Modern Indian History

The Home Rule Movement in India was led by two main figures: Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Dr. Annie Besant. Since Annie Besant is the only one of the two listed as an option, she is the correct choice.

The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928 was a major peasant movement in Gujarat. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel led the movement, and it was after this success that the women of Bardoli bestowed the title 'Sardar' upon him.

Mahatma Gandhi was deeply influenced by John Ruskin (Unto This Last), Henry David Thoreau (Civil Disobedience), and Leo Tolstoy (The Kingdom of God is Within You).

Rabindranath Tagore passed away on August 7, 1941, in his ancestral home in Calcutta.

Rabindranath Tagore was a polymath who excelled as a poet, novelist, playwright, and painter, making 'All of the above' the correct choice.

The Non-cooperation movement was officially launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1920 following the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and the Khilafat issue.

Mahatma Gandhi famously described the Cripps' Mission proposals as a 'post-dated cheque on a crashing bank' due to the uncertainty of the British promise for dominion status.

The Salt Satyagraha, also known as the Dandi March, was launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930.

Unto This Last is an essay and book on economy by John Ruskin, first published in 1860. It had a profound influence on Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of life and economics.

Vande Mataram is a poem written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in his 1882 novel Anandamath. It was adopted as the national song of India.

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875, which later became the Aligarh Muslim University.

Lord Ripon is known as the father of local self-government in India for his resolution of 1882, which gave the people the right to elect local bodies.

Baharamji Malabari, a social reformer and journalist, founded the Seva Sadan in Bombay in 1908 to work for the welfare of women.