This compilation contains all the multiple-choice questions from the West Bengal Civil Service (WBCS) Mains History examinations (2014-2023) that focus on early secret societies (Abhinava Bharat, Anushilan Samiti, Mitramela), Gadar Party, revolutionary actions in India and abroad (Alipore, Hardinge bomb attack, Kakori Conspiracy, Bhagat Singh, Jatin Das, Central Assembly bombing, Chittagong Armoury Raid, and the Indian National Army / INA and Subhas Chandra Bose).
WBCS Mains Revolutionary Nationalism & Movements Questions 2023
Q. Which was the nerve centre of the Quit India Movement in Medinipur of Bengal?
(A) Garbeta
(B) Tamluk
(C) Kanthi
(D) Haldia
Correct Answer: (B) Tamluk
Q. Who founded the ‘Khudai Khidmatgar’?
(A) Md. Ali Jinnah
(B) Salimullah
(C) Saiyad Brothers
(D) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Correct Answer: (D) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Q. Who was associated with the Home Rule Movement in India?
(A) Aurobindo
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Madanmohan Malavya
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
Correct Answer: (B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
WBCS Mains Revolutionary Nationalism & Movements Questions 2022
Q. The theory of Radical Humanism was put forth by
(A) Subhas Chandra Bose
(B) M. N. Roy
(C) Karl Marx
(D) Nehru
Correct Answer: (B) M. N. Roy
Q. The Tamralipta Jatiyo Sarkar was set up in
(A) Bankura
(B) Birbhum
(C) Malda
(D) Medinipur
Correct Answer: (D) Medinipur
WBCS Mains Revolutionary Nationalism & Movements Questions 2021
Q. Who was the founder of the Secret Society Abhinava Bharat?
(A) Naren
(B) Jatin Mukherjee
(C) Damodar Chapekar
(D) Ganesh Savarkar
Correct Answer: (D) Ganesh Savarkar
Q. The Chittagong Armoury Raid had been planned by
(A) Surya Sen
(B) Chandra Dutta
(C) Vidhan Ghosh
(D) Jatin Das
Correct Answer: (A) Surya Sen
Q. The two greatest women revolutionaries of the National Movement—Pritilata Waddedar and Kalpana Dutta—were the revolutionary co-workers of
(A) Surya Sen
(B) Bhagat Singh
(C) Batokeshwar Dutt
(D) Chapekar brothers
Correct Answer: (A) Surya Sen
Q. Which of the following revolutionary and terrorist organizations had a large number of young women revolutionaries?
(A) Yugantor
(B) Anushilan Samiti
(C) Bharat Mata Society
(D) Indian Republican Army
Correct Answer: (B) Anushilan Samiti
Q. Who murdered Saunders, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Lahore, for assaulting Lala Lajpat Rai?
(A) Bhagat Singh
(B) Batukeshwar Dutt
(C) Sukh Dev
(D) Raj Guru
Correct Answer: (D) Raj Guru
WBCS Mains Revolutionary Nationalism & Movements Questions 2020
Q. The Ghadar Party was founded (November 1913) at San Francisco, USA by
(A) Madam Bhikaji Cama
(B) Lala Har Dayal
(C) Shyamji Krishna Verma
(D) Both (A) and (B)
Correct Answer: (B) Lala Har Dayal
Q. Who founded the Indian Independence League (1942) in Tokyo?
(A) Taraknath Das
(B) Raja Mahendra Pratap
(C) Subhas Chandra Bose
(D) Rash Bihari Bose
Correct Answer: (D) Rash Bihari Bose
Q. Who killed Michael O’ Dyer, the Governor of Punjab, who had ordered the brutal firing on the innocent people at Jallianwala Bagh?
