[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2021: INSIGHTS STATIC , 27 August 2021 – History

Solution: d)

The Pacific Coast Hindustan Association, known as the Ghadar Party was founded in 1913 to free India from British slavery.

The headquarters of the association was established initially at San Francisco and named as “Yugantar Ashram.”

Solution: b)

The newspapers and journals advocating revolutionary activity after the failure of Swadeshi movement included Sandhya and Yugantar in Bengal and Kal in Maharashtra.

Solution: c)

The Ghadar Party was a revolutionary group organized around a weekly newspaper ‘The Ghadar’ with its headquarters at San Francisco and branches along the US coast and in the Far East.

The Ghadar programme was to organize assassinations of officials, publish revolutionary and anti-imperialist literature, and work among Indian troops stationed abroad, procure arms and bring about a simultaneous revolt in all British colonies.

The moving spirits behind the Ghadar Party were Lala Hardayal, Bhagwan Singh Gyanee, Kartar Singh Saraba, Bark Bhai Parmanand.

Surya Sen was a Bengali Indian revolutionary who was influential in the Indian independence movement against British rule in India and is best known for leading the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid.

Solution: a)

• The draft constitution was prepared which was called “Nehru Committee Report“. This report was submitted on August 28, 1928 at the Lucknow conference of all the parties.

The main points of the Nehru report were as follows:

• India would be given Dominion status. This means independence within the British Commonwealth. India will be a federation which shall have a bicameral legislature at the centre and Ministry would be responsible to the legislature.
• Governor General of India would be the constitutional head of India and will have the same powers as that of British Crown. There will be no separate electorate. The draft report also defined the citizenship and fundamental rights.

Solution: b)

Appointment of Simon Commission: November 8, 1927

Jinnah’s fourteen points as against Nehru Report was given in March 1929.

First Round Table Conference (November 1930 – January 1931)

Poona Pact was signed by B.R. Ambedkar on behalf of the depressed classes on September 24, 1932, which abandoned the idea of separate electorate for the depressed classes.