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The correct answer is Chittaranjan Das.

Key Points

• Chittaranjan Das was the President of the Gaya Session of the Indian National Congress held in 1922.
• Gaya Session,1922:
• C. R. Das was the President of the session.
• The INC rejected the proposal of fighting with the British by entering into the legislature.
• By the end of the session, Congress Khilafat Swarajist Party was formed out of INC, which included leaders like C. R. Das, Vitthalbhai Patel, Motilal Nehru, etc.

The correct answer is ​Food and Agriculture.

Key Points 

• An interim government is also known as the provisional/temporary government. 
• It is formed to look after the internal and external affairs of the country until a new government is elected.
• In 1946, elections of the constituent assembly were held following the proposals of the British Cabinet Mission dispatched by the British Prime Minister Clement Atlee.
• The Interim Government of India was formed on 2 September 1946.
• On September 26, 1946, Nehru declared the Government's plan to engage in diplomatic relations with all countries.
• He also expressed support for the independence of colonised nations.

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The correct answer is United States of America.

Key Points

• The Ghadar party was an international political movement organized by Indians to end British rule in India.
• It was formed in 1913.
• Headquarters was at Yugantar Ashram in San Francisco, United States of America.
• It was founded by Sohan Singh Bhakna and Lala Hardayal.
• The Ghadar Party was organized by migrants Indians in the United States.
• The old name of the Ghadar Party was the Pacific coast Hindustan association.
• The name Ghadar party was adopted after the launch of its journal Ghadar in 1913.
• It was formally dissolved in 1948.

The correct answer is Gopal Krishna Gokhale.

Key Points

• Gopal Krishna Gokhale founded the ‘Servants of India society.
• It was formed in Pune, Maharashtra in 1905.
• The Deccan education society was left by Gokhale to form this association.
• This association was formed with a small group of educated Indians.
• To promote social and human development and overthrow the British rule in India was the objective of forming this association.
• Many campaigns for education, sanitation, and healthcare were promoted by the organization.
• Untouchability, discrimination, alcoholism, poverty, and oppression of women like issues were raised.
• Hitavada was the magazine, which was published through the association.

The correct answer is Lala Lajpat Rai.

Key Points

• Lala Lajpat Rai
• Lala Lajpat Rai was the author of Unhappy India book. Hence, Option 1 is correct.
• In Unhappy India, Lala Lajpat Rai gave a reply to Katherine Mayo, a journalist who wrote a biased book on India depicting only its problems.
• Rai compared Indian society with the USA and Britain of that time and pointed out that their situation is not much different than India.
• A rare book published in 1928. From the collection of The Room of Classics.
• He was an Indian independence activist.
• He played a pivotal role in the Indian Independence movement.
• He was popularly known as Punjab Kesari.
• He was one of the three Lal Bal Pal triumvirates.
• He was also associated with activities of Punjab National Bank and Lakshmi Insurance Company in their early stages in 1894.
• He was elected President of the Indian National Congress in the Calcutta Special Session of 1920.
• In 1921, he founded Servants of the People Society, a non-profit welfare organization, in Lahore.

The correct answer is B.R. Ambedkar 

Key Points

Round Table Conferences -

• The First Conference of the Round Table took place in 1930.
• The Second Conference of the Round Table was in 1931.
• The third Round Table Conference took place between 17 November 1932 and 24 December 1932.
• The three Round Table Conferences of 1930–32 were a series of peace conferences organized by the British Government and Indian political personalities to discuss constitutional reforms in India.
• All three round table conferences were attended by
• Dr B.R.Ambedkar,
• Tej Bahadur Sapru,
• M. R. Jaykar,
• N. M. Joshi,
• C. N. Mudaliar.

The correct answer is Surendranath Banerjee.

Key Points

• The Indian National Association also is known as Indian Association was the first avowed nationalist organization founded in British India by Surendranath Banerjee and Ananda Mohan Bose in 1876.
• The objectives of this Association were "promoting by every legitimate means the political, intellectual and material advancement of the people".
• This association opposed Elbert's bill on the dispute as lowering the age limit for civil service examination.
• Indian Association had preferred middle class than landlords.

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• Surendranath Banerjee:
• Surendranath Banerjee is also known as Rastra Guru.
• He was born in 1848 and died in 1925, he competed in the Indian Civil Service Examination along with RC Dutt.
• He cleared the exam in 1869 but was debarred because of an age dispute.
• Later he cleared the exam in 1871 and got appointed as Assistant magistrate in Bengal.
• Later he established the Indian National Association which was Pro-British.
• He was knighted by the Government and also served as minister for local self-government from 1921 to 1924.
• He was an open critic of Mahatma Gandhi, who was then only in the rising stage of his political career.

The correct answer is Germany.

Key Points

• Subhas Chandra Bose
• Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him a hero in India, but whose attempts during World War II to rid India of British rule with the help of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan left a troubled legacy.
• The honorific Netaji was first applied to Bose in Germany in early 1942—by the Indian soldiers of the Indische Legion and by the German and Indian officials in the Special Bureau for India in Berlin.
• Bose attempted to maintain unity, but Gandhi advised Bose to form his own cabinet.
• The rift also divided Bose and Nehru.
• Bose appeared at the 1939 Congress meeting on a stretcher.
• He was elected president again over Gandhi's preferred candidate Pattabhi Sitaramayya.

The correct answer is Surya Sen.

Key Points 

• The Chittagong armoury raid took place on 18 April 1930 and was an attempt at raiding the armoury of police and auxiliary forces, led by freedom fighter Surya Sen.
• The volunteers he gathered were part of a revolutionary group of nationalists who believed in using force to fight the British.
• The original plan was to capture two armouries in Chittagong, subsequently destroying the telegraph and telephone office.
• The group would then take hostages from the European Club, as most of its members were involved in the colonial government in some form.
• Amongst these volunteers were two incredible women: Pritilata Waddedar and Kalpana Datta.

The correct answer is ​Sannyasi.

Key Points 

• Anandamath is a Bengali fiction, written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and published in 1882.
• It is inspired by and set in the background of the Sannyasi Rebellion in the late 18^th century.
• It is considered one of the most important novels in the history of Bengali and Indian literature.
• Its first English publication was titled The Abbey of Bliss (literally Ananda=Bliss and Math=Abbey).
• The book is set in the years during the famine in Bengal in 1770.

Additional Information 

• Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (27 June 1838–8 April 1894) was an Indian novelist, poet, and journalist.
• He was the composer of Vande Mataram, originally in Sanskrit, personifying India as a mother goddess and inspiring activists during the Indian Independence Movement.
• He wrote fourteen novels and many serious, seriocomic, satirical, scientific, and critical treatises in Bengali.
• He is known as Sahitya Samrat (Emperor of Literature) in Bengali.