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Modern Indian History Question 1:

Who among the following was elected as the President of the Indian National Congress in the year 1938 and 1939?

1. Subhash Chandra Bose
2. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
3. C Rajagopalachari
4. More than one of the above
5. None of the above

Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Modern Indian History Question 1 Detailed Solution

The correct answer is Subhash Chandra Bose.

Key Points

• Subhash Chandra Bose became the President of the Congress Party in 1938.
• Tripuri session of Congress took place in 1939.
• Subhash Chandra Bose contested for the presidentship of the Indian National Congress
• He got elected but he had to resign due to his differences with Mahatma Gandhi.
• Gandhi along with Sardar Patel supported Pattabhi Sitaramayya for the post of president
• After the resignation of Subhash Chandra Bose, Rajendra Prasad was elected as the president.

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Modern Indian History Question 2:

When did the Lahore Congress, under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru, formalise the demand of ‘Purna Swaraj’ or full independence for India?

1. June 1929
2. December 1929
3. December 1930
4. More than one of the above
5. None of the above

Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Modern Indian History Question 2 Detailed Solution

In December 1929 , under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru, the Lahore Congress formalised the demand of 'Purna Swaraj' or full independence for India.

• It was declared that 26 January 1930, would be celebrated as Independence Day when people were to take a pledge to struggle for complete independence.

Important Points

In 1929 the Congress session was held in Lahore 1929.

• This session was very significant because in this Lahore session the prominent party Indian National Congress took the resolution of Poorna Swaraj or complete independence.
• In this, the Indian tricolour flag was hoisted by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru on the bank of the Ravi river.
• Highlights of this session:
  • The Congress convention began in Lahore in December 1929 and Pandit Nehru was the president of the convention. He mentioned in this session that “there’s only one goal ahead of us, which is full freedom.”
  • The declaration of Purna Swaraj was propagated at the INC on 19th December 1929. In this session, members agreed that the Congress and Indian nationalists should fight for Purna Swaraj, or that they should rule themselves entirely independently.
  • Congress approved a motion for complete Independence and also the President of Congress hoisted the flag of Complete Freedom on the bank of the Ravi on the midnight of 31 December 1929, in front of huge crowds.
  • This was the day when for the first time the nationalists unfurled the tricolour
  • Congress hence decided to observe 26th January 1930 as the total independence or Purna Swaraj Day.

  
  Thus, it is clear that in December 1929 Lahore Congress session, under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru, formalised the demand of ‘Purna Swaraj’ or full independence for India.

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  Modern Indian History Question 3:

  Which of the following Congress leader from Bengal had radical objectives.
  1. Bipin Chandra Pal
  2. Rabindranath Tagore
  3. R C Mukherjee
  4. More than one of the above
  5. None of the above

  Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

  Option 1 : Bipin Chandra Pal

  Modern Indian History Question 3 Detailed Solution

  The mild policies of the Moderates in the Congress-led to the rise of passionate, radical nationalists, who came to be called the ‘Garam Dal’.

  • Thus the first phase of the nationalist movement came to an end with government reaction against Congress on the one hand and a split in the Congress in 1907 on the other.
  • That is why the period after 1905 till 1918 can be referred to as the ‘Era of Passionate Nationalists or Garam Dal’.
  • Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal (Lal-Bal-Pal) were important leaders of this Radical group.

  

  Important Points

  Bipin Chandra Pal:

  • Pal is known as the Father of Revolutionary Thoughts in India and was one of the freedom fighters of India.
  • Pal became a major leader of the Indian National Congress.
  • At the Madras session of the Indian National Congress held in 1887, Bipin Chandra Pal made a strong plea for repeal of the Arms Act which was discriminatory in nature.
  • Along with Lala Lajpat Rai and Bal Gangadhar Tilak he belonged to the Lal-Bal-Pal trio that was associated with revolutionary activity.
  • Sri Aurobindo Ghosh and Pal were recognised as the chief exponents of a new national movement revolving around the ideals of Purna Swaraj, Swadeshi, boycott and national education.
  • He had no faith in mild protests in the form of non-cooperation with the British colonial government.

  
  Thus, we can say that Bipin Chandra Pal was the Congress leader from Bengal with radical objectives.

  

  Additional Information

  • Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath – poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • Raja Ram Mohan Roy was an Indian reformer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a social-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinent.