History of Modern India - MCQs with answers - Part IV

ANSWER:c) Reginald Dyer

On April 13, 1919, thousands of Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims gathered in the Jallianwala Bagh garden in Amritsar and they were gunned down.

ANSWER: a) Rabindranath Tagore

The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of 103 English poems of Tagore's own English translations of his Bengali poems that made him the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. It was first published in November 1912 by the India Society of London.

ANSWER: b) 1920

It was led by Mahatma Gandhi and was supported by the Indian National Congress. It aimed to resist British rule in India through nonviolent means.

ANSWER: c) 1927

The British Government under Stanley Baldwin appointed a group to report on the working of the Indian constitution established by the Government of India Act of 1919.

ANSWER: b) 1930

The observance of Independence Day on January 26, 1930 was followed by the Civil Disobedience Movement. It began with the Dandi March by Gandhiji on March 12.

ANSWER: b) 1942

In August 1942, the Quit India Movement launched in response to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's call for satyagraha.

ANSWER: c) Subhas Chandra Bose

To overthrow the British from India, the Indian National Army was organised by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

ANSWER: c) Nathuram Godse

Nathuram Vinayak Godse was the sole assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. On 30 January 1948, he shot Gandhi in New Delhi.

ANSWER: d) Vallabhbhai Patel

He is often known as the "Iron Man of India" or "Bismarck of India".