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The correct answer is Uttar Pradesh.

Key Points

• The incident of Chauri Chaura occurred on 4 February 1922 in Chauri Chaura in the United Province district of Gorakhpur (modern Uttar Pradesh) in British India, when a large number of demonstrators involved in the Non-cooperation campaign clashed with the open firing police.
• The protesters assaulted and set fire to a police station in revenge, killing all its inhabitants. The incident resulted in three people and 22 policemen being killed.
• On 12 February 1922, as a direct consequence of this event, Mahatma Gandhi, who was purely against violence, suspended the non-cooperation campaign at the national level.

Additional Information

• Indians, led by Mahatma Gandhi, became active in a national non-cooperation movement in the early 1920s.
• Protests were initiated by the Indian National Congress to oppose repressive government legislative initiatives, such as the Rowlatt Act, with the eventual aim of swaraj or liberation, using non-violent means of civil disobedience known as Satyagraha.

The correct answer is Muzaffarpur.

Key Points

• Khudiram Bose, along with Prafulla Chaki, decided to murder the Magistrate of Muzaffarpur, Bihar named Kingsford.
• Kingsford was very unpopular as he was known to pronounce harsh sentences even for mild offences.
• Khudiram was hanged on August 11, 1908, on charges of bombing the carriage of Kingsford, in the attack of which barrister Pringle Kennedy's wife and daughter were killed.
• He sacrificed his life on the altar of freedom struggle at the very young age of 18.
• The Muzaffarpur Jail, where he was executed on August 11, 1908, was renamed Khudiram Bose Memorial Central Jail.

The correct answer is Quit India Movement.

Key Points

• For fighting the tyranny of British rule, Jayaprakash Narayan, organised an “Azaad Dasta” (freedom brigade) in Nepal during the Quit India Movement.
• Jayaprakash Narayan, also known as JP or Lok Nayak, was an Indian freedom fighter, theorist and socialist.
• He is also referred to as the "Hero of Quit India Movement" and he's remembered for leading the mid-1970s opposition against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, for whose overthrow, he had called for a "total revolution".

Additional Information Civil Disobedience Movement:

• The movement was launched in 1930.
• It is considered as the second major Gandhian mass movement, popularly labelled as the Salt Satyagraha, which made a distinct advance in broadening the social reach of the anti-imperialist struggle compared to the Non-cooperation Movement, which was launched during the early 1920s.

Non-Cooperation Movement

• The Non-Cooperation Movement was pitched in under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress from September 1920 to February 1922, marking a new awakening in the Indian Independence Movement.
• It was the first nationwide mass movement that was launched to resist British rule in India through non-violent means.

Champaran Satyagraha

• Champaran Satyagraha was launched on 19 April 1917.
• This was Gandhi’s first Satyagraha movement and a farmer’s revolt in Bihar against indigo crop production.

The correct answer is Jagjivan Ram.

Key PointsInterim Government: 

• Interims Government was headed by Jawahar Lal Nehru.
• The constituent assembly began its session on 9^th December 1946 AD.

Cabinet of the Interim Government of India:

The correct answer is Deepawali.

Key Points

• Jaayaprakash Narayan escaped from the prison and organised underground activities during the Quit India Movement.
• He along with Ram Manohar Lohia and Aruna Asaf Ali, took charge of the ongoing stir when all the senior leaders had been arrested.
• However, he also could not remain outside the jail for long time and was soon arrested under Defence of India Rules, a preventive detention law that did not require trial. He was put in Hazari Bagh Central Jail.
• Jayaprakash along with his accomplices started making plan to escape from the Jail.
• Their chance came soon on a Diwali day in November 1942 when a large number of guards were on leave because of the festival. It was a daring escape which made Jayaprakash into a folk hero.
• Jayaprakash actively worked underground for Indian Freedom Movement in this period.

The correct answer is December 1946 AD.

Key Points

• The Constituent Assembly was formed on 9^th December 1946 to frame the Constitution of India.
• Dr Rajendra Prasad was elected as the Chairman of the Constituent Assembly on **11^th December 1946. **​

Additional Information

• The drafting committee was set up on  August 29, 1947.Among all the committees of the Constituent Assembly, the most important committee was the Drafting Committee.
• The drafting committee was entrusted with the responsibility to prepare the Draft constitution
• The drafting committee was set up on 29 August 1947 under the chairmanship of Dr B R Ambedkar.
• The constituent assembly took 2 years, 11 months and 17 days to frame the constitution.There were 22 parts, 395 articles, and 8 schedules in the original constitution.

The correct answer is Abdul Gaffar Khan.