(A) Madan Lal Dhingra
(B) Sardar Udham Singh
(C) Sohan Singh Bhakna
(D) Kanai Lal Dutt
Correct Answer: (B) Sardar Udham Singh
Q. Who among the following was not involved with the foundation of the Anushilan Samiti of Calcutta in 1902?
(A) Promotha Mitter
(B) Abani Mukherjee
(C) Barindra Kumar Ghosh
(D) Jotindra Nath Banerjee
Correct Answer: (B) Abani Mukherjee
WBCS Mains Revolutionary Nationalism & Movements Questions 2019
Q. Match the founders of the following revolutionary organisations:
(a) Mitramela
(b) Anushilan Samiti
(c) Abhinav Bharat
(d) Swadesh Bandhab Samity
(i) G. D. Savarkar
(ii) Satishchandra Bose
(iii) V. D. Savarkar
(iv) Aswini Kumar Dutta
(A) (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
(B) (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
(C) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iv)
(D) (a)-(i), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
Correct Answer: (B) (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
Q. He was a great Indian revolutionary who was a Professor of Sanskrit and Philosophy in the Universities of Berkeley and Stanford and died as a sanyasi in Philadelphia. He was
(A) Shyamji Krishna Verma
(B) Lala Hardayal
(C) Bhai Parmanand
(D) Ram Chandra Bhardwaj
Correct Answer: (B) Lala Hardayal
Q. Madan Lal Dhingra murdered Curzon Wylie in London, who was a/an
(A) Adviser to the Secretary of State for India
(B) Secretary of State for India
(C) Former Governor of the Punjab
(D) Law Member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council
Correct Answer: (A) Adviser to the Secretary of State for India
Q. The brain behind the bomb attack on Viceroy Lord Hardinge at Chandni Chowk, Delhi in December 1912, was
(A) Rasbehari Basu
(B) Bhai Parmanand
(C) Sachindranath Sanyal
(D) Shobhan Lal Pathak
Correct Answer: (A) Rasbehari Basu
Q. Who edited a Bengali weekly the ‘Jugantor’ and ‘Basumati’?
(A) Barindra Ghosh
(B) Aurobindo Ghosh
(C) Ganesh Ghosh
(D) Anand Mohan Bose
Correct Answer: (A) Barindra Ghosh
Q. Who is regarded as ‘the Mother of Indian Revolution’?
(A) Mrs. Annie Besant
(B) Snehlata Wadkar
(C) Sarojini Naidu
(D) Madam Bhikaiji Rustom Cama
Correct Answer: (D) Madam Bhikaiji Rustom Cama
Q. Who was the first to unfurl the first Indian National Flag, the parent and precursor of the Flag of Independent India?
(A) Madam Bhikaiji Cama
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) Raja Mahendra Pratap
(D) Taraknath Das
Correct Answer: (A) Madam Bhikaiji Cama
Q. The only Indian prince who actively participated in the revolutionary movement within and outside India was
(A) Raja Mahendra Pratap
(B) Kunwar Singh
(C) Chhatrapati Sahu
(D) Raja Ripudaman Singh
Correct Answer: (A) Raja Mahendra Pratap
Q. Jatin Das, an accused in the Lahore Conspiracy Case, died after undertaking a fast of ______ days.
(A) Fifty-six
(B) Sixty-three
(C) Seventy-two
(D) Eighty-one
Correct Answer: (B) Sixty-three
Q. The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association movement ended with the death of
(A) Bhagat Singh
(B) Ram Prasad Bismil
(C) Chandra Sekhar Azad
(D) Jogesh Chandra Chatterji
Correct Answer: (C) Chandra Sekhar Azad
WBCS Mains Revolutionary Nationalism & Movements Questions 2018
Q. Indian Sociologist was published by
(A) Shyamji Krishnavarma
(B) Madam Vikhaji Kama
(C) Lala Hardayal
(D) Pandurang Kankhoje
Correct Answer: (A) Shyamji Krishnavarma
Q. The first woman state prisoner under Regulation III of 1818 was
(A) Nanibala Devi
(B) Dukoribala Debi
(C) Kalpana Dutta
(D) Bina Das
Correct Answer: (A) Nanibala Devi
Q. Who played a prominent role in smuggling arms needed for the deadly attack on Bengal Governor Sir John Anderson at Lebong Race Course, Darjeeling?
