Important Personalities and leader PYQ 1998 to 2021

1. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer (UPSC / IAS1999)

2. Consider the following pairs: Movement/ Organization Leader (UPSC /IAS 2016)

1) All India Anti- Untouchability League Mahatma Gandhi

2) All India Kisan Sabha Swami Sahajanand Saraswati

3) Self-Respect Movement E.V. Ramaswami Naicker

Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

3. He wrote biographies of Mazzini, Garibaldi, Shivaji and Shrikrishna; stayed in America for some time; and was also elected to the

Central Assembly. He was (UPSC /IAS 2018)

4. Who among the following were the founders of the “Hind Mazdoor Sabha” established in 1948? (UPSC /IAS2018)

5. Which among the following events happened earliest? (UPSC /IAS 2018)

6. Annie Besant was (UPSC /IAS 2013)

1) responsible for starting the Home Rule Movement

2) the founder of the Theosophical Society

3) once the President of the Indian National Congress

Select the correct statement/statements using the codes given below.

7. Who among the following started the newspaper Shome Prakash? (UPSC /IAS 2007)

8. Who among the following wrote the book Bahubivah? (UPSC /IAS 2007)

9. “Lectures from Colombo to Almora” is based on the experiences of which one of the following? (UPSC /IAS2006)

10. Consider the following statements(UPSC /IAS 2005)

1) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar founded the Bethune School at Calcutta with the main aim of encouraging education for women

2) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was the first graduate of the Calcutta University.

3) Keshav Chandra Sen’s campaign against Sati led to the enactment of a law to ban Sati by the then Governor General.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

11. Consider the following statement: (UPSC /IAS 2001)

1) Arya Samaj was founded in 1835.

2) Lala Lajpat Rai opposed the appeal of Arya Samaj to the authority of Vedas in support of

its social reform programmes.

3) Under Keshab Chandra Sen, the Brahmo Samaj campaigned for women’s education.

4) Vinoba Bhave founded the Sarvodaya Samaj to work among refugees.

Which of these statements are correct?

12. With reference to Indian National Movement, consider the following pairs: Person Position held (UPSC /IAS 2019)

1) Sir Tej Bahadur : President, All India Sapru Liberal Federation.

2) K.C. Neogy : Member, The Constituent Assembly

3) P.C. Joshi : General Secretary, Communist Party of India

Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

13. Which of the following parties were established by Dr.B.R. Ambedkar? (UPSC /IAS2012)

1) The Peasants and Workers Party of India

2) All India Scheduled Castes Federation

3) The Independent Labour Party

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

14.  Which of the following pairs are correctly matched? (UPSC /IAS1998)

1) Theodore : Mohammedan Beck Anglo-Oriental College, Aligarh

2) Illbert Bil : Ripon

3) Pherozeshah Mehta: Congress

4) Badruddin Tyabji : Muslim League

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

15. Which one of the following statements is not correct? (UPSC /IAS 1999)

16. That the per capita income in India was Rs 20 in 1867-68, was ascertained for the

first time by (UPSC /IAS 2000)

17. What was the purpose with which Sir William Wedderburn and W. S. Caine had

set up the Indian Parliamentary Committee in 1893?( UPSC /IAS 2011)

18. Who among the following was a proponent of Fabianism as a movement?

19. Who among the following used the phrase ‘Un-British’ to criticize the English colonial control of India? (UPSC /IAS 2008)

20. Which party was founded by Subhash Chandra Bose in the year 1939 after he broke away from the Congress? (UPSC /IAS 2005)

21. With reference to Indian freedom struggle, which one of the following statements is NOT correct? (UPSC /IAS 2003)

22. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the codes given

below the lists: (UPSC /IAS1999)

Codes:

23. Consider the following statements about Madam BhikajiCama : (UPSC /IAS2006)

1) Madam Cama unfurled the National Flag at the International Socialist Conference in

Paris in the year 1907.

2) Madam Cama served as private secretary to DadabhaiNaoroji.

3) Madam Cama was born to Parsi parents.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

24. Which Indian nationalist leader looked upon the war between Germany and Britain as a godsent opportunity, which

would enable Indians to exploit the situation to their advantage? (UPSC /IAS 1999)

25. The Balkan Plan for fragmentation of India was the brainchild of (UPSC /IAS2000)

26. During the Indian Freedom Struggle, who of the following raised an army called

‘Free Indian Legion’? ( UPSC /IAS2008)

27. A London branch of the All India Muslim League was established in 1908 under the presidency of ( UPSC /IAS 2001)

28. Who among the following leaders proposed to adopt Complete Independence as the goal of the Congress

in the Ahmedabad session of 1920? ( UPSC /IAS 2001)

29. During the Indian Freedom Struggle, who among the following proposed that Swaraj

should be defined as complete independence free from all foreign control? (UPSC /IAS2004)

30. Who among the following was the President of the All-India States Peoples’

Conference in 1939? (UPSC /IAS 2001)

31. During the Indian freedom struggle, the KhudaiKhidmatgars, also known as Red

Shirts, called for  (UPSC /IAS 2002)

32. With reference to the Indian freedom struggle, which one of the following

statements is not correct? (UPSC /IAS 2002)

33. The leader of the Bardoli Satyagraha (1928) was (UPSC /IAS 2003)

34. In October 1920, who of the following headed a group of Indians gathered at

Tashikent to set up a Communist Party of India? (UPSC /IAS 2005)

35. Who among the following drafted the resolution on fundamental rights for the

Karachi Session of Congress in 1931? (UPSC /IAS 2005)

36. Who among the following drafted the resolution on fundamental rights for the

Karachi Session of Congress in 1931? (UPSC /IAS 2005)

37. Who among the following was not associated with the formation of UP Kisan

Sabha in February 1918? (UPSC /IAS 2005)

38. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched? Movement/ Satyagraha Person Actively Associated

With (UPSC /IAS 2005)

1) Champaran Rajendra Prasad

2) Ahmedabad Mill Workers Morarji Desai

3) Kheda Vallabhbhai Patel

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

39. Which one of the following places was associated with Acharya VinobaBhave’s

Bhoodan Movement at the beginning of the movement? (UPSC /IAS2007)

40. Who among the following wrote the poem, Subh-e Azadi? (UPSC /IAS 2008)

41. Which one of the following was a journal brought out by Abul Kalam Azad? (UPSC /IAS 2008)

42. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below

the Lists: (UPSC /IAS2008)

43. Who among the following rejected the title of Knighthood and refused to accept

a position in the Council of the Secretary of State for India? (UPSC /IAS2008)

44. Who of the following founded the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association?(  UPSC /IAS2009)

45. In the ‘Individual Satyagraha’, Vinoba Bhave was chosen as the first Satyagrahi.

Who was the second?(UPSC /IAS 2009)

46. Who among the following Gandhian followers was a teacher by profession? (UPSC /IAS 2008)

47. Which one of the following Indian leaders was dismissed by the British from the Indian Civil Service? (UPSC 1999)