Practice Questions: 1919 to 1947

Modern Indian History practice questions with answers on Gandhi, Non-Cooperation, Dandi, Quit India, the INA, the Cabinet Mission and Partition. Try each question first.

1. Which Act of 1919 allowed detention without trial?
2. Who ordered the firing at Jallianwala Bagh?
3. Who renounced his knighthood after Jallianwala Bagh?
4. Which incident led Gandhi to withdraw the Non-Cooperation Movement?
5. Who founded the Swaraj Party?
6. When was the Kakori train robbery?
7. Which commission arrived in India in 1928 and was boycotted?
8. Who headed the committee that produced the Nehru Report?
9. Which Congress session passed the Purna Swaraj resolution?
10. On which date was the Salt law broken at Dandi?
11. What was signed on 5 March 1931?
12. Who presided over the Karachi Congress of 1931?
13. Who announced the Communal Award?
14. Which agreement was signed between Gandhi and Ambedkar?
15. In which year did the Government of India Act come into force and provincial elections take place?
16. Who moved the Lahore Resolution of 1940?
17. What was the August Offer of 1940?
18. Who led the Mission that came to India in March 1942?
19. Where was the Quit India resolution passed on 8 August 1942?
20. Who ran the Secret Congress Radio in 1942?
21. Who proclaimed the Azad Hind Government in 1943?
22. Name the three INA officers tried at the Red Fort.
23. Which three members formed the Cabinet Mission?
24. What date was Direct Action Day?
25. Who chaired the Boundary Commissions in 1947?

Answers

1. Rowlatt Act.
2. General Reginald Dyer.
3. Rabindranath Tagore.
4. Chauri Chaura (5 February 1922).
5. C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru (1923).
6. 9 August 1925.
7. Simon Commission.
8. Motilal Nehru.
9. Lahore (December 1929).
10. 6 April 1930.
11. Gandhi-Irwin Pact.
12. Vallabhbhai Patel.
13. Ramsay MacDonald (16 August 1932).
14. Poona Pact (24 September 1932).
15. 1937 (the Act was passed in 1935).
16. A.K. Fazlul Haq (23 March 1940).
17. An offer of Dominion status after the war and an expanded Viceroy's Council.
18. Sir Stafford Cripps.
19. Gowalia Tank, Bombay.
20. Usha Mehta (with Ram Manohar Lohia and others).
21. Subhas Chandra Bose (21 October 1943, Singapore).
22. Shah Nawaz Khan, P.K. Sahgal and G.S. Dhillon.
23. Pethick-Lawrence, Stafford Cripps and A.V. Alexander.
24. 16 August 1946.
25. Sir Cyril Radcliffe.

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