(A) Shanti Ghosh
(B) Suniti Chowdhury
(C) Vina Das
(D) Ujjwala Majumdar
Correct Answer: (D) Ujjwala Majumdar
Q. Arrange the following armed resistance in the nineteenth century against colonial rule in chronological order:
(i) Satara disturbance
(ii) Gadkari rebellion
(iii) Revolt of Rao Bharamal
(iv) Rebellion of Birabhadra Raju
(A) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
(B) (iv), (iii), (ii), (i)
(C) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)
(D) (i), (iv), (iii), (ii)
Correct Answer: (B) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii)
Q. Jatin Das, who died on September 13, 1929 after a long hunger strike in prison, had been arrested in connection with
(A) Murder of Saunders
(B) Throwing of bombs in the Assembly at Delhi
(C) Lahore Conspiracy Case
(D) Meerut Conspiracy Case
Correct Answer: (C) Lahore Conspiracy Case
Q. Who was the founder of the secret society Abhinava Bharat?
(A) Naren Bhattacharji
(B) Jatin Mukherji
(C) Ganesh Savarkar
(D) Damodar Chapekar
Correct Answer: (C) Ganesh Savarkar
Q. Subhash Chandra Bose became the supreme leader of the Indian National Army in
(A) 1940
(B) 1941
(C) 1942
(D) 1943
Correct Answer: (D) 1943
Q. Who founded the Indian Independence League (1942) in Tokyo?
(A) Taraknath Das
(B) Raja Mahendra Pratap
(C) Subhas Chandra Bose
(D) Rash Bihari Bose
Correct Answer: (D) Rash Bihari Bose
WBCS Mains Revolutionary Nationalism & Movements Questions 2017
Q. The founder president of the Gadar Party in USA was
(A) Lala Hardayal
(B) Bhai Parmanand
(C) Sohan Singh Bakhna
(D) Ramchandra Bharadwaj
Correct Answer: (C) Sohan Singh Bakhna
Q. “The Indian Struggle” is the autobiography of
(A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(B) Chittaranjan Das
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) Subhas Chandra Bose
Correct Answer: (D) Subhas Chandra Bose
Q. Who wrote to the Governor from prison: “The individual must die so that the nation may live. Today I must die so that India may win Freedom and glory.”?
(A) Jatin Das
(B) Bhagat Singh
(C) Subhas Bose
(D) Ram Prasad ‘Bismil’
Correct Answer: (D) Ram Prasad ‘Bismil’
WBCS Mains Revolutionary Nationalism & Movements Questions 2016
Q. Name the European who worked ardently for the Indian national movement and criticized the British rule by saying: “The British empire is rotten to the core, corrupt in every direction, and tyrannical and mean”:
(A) Sister Nivedita
(B) A. O. Hume
(C) William Wedderburn
(D) Mrs. Annie Besant
Correct Answer: (D) Mrs. Annie Besant
Q. When did the British pass a law making it an offence to preach nationalism?
(A) 1890
(B) 1895
(C) 1898
(D) 1904
Correct Answer: (C) 1898
Q. Who raised patriotism to the pedestal of mother worship and said: “I know my country as my mother. I adore her. I worship her”?
(A) Swami Vivekananda
(B) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
(C) Aurobindo Ghosh
(D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Correct Answer: (C) Aurobindo Ghosh
Q. During the course of which movement did the incident of Chittagong Armoury Raid take place?
(A) Non-Cooperation Movement
(B) Bardoli Satyagraha
(C) Civil Disobedience Movement
(D) Quit India Movement
Correct Answer: (C) Civil Disobedience Movement
WBCS Mains Revolutionary Nationalism & Movements Questions 2015
Q. Who was the founder of the secret society Abhinava Bharat?
(A) Naren Bhattacharji
(B) Jatin Mukherji
(C) Ganesh Savarkar
(D) Damodar Chapekar
Correct Answer: (C) Ganesh Savarkar
WBCS Mains Revolutionary Nationalism & Movements Questions 2014
Q. ‘Gadar’ Party was founded in 1913 at
(A) Bombay
(B) Punjab
(C) Calcutta
(D) San Francisco
Correct Answer: (D) San Francisco
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