SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

A schoolteacher known as Masterda, Surya Sen led the Indian Republican Army in a raid on the armoury at Chittagong in April 1930, hoisted the national flag and declared a provisional government before the group took to the hills.

The two threw low-intensity bombs into the empty benches of the Central Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1929 while the Public Safety Bill and the Trade Disputes Bill were being pushed through, shouted slogans, threw leaflets and refused to escape, so that the trial could be used to explain their…

Revolutionaries from the United Provinces, Punjab and elsewhere met at the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in September 1928 and reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, adding socialism to its aim of independence; Chandra Shekhar Azad became its commander in chief.

Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie was a political aide to the Secretary of State for India, and Madan Lal Dhingra, who belonged to the India House circle of Shyamji Krishna Varma, shot him at a meeting in London in 1909 and was hanged the same year.

The HRA had been founded at Kanpur in 1924 by Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee and Ram Prasad Bismil, and it needed money for arms, so its members stopped a train near Kakori in the United Provinces and took the government treasury it carried.

Kingsford had passed harsh sentences on young Swadeshi workers as a magistrate at Calcutta and had been transferred to Muzaffarpur.

Savarkar had founded a youth body called Mitra Mela at Nasik in 1899 and converted it into the Abhinav Bharat Society in 1904, which spread in Maharashtra and later had branches in London through India House.

The Anushilan Samiti, founded in 1902, was the largest revolutionary organisation of Bengal, and its Dhaka branch under Pulin Behari Das was the most tightly organised.

A bomb was thrown at Lord Hardinge during his ceremonial entry into Delhi in December 1912, when the capital was being shifted from Calcutta.

The Ghadar Party was founded in 1913 at San Francisco by Indian emigrants, mainly Punjabi workers and farmers on the Pacific coast of North America.

Bhikaji Cama unfurled a flag of Indian independence at the International Socialist Congress held at Stuttgart in Germany in 1907, and appealed to the delegates to support the Indian cause.

India touches China through Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh, and Nagaland is not on that boundary; its international border is with Myanmar.

Gairsain, in the Chamoli district of the Garhwal hills, was declared the summer capital of Uttarakhand, a long-standing demand of the hill districts, which held that a capital in the plains at Dehradun left them neglected.

Itanagar, named after the Ita fort in the area, became the capital when Arunachal Pradesh was a Union territory and continued as the capital after it became a State in 1987.

Uttar Pradesh touches eight States, namely Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar, and in addition the Union territory of Delhi, which is the largest number for any State.

The McMahon Line was drawn at the Simla Convention of 1914 and is the boundary India recognises with China in the eastern sector, running along the crest of the hills north of Arunachal Pradesh.

Gujarat has the longest coastline of any Indian State, because its shore runs along the Gulf of Kachchh, the Saurashtra peninsula and the Gulf of Khambhat, which gives it a deeply indented outline and many ports, including Kandla and Mundra.

India shares its boundary with Myanmar through four States, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram, and Assam is not among them, because it is shut off from Myanmar by Nagaland and Manipur.

The Tropic of Cancer crosses India through eight States, namely Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram, and Odisha is not one of them because it lies to the south of the line.

The India and Bangladesh boundary runs through five States, and of these West Bengal has by far the longest stretch, since Bangladesh lies along its southern and eastern sides.