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1
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when was the Indian National Congress Founded?

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1885

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When was the Muslim League Founded?

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1906

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Where did Indian Nationalism begin?

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In Bombay, Madras, and Bengali under the crown rule in Bombay, Madras, and Bengali under the crown rule

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Why nationalism spread among Indians?

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Reaction to colonial rule and failure of the British to achieve their promise which is to free India through reforms.

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Purpose of Indian National Congress and Muslim League?

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To liberate their people and instill democratic ideals in which they cooperated.

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When was the university of Bombay, Madras, and Bengali founded?

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1857

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How did Indians students attempt to emulate their mentors that instilled democracy to them?

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By joining the Indian Civil Service

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Indian Civil Service

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Organization that governed India under British rule

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9
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Which people inspired Indian Nationalism?

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Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Macaulay,

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10
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Who was discharged from ICS and became an active Nationalist? He also founded the Indian Association in Calcutta and conveyed the first Indian National Conference.

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Surendranath Banerjea (1848–1925)

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When was the first Indian National Conference conveyed?

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1883

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When was the partition of Bengal?

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1905

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what movement did Banerjea start?

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swadeshi movement

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What did the movement do?

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promoting Indian-made goods, and the movement to boycott British manufactured goods.

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who founded the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha (Poona Public Society)?

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Mahadev Govind Ranade(1842–1901)

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Previous name of University of Mumbai?

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University of Bombay

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Who did Mahadev Govind Ranade helped?

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Prarthana Samaj (Prayer Society)

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At What school did Ranade taught and what journal he wrote for?

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Elphinstone College and Indu Prakash

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Who is Ranade’s disciple?

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Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866–1915)

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At which school did he taught?

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Fergusson College in Poona

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Who is the first president of Indian National Congress?

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Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866–1915)

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Who is the leader of Indian revolutionary action?

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Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920)

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Epithet of Tilak

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The Lokamanya (“Revered by the People”)

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He was jailed in 1897 for seditious writing on Maratha History and orthodox Hinduism.

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Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920)

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Tilak saw the importance of Pre-British Hindu culture, which festivals did he popularize?

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Ganesha (Ganapati) and Shivaji festivals

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What is Tilak’s goal?

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swaraj or Self-rule

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27
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Who prepared nationalism for India?

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Lytton and Lord Ripon (governed 1880–84)

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28
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Who helped the Indian National Congress?

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Allan Octavian Hume (1829–1912)

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29
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When did Hume join theosipical foundation?

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1881

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Who founded the Theosophical Society and when did the person found it?

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Helena Blavatsky (1831–91) 1875

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31
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Who founded the Society of Aryans ( Arya Samaj) in 1875?

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Dayananda Sarasvati (1824–83)

32
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What does Dayananda Sarasvati (1824–83) believe in?

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reject the “corrupting” excrescences of their faith, including idolatry, the caste system, and infant marriage, and to return to the original purity of Vedic life and thought.

33
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Who succeeded Blavatsky and the only woman to serve as a president in the Indian National Congress?

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Annie Besant (1847–1933)

34
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When did she (Annie Besant (1847–1933)) serve as President?

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1907

35
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When was the First Congress Party Session

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December 28, 1885

36
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How many delegates are in the meeting?

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73 (54 Brahman Hindus, 2 Muslims, remaining are Parsi and Jains) Half are lawyers while the remaining are journalists, businessmen, landowners, and professors

37
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Grand Old man of Congress that served 3 terms as the President.

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Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917)

38
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He argued that India’s poverty is from the plunder of Britain and the Third Anglo-Burmese war.

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Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917)

39
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Ex of Petition in the First Congress meeting.

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Among those initial resolutions were calls for the addition of elected nonofficial representatives to the supreme and provincial legislative councils and for real equality of opportunity for Indians to enter the ICS by the immediate introduction of simultaneous examinations in India and Britain.

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Gokhale’s adviser who served as a President for the Congress

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Sir William Wedderburn (1838–1918)

41
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How many delegates did they gain after 2 years?

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600

42
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Despite 1248 delegates, who called the Congress microscopic?

