Political Thought- Indian Traditions Multiple Choice Questions
1. Swami Vivekananda was the chief disciple of whom ?
A. swami dayanan
B. ramakrishna paramahsa
C. rajaram mohan ro
D. lohia
Answer: B. ramakrishna paramahsa
2. Who is regarded as the father of Indian Renaissance?
A. dayananda saraswathy
B. tilak
C. raja ram mohan roy
D. gandhiji
Answer: C. raja ram mohan roy
3. Who is the founder of Atmiyasabha?
A. dayananda saraswathy
B. raja ram mohan rao
C. tilak
D. gandhiji
Answer: B. raja ram mohan rao
4. In which year Swami Vivekananda Visited Chicago?
A. 1863
B. 177
C. 1770
D. 1893
Answer: D. 1893
5. Who is regarded as the prophet of Indian Nationalism?
A. tilak
B. aurobindo ghos
C. gandhiji
D. ram mohan roy
Answer: D. ram mohan roy
6. National youth day is celebrated in the memory of:
A. tilak
B. nehr
C. swami vivekananda
D. gandhiji
Answer: C. swami vivekananda
7. ‘My Master’ was written by
A. tila
B. swami vivekand
C. tagore
D. subashchandrabose
Answer: B. swami vivekand
8. Who is the author of ‘The Life Divine’
A. aurobindo ghosh
B. m.n roy
C. nehru
D. ambedkar
Answer: A. aurobindo ghosh
9. Name the congress leader who presided over the Banaras Congress session in 1905.
A. gopakakrishnagokhale
B. gandhiji
C. subhash chandra bose
D. nehru
Answer: A. gopakakrishnagokhale
10. ‘ Servants of India Society’ was established in
A. 1906
B. 190
C. 1915
D. 1916
Answer: B. 190
11. Name the philosopher who believed that freedom is the keynote of spiritual life.?
A. gopalakrishnagokhale
B. nehr
C. ambedkar
D. vivekananda
Answer: D. vivekananda
12. The International day of Non-violence is observed on 2nd October, the Birthday of —–
A. vivekananda
B. gokhal
C. jawaharlal lal nehru
D. m .k. gandhi
Answer: D. m .k. gandhi
13. Who give the name ‘Gurudev’ to Tagore?
A. gandhij
B. tila
C. vivekanda
D. nehru
Answer: A. gandhij
14. Who is the political Guru of Gandhiji?
A. tagore
B. vivekanand
C. gokhale
D. nehru
Answer: C. gokhale
15. Which decision of Gandhiji was opposed by Ambedkar?
A. partitioning india
B. calling the lower castes ‘harijans?
C. quit india movement
D. satyagraha movement.
Answer: B. calling the lower castes ‘harijans?
16. Name the magazine published by Ambedkar?
A. young india
B. swara
C. news india
D. mooknayak
Answer: D. mooknayak
17. Tilak regarded that Swaraj was not only a right but a
A. justice
B. dharm
C. power
D. status
Answer: B. dharm
18. SNDP Yogam was formed in the year
A. 1903
B. 189
C. 1908
D. 1914
Answer: A. 1903
19. The doctrine of Ramarajya was expounded by
A. tilak
B. gokhale
C. gandhiji
D. nehru
Answer: C. gandhiji
20. Who is the Champion of secularism?
A. jinnah
B. nehr
C. savarkar
D. tilak
Answer: B. nehr
21. Who regarded the villages as the center of Indian economic organisation?
A. gandhiji
B. vivekananda
C. raja ram mohan roy
D. tilak
Answer: A. gandhiji
22. Gandhism is not merely a political creed, it is
A. a programme of action
B. a messag
C. theory
D. working class movement
Answer: B. a messag
23. ‘January 30 ‘ is commemorated as ——- in India
A. martyr’s day
B. freedom day
C. republic day
D. slaves day
Answer: A. martyr’s day
24. Who is regarded as the pragmatic social reformer?
A. nehru
B. tila
C. sree narayana guru
D. mahathma gandhi
Answer: C. sree narayana guru
25. B.R Ambedkar founded the All India Untouchables League in:
A. 1929
B. 1930
C. 1932
D. 1933
Answer: C. 1932
26. Doctrine of Total Revolution was expounded by
A. jayaprakash narayanan
B. m.n ro
C. gandhiji
D. thilak
Answer: A. jayaprakash narayanan
27. Radical Democratic party was organised by
A. lohia
B. m.n.ro
C. jayaprakash narayanan
D. thilak
Answer: B. m.n.ro
28. Who is the champion of the doctrine of ‘social revolution through human Revolution’?
A. m.n.roy
B. lohi
C. jayaprakash narayanan
D. nehru
Answer: C. jayaprakash narayanan
29. The famous work of Jyothi Rao Phule
A. life divine
B. arthashastra
C. gulamgiri
D. my experiments with truth
Answer: C. gulamgiri
30. The concept of four pillar state was advocated by
A. lohia
B. m.n.ro
C. nehru
D. ambedkar
Answer: A. lohia
31. Who considered Jinnah as an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity?
A. gandhiji
B. tila
C. gokhale
D. vivekananda
Answer: C. gokhale
32. Who is known as the spiritual father of Pakistan
A. muhammed ali jinnah
B. muhammed iqbal
C. syed ahmed
D. abdul ghaffer khan
Answer: B. muhammed iqbal
33. The important philosophic work of Muhammed Iqbal
A. the reconstruction of religious though ian islam
B. life divine
C. savitri
D. the
Answer: A. the reconstruction of religious though ian islam
34. Who started the self respect movement and DravidaKazhagam
A. anna durai
B. e.v. ramasamy
C. c rajagopalchari
D. c. kuppusami
Answer: B. e.v. ramasamy
35. Who is the author of Discovery of India?
A. gandhiji
B. vivekanand
C. nehru
D. gokhale
Answer: C. nehru
36. B.R. Ambedkar was born in
A. 1891
B. 189
C. 1898
D. 1901
Answer: A. 1891
37. Who is regarded as one of the earliest scholars of comparative religion?
A. gandhiji
B. ambedka
C. raja ram mohan roy
D. tilak
Answer: C. raja ram mohan roy
38. Freedom of press was advocated by
A. dayananda saraswathy
B. mussolin
C. hitler
D. raja ram mohan roy
Answer: D. raja ram mohan roy
39. Name the political thinker who appreciated British rule in India
A. raja ram mohan roy
B. tila
C. subhash chandra bose
D. gandhiji
Answer: A. raja ram mohan roy
40. Identity the Philosopher who advocated the doctrine of Humanism and Universalism
A. syed khan
B. jinna
C. raja ram mohan roy
D. tilak
Answer: C. raja ram mohan roy
41. Name the political thinker who expounded liberal humanitarian nationalism.
A. tilak
B. raja ram mohan ro
C. dr.ambedkar
D. m.n.roy
Answer: B. raja ram mohan ro
42. Raja Ram Mohan Roy died in
A. 1930
B. 193
C. 1932
D. 1833
Answer: D. 1833
43. Who recommended that religious toleration was crucial for the growth of democracy?
A. raja ram mohan roy
B. tila
C. vivekananda
D. bose
Answer: C. vivekananda
