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71. Which Indian leader for the first time used the ‘safety-valve theory’ to attack the Moderates in the Congress? (A) Bipin Chandra Pal (B) Lala Lajpat Rai (C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (D) Dadabhai Naoroji
Answer: (B) Lala Lajpat Rai in 1909 (Young India) accused INC of being a British “safety valve”.
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72. At which Viceroy was a bomb thrown on the occasion of his state entry into Delhi? (A) Lord Curzon (B) Lord Minto (C) Lord Hardinge (D) Lord Wavell
Answer: (C) Delhi Conspiracy Case (1912): Bomb on Lord Hardinge by Rash Behari Bose.
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73. Who got an opportunity to become Professor of Indian Philosophy in the University of California in 1911? (A) Sohan Singh Bhakna (B) Virendranath Chattopadhyay (C) Har Dayal (D) Shyamji Krishna Varma
Answer: (C) Har Dayal appointed in 1911 at UC Berkeley (later resigned).
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74. Name the Principal of M.A.O. College, Aligarh, who encouraged Muslim Communalism in the last decades of the 19th Century? (A) Dunlop Smith (B) Minto (C) William Morris (D) Theodore Beck
Answer: (D) Theodore Beck (1883–1899) promoted separate Muslim identity.
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75. ‘The Young India’ Nationalist paper, was started by (A) Annie Besant (B) Mahatma Gandhi (C) Lala Lajpat Rai (D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Answer: (C) Lala Lajpat Rai started Young India in 1916 (New York). Gandhi’s was weekly from 1919.
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76. Which Commission accentuated the discontent in all the political groups and parties for not associating any Indian member in it? (A) Welby Commission (B) Cripps Mission (C) Simon Commission (D) Cabinet Mission
Answer: (C) Simon Commission (1927): All-British → Boycott (“Simon Go Back”).
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77. Who assumed the command of the Indian National Army and gave famous battle cry, ‘Chalo Delhi’? (A) Rash Behari Bose (B) Mohan Singh (C) Shah Nawaz Khan (D) Subhash Chandra Bose
Answer: (D) Netaji in 1943: “Tum mujhe khoon do, main tumhe azadi dunga” & “Chalo Delhi”.
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78. “We shall either free India or die in the attempt …” who said it? (A) Jawaharlal Nehru (B) Mahatma Gandhi (C) Abul Kalam Azad (D) V.D. Savarkar
Answer: (B) Gandhi at AICC, 1942 (Quit India): “Do or Die”.
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79. Who raised the cry “Divide and Quit”?
(A) M.A. Ansari
(B) M.A. Jinnah
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) Muhammad Iqbal
Answer: (B) Jinnah in 1940s: Counter to “Quit India” → “Divide and Quit”.
80. Which Act provided for the partition of India into two new dominions – India and Pakistan?
(A) Govt. of India Act, 1919
(B) Govt. of India Act, 1935
(C) Indian Independence Act, 1947
(D) None of the above
Answer: (C) 3 June Plan implemented via Indian Independence Act, 1947.