Facts about India -Questions and Answers -81

2266. Joseph Francois Dupleix was the commander of the------ forces in India:

French

2267. The Permanent Settlement was enforced in ---

1793

2268. The youngest to become the Congress President:

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

2269 A spinal injury while horseback riding left this person in lifelong pain for which he wore a metal corset under his clothes. He served as the Viceroy of India. Name this person:

Curzon

2270. Congress ministers from how many provinces resigned following the instructions of High Command in 1939?

Eight

2271. He was born with a withered arm and no left hand. He was appointed Viceroy of India in 1926. Name this person:

Irwin

2272. In which session of the Indian National Congress was it proposed that the ~1:ate shall own or control the key industries, mines and means of transport?

Karachi Session, 1931

2273. Name the person who resigned his position as Viceroy of India in August 1905 because of a difference of opinion with Lord Kitchener, the British military Commander-in-Chief in India:

Curzon

2274. TI1e British Committee of Indian National Congress was formed in:

1889

2275. Name the Viceroy who undertook the restoration of the Taj Mahal:

Curzon

2276. Which day was called 'Day of Deliverance' by Muhammad Ali Jinnah?

22nd December 1939

2277. The first Indian woman to become the President of Indian National Congress:

Sarojini Naidu

2278. In which year Mahatma Gandhi became the president of indian National Congress:

1924

2279. The Governor General who made English as the medium of instruction:

William Bentick

2280. 'We shall either free India or die in the attempt; We shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery' Mahatma Gandhi said these words in connection with:

Quit India

2281. Bahadur Shah Zafar, who was deported by the British after the 1857 mutiny, died in the Rangoon jail in:

1862

2282. In which year Jawaharlal Nehru became the President of the Indian National Congress for the first time?

1929

2283. In which year Subash Chandra Bose became the President of Indian National Congress for the first time?

1938

2284. The British officer who under his own authority shot Balladur Shah Zafar's sons Mirza

Mughal, Mirza Khazir Sultan, and grandson Mirza Abu Bakr at the Khooni Darwaza:

William Hodson

2285. The Viceroy who is known as the father of Local Self Government:

Lord Ripon