44. Identify the Philosopher who was living at a crucial time when liberalism was at the crossroad.
A. m.n.roy
B. nehr
C. kautilya
D. gokhale
Answer: D. gokhale
45. Who made scathing attack on the oppressiveness and harshness of bureaucracy?
A. tilak
B. raja ram mohan ro
C. syed khan
D. gokhale
Answer: D. gokhale
46. Who described Gokhale as the “diamond of India, the Jewel of Maharashtra”?
A. bose
B. nehr
C. lohi
D. tilak
Answer: D. tilak
47. Whose role in the Indian National Congress was that of an agitator?
A. tilak
B. gokhal
C. ranade
D. nehru
Answer: A. tilak
48. Who introduced extremist national sentiments in the Congress?
A. nehru
B. gandhij
C. gokhale
D. tilak
Answer: D. tilak
49. Who was regarded as the Bismark of Indian Nationalism?
A. gandhiji
B. nehr
C. sardarvallabhbhai patel
D. ambedkar
Answer: C. sardarvallabhbhai patel
50. Who was a believer in the Advaita Philosophy?
A. ambedkar
B. vivekand
C. gandhiji
D. nehru
Answer: B. vivekand
51. Name the leader who insisted on immediate Swaraj or self-rule.
A. tilak
B. nehr
C. gandhiji
D. gokhale
Answer: A. tilak
52. Name the thinker who defined Swaraj as people’s rule instead of that of bureaucracy.
A. gandhiji
B. tila
C. nehru
D. m.n.roy
Answer: B. tila
53. Who is the founder of SatyashodhakSamaj
A. Pandita Ramabai
B. Savarkar
C. Jyothirao phule
D. E.V. ramasamy
Answer: C. Jyothirao phule
54. Name the thinker who considered temples to be center for purity and development.
A. lohia
B. m.n.ro
C. sree narayan guru
D. nehru
Answer: C. sree narayan guru
55. Message of Sree Narayana Guru became the cardinal principal of modernism.
A. socialism
B. secularis
C. democracy
D. pluralism
Answer: B. secularis
56. The method of Sree Narayana Guru for the emancipation of untouchables was
A. sanskritization
B. westernzatio
C. coercion
D. revolution
Answer: A. sanskritization
57. Who believed that Non-violence is the heart of all religions?
A. nehru
B. gandhij
C. tilak
D. bose
Answer: B. gandhij
58. Name the philosopher who wrote that “party politics has given rise to power politics”
A. gandhij
B. nehr
C. m.n.roy
D. tilak
Answer: C. m.n.roy
59. Who was regarded as an exponent of Religious toleration?
A. nehru
B. savarka
C. m.n.roy
D. lohia
Answer: A. nehru
60. Who is known as the Humanistic critique of Marxism?
A. subhash chandra bose
B. m.n.roy
C. lohia
D. e.m.s
Answer: B. m.n.roy
61. “Reason, Romanticism and Revolution” is a major work of
A. tilak
B. gandhiji
C. bos
D. m.n.roy
Answer: D. m.n.roy
62. Wheel of History is written by
A. lohia
B. m.n.roy
C. gandhiji
D. nehru
Answer: A. lohia
63. Who expounded the doctrine of Decentralised Socialism?
A. m.n.roy
B. e.m.s
C. lohia
D. nehru
Answer: C. lohia
64. 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
Answer: D. gandhiji
65. Ambedkar was born in
A. gujarat
B. bihar
C. maharashtra
D. west bengal
Answer: C. maharashtra
66. “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
Answer: D. dr.b.r. ambedkar
67. Who considered Social Democracy as a way of life?
A. lohia
B. ambedkar
C. gandhiji
D. nehru
Answer: B. ambedkar
68. All India Anti-Untouchability League was established by
A. gandhiji
B. nehru
C. ambedkar
D. lohia
Answer: A. gandhiji
69. HarijanSevakSangam was formed by
A. nehru
B. ambedkar
C. gandhij
D. m.n.roy
Answer: C. gandhij
70. Who is known as the social prophet of untouchables?
A. gandhiji
B. nehru
C. lohia
D. ambedkar
Answer: D. ambedkar
71. ‘The high caste Hindu Woman ‘ was written by
A. panditaramabai
B. ev ramasamy
C. gokhale
D. tilak
Answer: A. panditaramabai
72. Who is known as the father of Indian Constitution?
A. b r ambedkar
B. nehru
C. drrajendra prasad
D. m n roy
Answer: A. b r ambedkar
73. Sree Narayana Guru’s doctrines became the catalyst of
A. fundamentalism
B. liberalism
C. social reform
D. terrorism
Answer: C. social reform
