Deck 2: Indian Political Thinkers and Movements

Question 1

Name the leader who insisted on immediate Swaraj or self-rule.

A)Tilak
B)Nehru
C)Gandhiji
D)Gokhale

Answer 1

Tilak

Question 2

Name the thinker who defined Swaraj as people's rule instead of that of bureaucracy.

A)Gandhiji
B)Tilak
C)Nehru
D)M.N.Roy

Answer 2

Tilak

Question 3

Who is the founder of SatyashodhakSamaj

A)Pandita Ramabai
B)Savarkar
C)Jyothirao phule
D)E.V. ramasamy

Answer 3

Jyothirao phule

Question 4

Name the thinker who considered temples to be center for purity and development.

A)Lohia
B)M.N.Roy
C)Sree Narayan Guru
D)Nehru

Question 5

Message of Sree Narayana Guru became the cardinal principal of modernism.

A)socialism
B)secularis
C)democracy
D)pluralism

Question 6

The method of Sree Narayana Guru for the emancipation of untouchables was

A)sanskritization
B)westernzatio
C)coercion
D)revolution

Question 7

Who believed that Non-violence is the heart of all religions?

A)Nehru
B)Gandhij
C)Tilak
D)Bose

Question 8

Name the philosopher who wrote that "party politics has given rise to power politics"

A)Gandhij
B)Nehru
C)M.N.Roy
D)Tilak

Question 9

Who was regarded as an exponent of Religious toleration?

A)Nehru
B)savarka
C)M.N.Roy
D)Lohia

Question 10

Who is known as the Humanistic critique of Marxism?

A)Subhash Chandra Bose
B)M.N.Roy
C)Lohia
D)E.M.S

Question 11

"Reason, Romanticism and Revolution" is a major work of

A)Tilak
B)Gandhiji
C)Bose
D)M.N.Roy

Question 12

Wheel of History is written by

A)Lohia
B)M.N.Roy
C)Gandhiji
D)Nehru

Question 13

Who expounded the doctrine of Decentralised Socialism?

A)M.N.Roy
B)E.M.S
C)Lohia
D)Nehru

Question 14

Name the scholar who believed that "Corruption is eating into the vitals of our political life"

A)Nehru
B)Jayaprakash Narayanan
C)M.N.Roy
D)Gandhiji

Question 15

Ambedkar was born in

A)gujarat
B)bihar
C)maharashtra
D)west bengal

Question 16

"Evolution of Provincial Finance in British India" was the title of the PhD Thesis awarded to

A)Dr. K. N. Raj
B)Jinnah
C)Nehru
D)Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

Question 17

Who considered Social Democracy as a way of life?

A)Lohia
B)Ambedkar
C)Gandhiji
D)Nehru

Question 18

All India Anti-Untouchability League was established by

A)Gandhiji
B)Nehru
C)Ambedkar
D)Lohia

Question 19

HarijanSevakSangam was formed by

A)Nehru
B)Ambedkar
C)Gandhij
D)M.N.Roy

Question 20

Who is known as the social prophet of untouchables?

A)Gandhiji
B)Nehru
C)Lohia
D)Ambedkar

Question 21

'The high caste Hindu Woman ' was written by

A)Pandita Ramabai
B)E. V. Ramasamy
C)Gokhale
D)Tilak

Question 22

Who is known as the father of Indian Constitution?

A)B. R. Ambedkar
B)Nehru
C)Drrajendra Prasad
D)M. N. Roy

Question 23

Sree Narayana Guru's doctrines became the catalyst of

A)fundamentalism
B)liberalism
C)social reform
D)terrorism

Question 24

Name the Philosopher who recommended federal type of Government under Swaraj.

A)Nehru
B)Tilak
C)Lohia
D)M.N.Roy

Question 25

Who believed that man's ultimate goal in life was self realization

A)Nehru
B)Lohia
C)Gandhiji
D)Gokhale

Question 26

Identify the Philosopher who visualized that self realization is "seeing God face to face"

A)Nehru
B)Lohia
C)M.N.Roy
D)Gandhiji

Question 27

Who wrote that Truth and Non-violence are as old as Hills?

A)Gandhiji
B)Sree Narayana Guru
C)Lohi
D)Nehru

Question 28

Who was highly critical of both western civilization and western democracies?

A)M.N.Roy
B)Gandhiji
C)Vivekananda
D)Lohia

Question 29

Who believed that Swaraj was nor merely political liberation but human emancipation as well?

A)Nehru
B)Lohia
C)Gandhiji
D)M.N.Roy

Question 30

Name the scholar who wrote that self-rule is a unique feature of Swaraj?

A)Nehru
B)Gandhiji
C)Lohi
D)M.N.Roy

Question 31

Whose doctrine of Swaraj was rooted in Indian metaphysics and spirituality.

A)Lohia
B)M.N.Roy
C)Gandhiji
D)Nehru

Question 32

Ram Manohar Lohia was born in

A)west bengal
B)bihar
C)punjab
D)uttar pradesh

Question 33

Identify the Political thinker who was in favour of abolishing the post of collector.

A)Nehru
B)M.N.Roy
C)B. R. Ambedkar
D)Lohia

Question 34

Who was in favour of incorporation of Gandhian ideas in socialist thought?

A)Nehru
B)M.N.Roy
C)Lohia
D)Gandhiji

Question 35

Jayaprakash Narayanan was born in

A)west bengal
B)bihar
C)assam
D)tripura

Question 36

Jayaprakash Narayanan's doctrine of Total revolution is a combination of

A)seven revolutions
B)six revolutions
C)eight revolutions
D)four revolutions

Question 37

The doctrine of JP's Total Revolution was popular in

A)1970
B)1971
C)1974
D)1973

Question 38

Jayaprakash Narayanan was the greatest mass leader in Indian History after

A)Tilak
B)Gandhiji
C)Gokhale
D)M.N.Roy

Question 39

With Gandhiji's blessings, Nehru became the President of the Indian National Congress at

A)bombay
B)calcutta
C)madras
D)lahore

Question 40

Name the Philosopher who believed that the state in a soulless machine

A)Nehru
B)Gandhiji
C)Lohia
D)Ambedkar

Question 41

Who expounded the thesis that the religious basis of politics does not help social progress?

A)Lohia
B)Gandhiji
C)Nehru
D)M.N.Roy

Question 42

Who considered the State as an organization of violence and force?

A)Gandhiji
B)Nehru
C)Lohia
D)M.N.Roy

Question 43

Who believed that decentralization of power was a key concept in his theory of democracy?

A)Lohia
B)Gandhiji
C)Nehru
D)Ambedkar

Question 44

The doctrine of spiritual socialism in closely associated with.

A)Nehru
B)Lohia
C)Gandhiji
D)Ambedkar

Question 45

Gandhian socialism puts enormous emphasis on

A)society
B)state
C)community
D)individuals

Question 46

Who made Indian freedom struggle into a mass movement?

A)anne besant
B)Gandhiji
C)Tilak
D)Nehru

Question 47

Name the thinker who was highly critical of declaration of emergency.

A)Lohia
B)Gandhiji
C)Jayaprakash Narayanan
D)M.N.Roy

Question 48

Who was highly critical of Gandhian notion of caste system?

A)Ambedkar
B)Lohia
C)Nehru
D)M.N.Roy

Question 49

'Young India' was associated with writings of

A)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
B)Tilak
C)Gandhiji
D)M.N.Roy

Question 50

SamataSainik Dal formed by

A)Ambedkar
B)Gandhiji
C)Nehru
D)Lohia