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Q60. In which year did Subhas Chandra Bose escape from British surveillance?

[SSC GD Constable (24 November 2021, Shift 2)]

1. A. 1941
2. B. 1939
3. C. 1932
4. D. 1945

Answer: A. 1941

Explanation: Bose secretly left his Calcutta home in January 1941 while under British watch. After travelling through Afghanistan and beyond, he sought foreign support for India’s independence and later moved to Southeast Asia.

Q59. Which movement began at Pochampally in 1951 under Vinoba Bhave?

[UP Police SI (15 November 2021, Shift 3)]

1. A. Bhoodan Movement
2. B. Sarvodaya Movement
3. C. Gram Swarajya
4. D. Khilafat Movement

Answer: A. Bhoodan Movement

Explanation: Bhoodan was a voluntary land-gift campaign initiated by Vinoba Bhave in 1951. It grew from a request for land at Pochampally and became an experiment in nonviolent redistribution inspired by Gandhian Sarvodaya.

Q58. Which foreign journalist reported on the police attack during the Dharasana Salt Satyagraha?

[UPPSC PCS General Studies I (24 October 2021)]

1. A. Francis Louis
2. B. Mark Tully
3. C. Webb Miller
4. D. Philip Spratt

Answer: C. Webb Miller

Explanation: American journalist Webb Miller described British police violence against nonviolent volunteers during the Dharasana Salt Satyagraha in May 1930. After Gandhi’s arrest, Sarojini Naidu helped lead the campaign, and Miller’s report generated international attention.

Q57. Shah Nawaz Khan, Prem Kumar Sahgal and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon are remembered as what?

[UPSC Civil Services Prelims GS-I (10 October 2021)]

1. A. Leaders of the Swadeshi movement
2. B. 1946 interim ministers
3. C. Constituent Assembly Drafting Committee members
4. D. Officers of the Indian National Army

Answer: D. Officers of the Indian National Army

Explanation: The three men served as senior INA officers and became famous defendants in the first Red Fort trial of 1945. Their prosecution triggered broad nationalist sympathy across political divisions, becoming a powerful late-colonial protest issue.

Q56. Who among the following was known as the Grand Old Man of India?

[UPSSSC PET (24 August 2021, Shift 1)]

1. A. Dadabhai Naoroji
2. B. W. C. Bonnerjee
3. C. Pherozeshah Mehta
4. D. Surendranath Banerjee

Answer: A. Dadabhai Naoroji

Explanation: Dadabhai Naoroji earned the title Grand Old Man of India through his decades of nationalist service. He analysed the drain of Indian wealth, served as Congress president and became the first Indian elected to the British House of Commons.

Q55. Who helped lay the foundations of nationalism by organizing the Indian Association at Calcutta in 1876?

[SSC CGL 2020 Tier-I (16 August 2021, Shift 3)]

1. A. Surendranath Banerjee
2. B. Dadabhai Naoroji
3. C. Aurobindo Ghose
4. D. Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

Answer: A. Surendranath Banerjee

Explanation: Surendranath Banerjee and Ananda Mohan Bose created the Indian Association to raise political awareness and build shared demands. Its meetings and campaigns helped prepare the emergence of an organized all-India nationalist movement.

Q54. Where was Subhas Chandra Bose born?

[SSC JE Civil (23 March 2021)]

1. A. Raipur
2. B. Calcutta
3. C. Cuttack
4. D. Darjeeling

Answer: C. Cuttack

Explanation: Subhas Chandra Bose was born on 23 January 1897 in Cuttack, then part of the Bengal Presidency and now in Odisha. He later resigned from the Indian Civil Service and emerged as a prominent nationalist leader.

Q53. Which Indian woman accompanied Gandhi to the Second Round Table Conference in London?

[RRB NTPC CBT-I (11 March 2021, Shift 2)]

1. A. Annie Besant
2. B. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
3. C. Sarojini Naidu
4. D. Sister Nivedita

Answer: C. Sarojini Naidu

Explanation: Sarojini Naidu participated in the Second Round Table Conference in 1931, advocating nationalist and women’s concerns. Gandhi attended as the Congress representative following the Gandhi–Irwin Pact, though the negotiations did not settle India’s constitutional disputes.

Q52. Who was the first Indian woman president of the Indian National Congress?

[RRB NTPC CBT-I (8 March 2021, Shift 2)]

1. A. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
2. B. Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
3. C. Annie Besant
4. D. Sarojini Naidu

Answer: D. Sarojini Naidu

Explanation: Sarojini Naidu chaired the Kanpur session of Congress in 1925, becoming its first Indian woman president. Annie Besant had become the first woman president in 1917, but she was British-born, making the distinction important.

Q51. Which satyagraha earned Vallabhbhai Patel the title Sardar?

[RRB NTPC CBT-I (4 March 2021, Shift 1)]

1. A. Champaran
2. B. Ahmedabad Mill Strike
3. C. Kheda
4. D. Bardoli

Answer: D. Bardoli

Explanation: The 1928 Bardoli Satyagraha in Gujarat opposed steep land-revenue assessment. Patel’s disciplined leadership helped obtain concessions from the colonial administration, and he gained the popular title Sardar.