Key Points

• Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was referred to as "Frontier Gandhi". He was also known as Bacha Khan. He was a Pashtun independence activist who campaigned to eliminate and end the rule of the British Raj in India.
• Facts About Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
• Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan took birth on 6 February 1890.
• He belonged to a Pashtun family from a place called Utmanzai in the Peshawar Valley of British India.
• In the year 1910, that is when he was 20 years old he opened a mosque school in his hometown.
• Later after five years of opening the school, the Britishers shut the school thinking that ant British activities were going on in that school
• Khan had strong opposition to the partition of India.
• He was the founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar (“Servants of God”) movement in 1929.
• The movement lead to great success and this earned his team and supporters a harsh crackdown from the British Raj, and suffering some of the worst repression of the Indian Independence Struggle

Additional Information

• Abdul Ghaffar Khan was called Frontier Gandhi due to the following reasons: 
• Due to his adherence to pacifism and close association with Mahatma Gandhi, he earned the nickname “Frontier Gandhi”.

The correct answer is Gwalior.

Key Points

• Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi was born on 19 November 1828.
• She was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and became a symbol of resistance to the British Raj for Indian nationalists.
• She was named ‘Manikarnika Tambe’ or nicknamed ‘Manu’.
• Lakshmi Bai was educated at home and was more independent than others.
• She was married to ‘Raja Gangadhar Rao’, the King of Jhansi in 1842.
• She gave birth to a boy in 1851 and named him ‘Damodar Rao’.
• After the death of the king, the Britishers annexed Jhansi through the doctrine of lapse method.
• Lakshmi Bai fought wars with the Britishers very bravely in order to save Jhansi.
• Nana Saheb and Tatya Tope were her contemporaries.
• Rani Lakshmi Bai died on 18^th June 1858 while fighting a war of revolt against the British.
• The Samadhi of Rani Lakshmi Bai is situated in the complex of the Phool Bagh area of Gwalior. Virangana Lakshmi Bai is a well-known freedom fighter of India, who fought against the British for the freedom of the country.

The correct answer is Surendra Nath Bannerjee.

Key Points

• “The partition announcement fell like a bomb shell. We felt that we had been A dliated and tricked.”It was said by Surendra Nath Banerjea
• The partition hurt the national sentiments of the people and led to widespread agitation not only in Bengal but also in other parts of India. The people raised the cries of Bande Matram and launched the Swadeshi and Boycott Movements.
• Bengal was partitioned in 1905.
• It was partitioned by Lord Curzon.
• Partition was announced on 20^th July 1905.
• The Bengal partition came into effect on 16^th October 1905.
• Partition of Bengal was a part of executing the divide and rule policy in India by the British.
• The Swadeshi movement was one of the main protests against the partition of Bengal.
• The Partition of Bengal was cancelled in 1911.
• It was cancelled by Lord Hardinge II.
• Bengal was partitioned for the second time in 1947 as a part of the Partition of India.

Additional Information

• On 7 August 1905, with the passage of the Boycott Resolution in a massive meeting held in the Calcutta Townhall, the formal proclamation of the Swadeshi Movement was made.
• Vande Mataram became the boycott and Swadeshi movement theme song.
• After this, the leaders dispersed to other parts of Bengal to propagate the message of a boycott of Manchester cloth and Liverpool salt.
• Swadeshi movement was launched as a protest movement which also gave a led to the Boycott movement in the country.
• 16 October 1905, the day the partition formally came into force, was observed as a day of mourning throughout Bengal.
• The Indian National Congress under the Presidentship of G.K.Gokhale formally approved the Swadeshi Movement at Banaras session in December 1905.
• Objectives:
• Condemn the partition of Bengal,
• Condemn the reactionary policies of Curzon, and
• Support the anti-partition and Swadeshi Movement of Bengal.
• A big step forward was taken at the Congress session held at Calcutta (1906) under the presidentship of Dadabhai Naoroji.
• ​In this session, it was declared that the goal of the Indian National Congress was "self-government or swaraj like the United Kingdom or the colonies" of Australia or Canada.

The correct answer is Michael O'dwyar.

Key Points

• Udham Singh was an Indian revolutionary belonging to the Ghadar Party, best known for his assassination in London of Michael O'Dwyer, the former lieutenant governor of Punjab in India, on 13^th March 1940.
• The assassination was done in revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919, for which O'Dwyer was responsible.
• Udham Singh was subsequently tried and convicted of murder and hanged in July 1940.
• While in custody, he used the name Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, which represents the three major religions of Punjab and his anti-colonial sentiment.
• He is also referred to as Shaheed-i-Azam Sardar Udham Singh.

Additional InformationCurzon Wylie:

• He held a number of assistant resident positions throughout India, and in 1898 gained the appointment of an agent to the governor-general in central India.
• He was selected to work as a political Aide-de-Camp for Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for India.

John Saunders

• John Saunders was the Police officer responsible for the lathi charge in which Lala Lajpat Rai died.
• That lathi charge was due to the procession of the anti-Simon Commission.

General Dyer:

• In the year 1919, General Dyer led a brigade of British soldiers that patrolled the Punjab province's Jalandhar.
• General Dyer, was the one who ordered the tragic massacre that happened on April 13, 1919, at Amritsar's Jallianwala Bagh.