74. Name the Philosopher who recommended federal type of Government under Swaraj.
A. nehru
B. tilak
C. lohia
D. m.n.roy
Answer: C. lohia
75. Who believed that man’s ultimate goal in life was self realization
A. nehru
B. lohia
C. gandhiji
D. gokhale
Answer: C. gandhiji
76. Identify the Philosopher who visualized that self realization is “seeing God face to face”
A. nehru
B. lohia
C. m.n.roy
D. gandhiji
Answer: D. gandhiji
77. Who wrote that Truth and Non-violence are as old as Hills?
A. gandhiji
B. sree narayana guru
C. lohi
D. nehru
Answer: A. gandhiji
78. Who was highly critical of both western civilization and western democracies?
A. m.n.roy
B. gandhiji
C. vivekananda
D. lohia
Answer: B. gandhiji
79. Who believed that Swaraj was nor merely political liberation but human emancipation as well?
A. nehru
B. lohia
C. gandhiji
D. m.n.roy
Answer: C. gandhiji
80. Name the scholar who wrote that self-rule is a unique feature of Swaraj?
A. nehru
B. gandhiji
C. lohi
D. m.n.roy
Answer: B. gandhiji
81. Whose doctrine of Swaraj was rooted in Indian metaphysics and spirituality.
A. lohia
B. m.n.roy
C. gandhiji
D. nehru
Answer: C. gandhiji
82. Ram Manohar Lohia was born in
A. west bengal
B. bihar
C. punjab
D. uttar pradesh
Answer: D. uttar pradesh
83. 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
Answer: D. lohia
84. Who was in favour of incorporation of Gandhian ideas in socialist thought?
A. nehru
B. m.n.roy
C. lohia
D. gandhiji
Answer: C. lohia
85. Jayaprakash Narayanan was born in
A. west bengal
B. bihar
C. assam
D. tripura
Answer: B. bihar
86. Jayaprakash Narayanan’s doctrine of Total revolution is a combination of
A. seven revolutions
B. six revolutions
C. eight revolutions
D. four revolutions
Answer: A. seven revolutions
87. The doctrine of JP’s Total Revolution was popular in
A. 1970
B. 1971
C. 1974
D. 1973
Answer: C. 1974
88. Jayaprakash Narayanan was the greatest mass leader in Indian History after
A. tilak
B. gandhiji
C. gokhale
D. m.n.roy
Answer: B. gandhiji
89. With Gandhiji’s blessings, Nehru became the President of the Indian National Congress at
A. bombay
B. calcutta
C. madras
D. lahore
Answer: D. lahore
90. Name the Philosopher who believed that the state in a soulless machine
A. nehru
B. gandhiji
C. lohia
D. ambedkar
Answer: B. gandhiji
91. 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
Answer: C. nehru
92. Who considered the State as an organization of violence and force?
A. gandhiji
B. nehru
C. lohia
D. m.n.roy
Answer: A. gandhiji
93. Who believed that decentralization of power was a key concept in his theory of democracy?
A. lohia
B. gandhiji
C. nehru
D. ambedkar
Answer: B. gandhiji
94. The doctrine of spiritual socialism in closely associated with.
A. nehru
B. lohia
C. gandhiji
D. ambedkar
Answer: C. gandhiji
95. Gandhian socialism puts enormous emphasis on
A. society
B. state
C. community
D. individuals
Answer: D. individuals
96. Who made Indian freedom struggle into a mass movement?
A. anne besant
B. gandhiji
C. tilak
D. nehru
Answer: B. gandhiji
97. Name the thinker who was highly critical of declaration of emergency.
A. lohia
B. gandhiji
C. jayaprakash narayanan
D. m.n.roy
Answer: C. jayaprakash narayanan
98. Who was highly critical of Gandhian notion of caste system?
A. ambedkar
B. lohia
C. nehru
D. m.n.roy
Answer: A. ambedkar
99. ‘Young India’ was associated with writings of
A. raja ram mohan roy
B. tilak
C. gandhiji
D. m.n.roy
Answer: C. gandhiji
100. SamataSainik Dal formed by
A. ambedkar
B. gandhiji
C. nehru
D. lohia
Answer: A. ambedkar
101. Poona part was signed between Congress and
A. jinnah
B. ambedkar
C. bose
D. tilak
Answer: B. ambedkar
102. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh was
A. a great metaphysician
B. a great poe
C. a great systematic thinker
D. all of the above.
Answer: D. all of the above.
