GK (Indian History)

Rabindranath Tagore suggested celebrating October 16, 1905 as Rakhi Bandhan Day to protest the partition of Bengal, symbolizing Hindu-Muslim unity against the British divide-and-rule policy. The tradition involved tying rakhis as a gesture of brotherhood and solidarity.

The Theosophical Society was founded in New York City in 1875 by Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, and William Quan Judge.

Benjamin Disraeli, the leader of the Conservative Party in Britain, famously described the 1857 revolt as a 'National Rising' in the British Parliament.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar wrote 'The Indian War of Independence, 1857', which was a seminal work that interpreted the 1857 revolt as the first organized struggle for independence.

Sir Charles Metcalfe is known as the 'liberator of the press' in India because he repealed the restrictive Press Act of 1823 in 1835.

Allan Octavian Hume, a retired British civil servant, played a key role in the formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885.

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a nationalist leader who was associated with the Indian National Congress and was not a founder of the All India Muslim League in 1906.

Swami Vivekananda established the Vedanta Society in New York in 1894 to propagate the philosophy of Vedanta in the West.

The first All India Khilafat Conference was held in Delhi in November 1919, where Mahatma Gandhi was elected as the president of the Khilafat Committee.

Chronology: Partition of Bengal (1905), Foundation of Muslim League (1906), Surat Split (1907), Congress session drafts its constitution (1908).

Jawaharlal Nehru visited Gaidiliu in jail and gave her the title of 'Rani' (Queen) in recognition of her struggle against the British in the Naga hills.

Bhagat Singh was not involved in the Kakori Conspiracy Case; he was involved in the Lahore Conspiracy Case. Ashfaqullah Khan, Rajendra Lahiri, and Roshan Singh were among those hanged for the Kakori incident.

The chronological order is Champaran (1917), Ahmedabad Mill Strike (1918), Kheda (1918), and Rowlatt Acts (1919). Therefore, the sequence 3, 4, 2, 1 is correct.

The Kuka Movement, also known as the Namdhari movement, was a socio-religious reform movement that started in Punjab in the mid-19th century.

Anushilan Samiti was one of the most prominent and revolutionary secret societies in Bengal during the early 20th century, promoting armed resistance against British rule.

Chittaranjan Das successfully defended Sri Aurobindo Ghosh in the famous Alipore Bomb Case of 1908, securing his acquittal.

Rani Gaidinliu led the tribal movement against the British in Manipur and the Naga Hills, not Assam proper as a general region, though her movement impacted the broader northeast; however, option A is conventionally marked as the incorrect match in this specific question context because she belongs to the Zeliangrong movement in Manipur/Nagaland.

The Indian capitalist class generally supported the Civil Disobedience Movement, as they sought protection for domestic industries and were frustrated by British economic policies.

Western education, racial arrogance, and administrative policies helped foster nationalism. Russophobia was a geopolitical fear of the British, not a factor in the growth of Indian nationalism.

The Indian Councils Act of 1909 is famously known as the Morley-Minto Reforms, named after the Secretary of State and the Viceroy of India.

The Simla Conference of 1945 was convened by Lord Wavell to discuss the Wavell Plan for Indian self-government.

The Conservative government in Britain feared losing the upcoming general election to the Labour Party, so they appointed the Simon Commission early to ensure the constitutional review process was under their control.

Under the Government of India Act 1919, elections were held multiple times (1920, 1923, 1926) to the legislative councils.