold the office; she is called the Nightingale of India for her poetry and later became the first woman Governor of a province in independent India. Option A, Annie Besant, was the first woman president of the Congress, at Calcutta in 1917, but she was Irish by birth, which is the whole point of the question and the reason the two options sit together in every paper. Option C, Aruna Asaf Ali, hoisted the Congress flag at Gowalia Tank in 1942 and is remembered as the heroine of the Quit India movement, but she was never Congress president. Option D, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, led India at the United Nations and was the first woman president of its General Assembly.
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View allWho started the newspaper Mook Nayak in the year 1920?
- A.Dadabhai Naoroji
- B.Jyotiba Phule
- C.B. R Ambedkar
- D.Mahadeo Govind Ranade
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He launched the Marathi fortnightly Mooknayak, meaning leader of the voiceless, in January 1920 with help from Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur, and used it to argue the case of the depressed classes; Bahishkrit Bharat, Janata and Prabuddha Bharat followed.
Read the full explanation →Who addressed Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation?
- A.Jawaharlal Nehru
- B.Subhas Chandra Bose
- C.Rabindranath Tagore
- D.Vallabhbhai Patel
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The correct answer is B, Subhas Chandra Bose, who called Gandhi the Father of the Nation in a radio broadcast in 1944, asking for his blessings for the fight the Indian National Army was carrying on from the east.
Read the full explanation →The title Father of Indian Unrest was given to Bal Gangadhar Tilak by
- A.Lord Curzon
- B.Valentine Chirol
- C.Annie Besant
- D.William Wedderburn
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The correct answer is B, Valentine Chirol, a British journalist of The Times who used the phrase for Tilak in his book on Indian unrest, holding his writings responsible for turning the people against the government; Tilak sued him for defamation and lost, and the title stuck as a mark…
Read the full explanation →Who among the following is known as Deshbandhu?
- A.Chittaranjan Das
- B.Rajendra Prasad
- C.Charles Freer Andrews
- D.Jayaprakash Narayan
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The correct answer is A, Chittaranjan Das, the Bengal leader who gave up a large legal practice for the non-cooperation movement, defended the Alipore bomb case accused, and founded the Swaraj Party with Motilal Nehru in 1923 to contest the legislatures from within.
Read the full explanation →Vallabhbhai Patel received the title Sardar after leading which movement?
- A.The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917
- B.The Kheda Satyagraha of 1918
- C.The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928
- D.The Dandi March of 1930
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The peasants of Bardoli taluka in Surat district refused to pay a steep increase in land revenue, Vallabhbhai Patel organised the resistance, the government was forced to appoint an inquiry and roll back most of the increase, and the women of Bardoli gave him the title Sardar.
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