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Viceroy Dufferin

43
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Who unintentionally helped making the Congress popular by criticizing it?

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Viceroy Curzon

44
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When was the partition of Bengal?

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1905

45
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Reason for Partition of Bengal

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Huge population of Bengal, and to prevent rebellion. The Politically active orgs are placed in lesser active areas making them weaker.

46
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What did the Congress in the partition?

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a Divide and rule strategy because of dislikes towards intellectual bengalis.

47
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Which Hindus are less politically active?

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Bihar- and Oriya- speaking Hindus

48
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Respectable, gentle folk

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bhadralok

48
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western Bengal bhadralok are tied to which group of Hindus

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Bihar- and Oriya- speaking Hindus

49
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What is the capital of Assam and Eastern Bengal?

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Dhaka (Dacca)

50
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Date of Partition of Bengal

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October 16, 1905

51
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Why there are mass protests concerning the partition?

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Mother-goddess-worshipping Bengali Hindus believed that partition was nothing less than the vivisection of their “mother province,”

52
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The new tide of national sentiment born in Bengal rose to inundate India in every direction, that became the congress’s National Anthem.

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“Bande Mataram” (“Hail to Thee Mother”)

53
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Which book is the “Bande Mataram” (“Hail to Thee Mother”) based and who is its composer?

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Anandamath, a popular Bengali novel by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, and composed by Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)

54
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Reaction of Bengali to Partition

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. Such bonfires, re-creating ancient Vedic sacrificial altars, aroused Hindus in Poona, Madras, and Bombay to light similar political pyres of protest.

55
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Indians vow to use domestic fabric called _________ instead of foreign made cloth

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(swadeshi)

56
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The swadeshi movement was followed by _________________

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popularization of indigenous enterprise in many fields, from Indian cotton mills to match factories, glassblowing shops, and iron and steel foundries.

57
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Indian jesuits

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Vishnu Krishna Chiplunkar (1850–82), Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (1856–95),

58
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What did Vishnu Krishna Chiplunkar (1850–82), Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (1856–95), do?

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boycott English schools

59
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What spread to entire India after the actions of Vishnu Krishna Chiplunkar (1850–82), Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (1856–95),?

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National Education movement

60
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Who found Baranas Hindu University in 1910?

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Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861–1946)

61
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One of the last major demands to be added to the platform of the Congress Party in the wake of Bengal’s first partition that became the popular mantra of Indian Nationalism

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swaraj(self-rule)

62
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Who did the presidential address in Calcutta in 1906 concerning self rule?

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Dadabhai Naoroji

63
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Where is the first meeting of Muslim League?

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Dacca

64
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When was Delhi sultanate found?

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1206

65
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Last Mughal Emperors serve as a rallying symbol for rebels

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66
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India’s greatest 19th-century Muslim leader, succeeded, in his Causes of the Indian Revolt (1873), in convincing many British officials that Hindus were primarily to blame for the mutiny.

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Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817–98)

67
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ayyid had entered the company’s service in

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1838

68
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He visited Oxford in 1874 and returned to found the _________. It was India’s first centre of Islamic and Western higher education

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Anglo-Muhammadan Oriental College (now Aligarh Muslim University) at Aligarh in 1875

69
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became the intellectual cradle of the Muslim League and Pakistan.

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Aligarch

70
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popularly known by his title Mohsin al-Mulk, had succeeded Sayyid Ahmad as leader and convened a deputation of some 36 Muslim leaders,

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Sayyid Mahdi Ali (1837–1907),

71
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that in 1906 called on Lord Minto (viceroy from 1905–10) to articulate the special national interests of India’s Muslim community.

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Aga Khan III,

72
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promised that any reforms enacted by his government would safeguard the separate interests of the Muslim community. Separate Muslim electorates, formally inaugurated by the Indian Councils Act of 1909,

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Minto

73
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were thus vouchsafed by viceregal fiat in

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1906

74
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What did the Muslim League support?

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“to protect and advance the political rights and interests of Mussalmans of India.” Other resolutions moved at its first meeting expressed Muslim “loyalty to the British government,” support for the Bengal partition, and condemnation of the boycott movement.

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