103. Name the scholar who rebelled against oppressions and repressions by the upper castes.
A. gokhale
B. lohia
C. vivekananda
D. gandhiji
Answer: C. vivekananda
104. Who was a believer in moderation with regard to social change?
A. vivekananda
B. tilak
C. ambedkar
D. m.n.roy
Answer: A. vivekananda
105. Identify the Philosopher who remarked that “it is mockery to offer religion to a starving man”
A. gandhiji
B. tilak
C. ambedka
D. vivekananda
Answer: D. vivekananda
106. Whose theory of Social change was based on the Indian conception of history?
A. vivekananda
B. nehru
C. gokhale
D. m.n.roy
Answer: A. vivekananda
107. Name the Philosopher who wrote that all material property was a social trust.
A. lohia
B. nehru
C. gandhij
D. ambedkar
Answer: C. gandhij
108. ’Guilty men of India’s Partition’is a work by:
A. jayaprakash narayan
B. m.n.roy
C. lohia
D. nehru
Answer: C. lohia
109. The trio Lal- Bal- Pal , Lal represents
A. balagangadartilak
B. bibin chandra pal
C. gopala krishna gokhale
Answer: D.
110. The trio Lal- Bal- Pal , Bal represents
A. balagangadartilak
B. bibin chandra pal
C. gopala krishna gokhale
Answer: A. balagangadartilak
111. The trio Lal- Bal- Pal , Pal represents
A. balagangadartilak
B. bibin chandra pal
C. gopala krishna gokhale
D. lala
Answer: B. bibin chandra pal
112. Who is popularly known as ‘ Lokmanya’
A. balagangadartilak
B. bibin chandra pal
C. gopala krishna gokhale
Answer: A. balagangadartilak
113. Who said ,‘Swaraj is my birth right’ ?
A. balagangadartilak
B. bibin chandra pal
C. gopala krishna gokhale
Answer: A. balagangadartilak
114. Who called Gandhi‘Mahatma’
A. vinobabhav
B. ambedka
C. tilak
D. tagore
Answer: D. tagore
115. Who is called as the ‘father of Indian unrest’
A. balagangadartila
B. bibin chandra pal
C. gopala krishna gokhal
D. lalalajpat
Answer: A. balagangadartila
116. Where did M.K.Gandhi experiment “Sathyagraha’ in India first?
A. champara
B. jallianvalabagh
C. bombay
D. porbandher
Answer: A. champara
117. Who scolded Gandhi as ‘ a half-naked fakkir’?
A. winstonchurchil.
B. clement attlee.
C. mount batten
D. margret thacter
Answer: A. winstonchurchil.
118. Brahma Samaj was founded by:
A. dayanandhasaraswathy
B. swami vivekanand
C. tilak
D. raja ram mohan roy
Answer: D. raja ram mohan roy
119. Who was the contemporary of Hegel:
A. raja ram mohan roy
B. swami vivekanand
C. tilak
D. gandhiji
Answer: A. raja ram mohan roy
120. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born in
A. 1883
B. 177
C. 1750
D. 1790
Answer: B. 177
121. Swami Vivekanda was born in which place
A. delhi
B. calcutta
C. madras
D. mumbay
Answer: B. calcutta
122. ’Anheliation of Caste’ is written by
A. gopalakrishnagokhale
B. ambedkar
C. tilak
D. nehru
Answer: B. ambedkar
123. Who proposed the idea of Party lessDemocracy?
A. savarkar
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindoghos
D. jaya prakash narayanan.
Answer: D. jaya prakash narayanan.
124. who called Dalits as Harijans?
