WBCS (West Bengal) · West Bengal — History & Culture
Bengal in the Freedom Movement
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- Q1easy
The Partition of Bengal, which came into effect in 1905 and triggered the Swadeshi Movement, was carried out during the viceroyalty of which British official?
- ALord Curzon
- BLord Minto
- CLord Hardinge
- DLord Dufferin
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Correct answer: (A) Lord Curzon
Lord Curzon, as Viceroy of India, announced and implemented the Partition of Bengal, effective 16 October 1905, on the stated ground of administrative convenience.
- Q2easy
The song 'Amar Sonar Bangla', written during the anti-partition agitation and later adopted as the national anthem of Bangladesh, was composed by whom?
- ARabindranath Tagore
- BBankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- CDwijendralal Ray
- DRajanikanta Sen
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Correct answer: (A) Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore composed 'Amar Sonar Bangla' during the 1905 Swadeshi agitation against the Partition of Bengal.
- Q3easy
The Chittagong Armoury Raid of 1930 was planned and led by which revolutionary, popularly known as 'Masterda'?
- ASurya Sen
- BBagha Jatin
- CBarindra Kumar Ghosh
- DPulin Behari Das
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Correct answer: (A) Surya Sen
Surya Sen, a schoolteacher nicknamed 'Masterda', led the group that raided the Chittagong armouries in April 1930.
- Q4easy
In 1908 a teenage revolutionary threw a bomb at Muzaffarpur intending to kill Magistrate Douglas Kingsford but instead killed two English women; hanged the same year, he is remembered as one of the youngest martyrs of the movement. Who was he?
- AKhudiram Bose
- BPrafulla Chaki
- CBagha Jatin
- DKanailal Dutta
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Correct answer: (A) Khudiram Bose
Khudiram Bose, aged 18, was hanged in 1908 for the Muzaffarpur bombing that was aimed at Kingsford; his accomplice Prafulla Chaki shot himself to avoid arrest.
- Q5medium
The Partition of Bengal was annulled in 1911. This announcement, together with the transfer of British India's capital from Calcutta to Delhi, was made at the Delhi Durbar by which monarch?
- AKing George V
- BQueen Victoria
- CKing Edward VII
- DKing George VI
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Correct answer: (A) King George V
King George V announced the annulment of the partition and the shift of the capital to Delhi at the Delhi Durbar of 1911.
- Q6medium
The revolutionary Jatindranath Mukherjee, known as 'Bagha Jatin', was fatally wounded in a 1915 gunfight with police on the banks of which river near Balasore?
- ABuribalam
- BSubarnarekha
- CRupnarayan
- DDamodar
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Correct answer: (A) Buribalam
Bagha Jatin died after the armed encounter at the Buribalam (Burha Balang) river near Balasore in September 1915.
- Q7medium
In the 1930 Writers' Building attack in Calcutta, the trio Binoy, Badal and Dinesh shot dead N.S. Simpson, who held which office?
- AInspector General of Prisons
- BPolice Commissioner of Calcutta
- CDistrict Magistrate of Dacca
- DGovernor of Bengal
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Correct answer: (A) Inspector General of Prisons
The three revolutionaries killed Colonel N.S. Simpson, the Inspector General of Prisons, notorious for oppression of political prisoners; Dalhousie Square was later renamed B.B.D. Bagh in their honour.
- Q8medium
The Anushilan Samiti, one of Bengal's earliest revolutionary societies, was founded in Calcutta in 1902. Who served as its first president?
- APramatha Nath Mitra
- BBarindra Kumar Ghosh
- CRash Behari Bose
- DSurya Sen
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Correct answer: (A) Pramatha Nath Mitra
The barrister Pramatha Nath Mitra (P. Mitra) was the first president of the Anushilan Samiti, which was organisationally founded by Satish Chandra Basu.
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