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Modern Indian Historical Figures

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Modern Indian Historical Figures Questions

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Who had, while fasting in the prison, written to the British governor, "The individual must die so that the nation may live. Today, I must die so that India may win freedom and glory"?

  1. Jatin Das

  2. Lala Lajpat Rai

  3. MK Gandhi

  4. SC Bose
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Explanation

Jatin Das famously wrote this sentiment while on his hunger strike in Lahore jail, emphasizing the sacrifice of the individual for the nation's freedom.

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Who threw a bomb on Viceroy Lord Hardinge?

  1. Khudiram Bose

  2. Aurobindo Ghosh

  3. Sachindranath Sanyal

  4. Rash Behari Bose
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Explanation

Rash Behari Bose threw a bomb on Viceroy Lord Hardinge and this event in history is called Delhi Conspiracy case of Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy.It took place in 1912 and was an attempt to assassinate the then Viceroy of India, Lord Hardinge, on the occasion of transferring the capital of British India from Calcutta to New Delhi.

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Who succeeded in managing his escape to Japan?

  1. Vishnu Ganesh Pingale

  2. Lala Hardayal

  3. Rash Behari Bose

  4. Bhai Parmananda
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Rash Behari Bose succeeded in managing his escape to Japan in 1915 after the failure of the Ghadar movement. The Ghadar movement revolutionaries tried to trigger a mutiny in the British Indian army but failed. Most of the revolutionaries were arrested.

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Who was the chief of the revolutionary group at Chittagong in Bengal?

  1. Kalpana Datta

  2. Pritilata Wadedar

  3. Surya Sen

  4. Shanti Ghosh
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Surya Sen was a revolutionary noted for leading the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid In Chittagong of Bengal in British India. He led a group of revolutionaries in 1930 to raid the armoury of police and auxiliary forces from the Chittagong armoury. It was an attempt to isolate Chittagong from the rest of British India by cutting all channels of communication.

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Who among the following were hanged in the Kakori conspiracy?

  1. Ram Prasad Bismil

  2. Ashfaqullah

  3. Roshan Singh

  4. All
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The Kakori conspiracy was the most important action of the Hindustan Republic Association (HRA). The revolutionaries held up the 8-Down train travelling from Shahjahanpur to Lucknow at Kakori, an obscure village near Lucknow and looted its official railway cash. Government crackdown after Kakori led to arrests of many, of whom 17 were jailed, 4 transported for life and 4 - Bismil, Ashfaqullah, Roshan Singh and Rajendra Lahiri were hanged.

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____________ setup Mitra Mela, a secret organisation in 1899.

  1. V.D. Savarkar

  2. Bhagat Singh

  3. Ram Prasad Bismil

  4. Chandra Shekhar Azad
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During the Freedom struggle, some of the radicals set themselves for armed revolution. They were called as Revolutionary Nationalists. V.D. Savarkar setup a secret organisation called Mitra Mela in 1899.

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Khudiram Bose was hanged at the age of ________.

  1. 16

  2. 30

  3. 19

  4. 27
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During the Freedom struggle, some of the radicals set themselves for armed revolution. They were called as Revolutionary Nationalists. Khudiram was the first martyr to be hanged in the history of Indian freedom struggle (1908). At that time his age was just 19 years. He was sentenced to death for attacking and killing three Britishers in Muzaffarpur, Bihar in 1908. 

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Saunders, Assistant Superintendent of police, who was responsible for Lala Lajpat Rai death, was killed by __________.

  1. Batukeshwar Dutt

  2. Bhagat Singh and Rajguru

  3. Chandra Shekhar Azad

  4. Sachindra Sanyal
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Explanation

Lala Lajpat Rai died on November 17, 1928, after suffering grievous injuries during a lathi-charge carried out by the police. Bhagat Singh and Shivaram Rajguru shot and killed assistant superintendent of police John Saunders.on December 17, 1927. However, their original target was not Saunders but the superintendent of police James Scott who had ordered his men to lathi-charge.

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The revolutionary who was an accused in Lahore Conspiracy Case and who died in Jail after $63$ days fast was ________.

  1. Jatindra Nath Das

  2. Sukh Dev

  3. Raj Guru

  4. Both (a) and (b)

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Jatindra Nath Das (Jatin Das) died in Lahore Jail on September 13, 1929, after a 63-day hunger strike to protest the poor conditions of political prisoners.

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The main brain behind hurling a bomb at Lord Hardinge, while he was making his state entry into Delhi was ___________.

  1. Ras Behari Bose

  2. Bhagat Singh

  3. Sachindra Sanyal

  4. Jatin Das
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Rash Behari Bose attempted to assassinate Lord Hardinge on 23 December 1912 after Lord Hardinge was returning from the Delhi Darbar of King George V. He was hunted by the British police due to his participation in the failed bomb hurling attempt. His aim was to prove to the world that Indians do not accept the subjection of his country to foreign rule by consent, but by force of military power.

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In the famous Kakori Conspiracy Case(August $1925$) which of the following revolutionaries was not hanged?

  1. Ram Prasad Bismil

  2. Asafaqualla Khan

  3. Bhagat Singh

  4. Roshan Singh
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Kakori Conspiracy Case was an armed robbery on August 9, 1925, of a train at the town of Kakori. It also refers to its subsequent court trial that recommended death sentences for some freedom fighters. Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, and Roshan Singh were sentenced to death. It was the first organized ‘crime’ of HRA.

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The revolutionary leader who had organized an attack on the armoury of Chittagong was ______________.

  1. Surya Sen

  2. Jatin Das

  3. Chandra Shekhar Azad

  4. CR Das
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Surya Sen was a Bengali independence fighter who led the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid. He made a revolt against British rule in Chittagong and banished British reign for a few days. One of his successful undertakings was a robbery at the treasury office at the Bengal-Assam Railway at Chittagong on December 23, 1933 in broad daylight.

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Which of the following is not correctly matched?

  1. Bhagat Singh: Meerut Conspiracy Case

  2. Ram Prasad Bismil: Kakori Conspiracy Case

  3. Chandra Shekhar Azad: New Delhi Conspiracy

  4. Surya Sen: Chittagong Armoury Raid
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Explanation

Chandra Shekhar Azad was not involved in a 'New Delhi Conspiracy' case; he was famously associated with the Kakori conspiracy and the HSRA. The other pairs are correctly matched.

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Kesri Singh Baharat was sent to which of the following jails

  1. Nainital prison

  2. Andaman jail

  3. Hajari bagh jail

  4. None of these
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Kesari Singh Barahat was a Rajasthan poet and freedom fighter of Rajasthan. Barahath worked to awaken the people of Rajasthan, mostly the Kshatriyas, against British rule by education and organising them. He was sent to Hajari Bagh jail in the state of Jharkhand for his participation in freedom struggle.

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Who among the following was responsible for the death of Pratap Singh Barhath in jail?

  1. Lord Mountbatten

  2. Lord Cornwallis

  3. Lord Harding

  4. Cleveland
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Pratap Singh Barahat was the son of Kesari Singh Barhath. He was also a revolutionist and freedom fighter. He was born in Udaipur on May 24th 1893. Due to his participation in freedom struggle, Pratap Singh was confined to Barely jail. Lord Cleveland was responsible for the death of Pratap Singh Barahat as he was reluctant to give out information regarding Raasbihari Bose and other revolutionaries.