1. Consider the following statement. 'We believe that it is the inalienable right of the Indian people as of any other people, to have freedom and to enjoy the fruits of their toil and have the necessities of life so that they may have full opportunities of growth.' Identify the correct context of this statement from below.

2. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists:List I List II (Book/Journal) (Author/Editor)
A. Bande Mataram 1. Aurobindo Ghosh
B. New India 2. Mahatma Gandhi
C. India Today 3. Bipin Chandra Pal
D. Young India 4. R. P DuttCode: A B C D

3. What is the common element among Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Rajendra Lahiri ?

4. Disciples of which one of the leaders in Bengal during the Indian freedom struggle were called Yound Bengal?

5. Consider the following statement No Indian could have started the Indian National congress.. If the founder of the congress had not been a great Englishman and a distinguished ex-official, such was the distrust of political agitation in those days that the authority would have at once found some way or the other to suppress the movement. Who among the following gave the statement on the establishment of Indian National Congress?

6. DIRECTIONS (Qs. 62-64) : The next three (03) items are based on the passage given below. The myth is that the Indian National Congress was started by A.O. Hume and others under the official direction, guidance and advice of no less a person than Lord Dufferin, the Viceroy, to provide a safe, mild, peaceful and constitutional outlet of safetyvalve for the rising discontent among the masses, which was inevitably leading towards a popular and violent revolution. Consequently, the revolutionary potential was nipped in the bud. Most writers accept the core of the myth, that a violent revolution was on the cards at the time and was avoided only by the foundations of the congress,…….. All of them agree that the manner of its birth affected the basic character and future work of the congress in a crucial manner.
62. The colonial rulers, according to the safety valve thesis, were trying to use congress as

7. The British Officer who was a representative of the Governor General and who lived in a State which was not under direct British rule was called:

8. With reference to the Indian Freedom struggle, which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the given events ?

9. Which of the following features of the Permanent Settlement of 1793 is / are correct?
1. The Permanent Settlement vested Land ownership rights in the peasants
2. The Permanent Settlement vested land ownership rights in the Zamindars
3. The Zamindars had to pay a fixed amount of rent by a particular date
4. The Zamindars benefited hugely from the Permanent Settlement while the peasants suffered Select the correct answer using the code given below:

10. During the Civil Disobedience Movement, tribals in Chota Nagpur
1. gave up opium consumption
2. wore Khadi
3. gave up drinking liquor and eating meat. Select the correct answer using the code given below.

11. The Passive Resistance Association was first formed by Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa in 1906 to organize a campaign against the introduction of

12. The Rowlatt Act was passed to

13. Which of the following statements is/are correct about the working of the Permanent Settlement in Bengal?
1. The traditional Zamindars lost their lands.
2. The reason for the Zamindars' inability to pay up land revenues was that the Ryots defaulted on payment of revenue.
3. A new group of farmers – the Jotedars – became influential.
4. The Collector replaced the Zamindars as the alternative focus of authority Select the correct answer using the code given below.

14. The Haripura Congress (1938) remains a milestone in Indian freedom struggle, because

15. Gandhiji's 'Harijan Campaign' sought to
1. attack caste system as a whole
2. open wells, road, temples, etc to Harijans
3. encourage social work among Harijans Select the correct answer using the code given below.

16. Consider the following statements about Gandhiji's thinking on environment.
1. His environmental thinking is rooted in his larger philosophical and moral thinking.
2. He preferred sustainable environmental practices to nourish the soil and the natural world.
3. He laid emphasis on the rigorous ethic of non-injury in our treatment of animals. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

17. Consider the following statements:
1. The East India Company for the first time through the Charter Act of 1813, adopted a provision to spend one lakh rupees per annum for the spread of education in India.
2. The Wood’s Dispatch of 1854 recommended the establishment of one university each in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras on the model of the London University. Which one of the statements given above is/are correct ?

18. '… it has reduced us politically to serfdom. It has sapped the foundations of our culture … it has degraded us spiritually.' This was Mahatma Gandhi complaining of the ill-effect on Indians of which action/policy of the colonial government?

19. Which one among the following was the major demand of the Bardauli Satyagraha (1928) organised under the leadership of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel?

20. Which one among the following statements about Civil Disobedience Movement is correct?

21. The Salt Satyagraha called by Mahatma Gandhi saw the
1. violation of salt laws along coastal India
2. participation of women
3. upward swing when it came to the working class joining in Select the correct answer using the code given below.

22. Which one among the following statements relating to the Home Rule movement is not correct ?

23. Consider the following statements :
1. Consequent to the recommendations of the Simon Commission, Three Round Table Conferences were held in Simla, Delhi and Calcutta. 2. The Government of India Act, 1935 contained support towards self-government which was first proposed in the Montagu-Chelmsford Report. Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

24. Mahatma Gandhi’s Hindu Swaraj is essentially

25. The Indian National Congress was founded during the Viceroyalty of