India History 7

ഇന്ത്യൻ നാഷണൽ കോൺഗ്രസ്, പ്രാർത്ഥന സമാജം, തിയോസഫിക്കൽ സൊസൈറ്റി എന്നിവയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചോദ്യങ്ങളാണ് ഇന്നത്തെ പാഠത്തിൽ ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തിയിട്ടുള്ളത്

• First woman president of INC after Independence

                    Indira Gandhi

• First person to become president of INC for the two consecutive terms

                    Rash Bihari Ghosh (1907 and 1908)

• First foreigner to become president of INC twice

                    Sir William Wedderburn

• First person to become president of INC twice

                    WC Banerjee

• First South Indian to become president of INC

                    P Ananda Charlu

• INC session meeting in which Nehru and Gandhi met for the first time

                    Lucknow Session 1916

• The joint session of INC and Muslim league was held at

                    Lucknow, 1916

• Major leaders of extremist group in INC

                    Lala Lajpath Rai, Bal Gangadhata Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Aurbindo Ghosh

• Major leaders of Moderates group in INC

                    Dadabhai Naoroj, Gopalakrishna Gokhale, WE Banerjee

• Indian Association started by

                    Surendranath Banerjee

• Indian Association started in

                    1876

• Indian National Conference convened by

                    Surendranath Banerjee

• Indian National Conference convened in

                    1883 at Kolkata

• Poorna Swaraj resolution passed in which session of INC

                    Lahore Session of 1929

• Congress session that decided to celebrate 26th January as Independence day

                    Lahore Session

• INC president at the time of Quit India Movement

                    Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad

• Longest serving INC president before independence

                    Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad

• Only Malayalee to attend the first session of INC

                    GP Pillai

• Only Malayalee to became president of INC

                    C Sankaran Nair (1897)

• The longest serving president of INC after independence

                    Sonia Gandhi

• President of INC at the time of Indian Independence

                    JB Kripalani

• Vande Mataram first sang in which session of INC

                    1896 Kolkata session

• Vande Mataram first sang by

                    Raveendranath Tagore

• Jana Gana Mana first sang in which session of INC

                    1911 Kolkata session

• President of 1911 Culcutta session

                    BN Dhar

• Second woman president of INC

                    Sarojini Naidu

• Third woman president of INC

                    Nellisen Gupta (1933, Kolkata)

• Fourth woman president of INC

                    Indira Gandhi (1959, Delhi)

• Fifth woman president of INC

                    Sonia Gandhi (1998 onwards)

• Who mocked the activities of INC as Holiday Entertainment

                    Balagangadhara Tilak

• The city where the most number of INC sessions held before independence

                    Kolkata

• The city where the most number of INC sessions held after independence

                    New Delhi

• Last session of INC in British India was held at

                    Meerut (1946)

• Prarthana Samaj was founded at

                    Bombay in 1867

• Prarthana Samaj was founded by

                    Atmaram Pandurang

• Who encouraged Prarthana Samaj in South India

                    Veeresalingam Pantalu

• Theosophical Movement was founded by

                    Madam Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott

• Theosophical Movement was founded at

                    New York

• Theosophical Movement was founded in

                    1875

• Headquarters of Theosophical Movement was shifted to

                    Adayar near Madras

• Grand old woman of Indian Nationalism

                    Annie Besant

• Annie Basant took over the leadership of Theosophical Movement in 

                    1893

• New India and Commonwheel were published by

                    Annie Basant
                                                                               (To be Continued...)