A. gopalakrishnagokhale
B. tagore
C. tilak
D. gandhiji
Answer: D. gandhiji
125. ’.Discovery of India’ is written by
A. gopalakrishnagokhale
B. ambedka
C. tilak
D. nehru
Answer: D. nehru
126. Who told Nationalism is a Menace
A. gopalakrishnagokhale
B. tagor
C. tilak
D. nehru
Answer: B. tagor
127. ‘ Why Iam a Hindu.’ is written by
A. raja ram mohan roy
B. swami vivekanand
C. sasitharoor
D. gandhiji
Answer: C. sasitharoor
128. The idea of Radical Democracy was proposed by
A. savarkar
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindo ghos
D. m.nroy
Answer: D. m.nroy
129. Who is known as Indian Machiavelli
A. raja ram mohan roy
B. swami vivekanand
C. chanakya
D. gandhiji
Answer: C. chanakya
130. ‘Arthasastra’is authoured by
A. raja ram mohan roy
B. swami vivekanand
C. chanakya
D. gandhiji
Answer: C. chanakya
131. .’ Manu Smrithi’ is written by
A. manu
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindo ghosh
D. chanakya
Answer: A. manu
132. Who is known as Modern Manu
A. gopalakrishnagokhale
B. ambedka
C. tilak
D. nehru
Answer: B. ambedka
133. What is the other name of Chanakya
A. manu
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindo ghosh
D. kautaliya
Answer: D. kautaliya
134. Varnasrama system was proposed by
A. manu
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindo ghosh
D. chanakya
Answer: A. manu
135. ‘ ReasonRomanticism and Revolution’ was written by
A. savarkar
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindoghos
D. m.nroy
Answer: D. m.nroy
136. Nehruvian idea of Socialism was influenced from
A. radical
B. marxism
C. fabian
D. utopian
Answer: C. fabian
137. ’ Gita Rahasya ‘is written by
A. savarkar
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindoghos
D. m.nroy
Answer: C. aurobindoghos
138. ’Young India’ was published under the leadership of
A. gandhiji
B. ambedka
C. tilak
D. nehru
Answer: A. gandhiji
139. The book’Moved by love ‘was written by
A. vinobhabhave
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindoghos
D. m.nroy
Answer: A. vinobhabhave
140. ’Bhoodan’ movement was started by
A. vinobhabhave
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindoghos
D. m.nroy
Answer: A. vinobhabhave
141. In which year Swami Vivekanda visited Kerala
A. 1895
B. 1899
C. 1894
D. 1892
Answer: D. 1892
142. ‘ Poverty and Un British rule in India’ is written by
A. lalalajpat rai
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindoghos
D. dadabainaoroji
Answer: D. dadabainaoroji
143. .“ The European and Asiatic races” is the work of
A. lalalajpat rai
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindoghos
D. dadabainaoroji
Answer: D. dadabainaoroji
144. ‘ Hind Swaraj’ is written by
A. lalalajpatrai
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindoghos
D. dadabainaoroji
Answer: B. gandhiji
145. ‘Glimpses of world History’ was written by
A. gandhiji
B. ambedka
C. tilak
D. nehru
Answer: D. nehru
146. Who organized the secret society of ‘Lotus and Dagger’ for the uplift of motherland.
A. vinobabhav
B. ambedka
C. tilak
D. aurobindo ghosh
Answer: D. aurobindo ghosh
147. ’Who were Shudras‘ is written by
A. vinobabhave
B. ambedka
C. tilak
D. nehru
Answer: B. ambedka
148. The book’ Village Swaraj’ is written by
A. gandhiji
B. ambedkar
C. tilak
D. nehru
Answer: A. gandhiji
149. Who founded communist party of Mexico
A. savarkar
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindoghos
D. m.nroy
Answer: D. m.nroy
150. The work ‘Ancient Wisdom’ is authored by
A. “annie besant?
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindoghos
D. m.n roy
Answer: A. “annie besant?
151. ‘Gramthan’ movement was started by
A. vinobhabhave
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindoghos
D. m.nroy
Answer: A. vinobhabhave
152. ’.Poverty or Plenty’ is written by
A. annie besant
B. gandhiji
C. arundathi roy
D. m.n roy
Answer: D. m.n roy
153. ’ The Secret of Veda’ is written by
A. savarkar
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindoghos
D. m.nroy
Answer: C. aurobindoghos
154. The Saptanga theory of State was proposed by
A. manu
B. gandhiji
C. aurobindo ghosh
D. kautaliya
Answer: D. kautaliya