Exploring the Indian Independence Movement Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

Joseph Baptista coined the phrase "Swaraj is my Birthright" that was made popular by Lokmanya Tilak during the Indian independence movement.

in his later years, Indian journalist C. Karunakara Menon was detested by the extremists of the Indian independence movement as well as the Government of British India.

the Tamil film Thyagabhoomi is the only Indian film banned by the British Raj for propagating the cause of India's freedom struggle.

wearing the Gandhi cap became a steadfast tradition during the Indian independence movement that is continued by Indian politicians to this day.

Baba Kanshi Ram wore only black clothes from 1931 to 1943 in support of Indian independence, which earned him the sobriquet of Siahposh General or General in Black.

Amrutanjan Healthcare Limited, an Indian pharmaceutical company specializing in Ayurvedic balm for headaches and cold, was founded by freedom fighter Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao.

Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned in the Belgaum Fort (pictured) during India's struggle for independence.

British lawyer and activist of the Indian independence movement Eardley Norton was instrumental in establishing an UK-chapter of the Indian National Congress.

Amar Kutir in West Bengal, India, once a place of refuge for independence movement activists, has been turned into a society for the promotion of arts and crafts.

Indian independence activist and Managing-Director of The Hindu from 1905 to 1923, Kasturi Ranga Iyengar, was a brother of Anglophile Indian civil servant S. Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar.

Exploring the Indian Independence Movement

1 They were mostly members of the upwardly mobile and successful western-educated provincial elites, engaged in professions such as law, teaching, and ________.

2 On 3 June 1947, Viscount Louis Mountbatten, the last British ________, announced the partitioning of the British Indian Empire into a secular India and a Muslim Pakistan.

3 1912 saw the Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy planned under Rash Behari Bose, an erstwhile ________ member, to assassinate the then Viceroy of India Charles Hardinge.

4 The agitation unleashed by the acts culminated on 13 April 1919, in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (also known as the Amritsar Massacre) in ________, Punjab.

5 Inspired by a suggestion made by A.O. Hume, a retired British civil servant, seventy-three Indian delegates met in Mumbai in 1885 and founded the ________.

6 The conspiracy culminated in an attempt to Bomb the Viceregal procession on 23 December 1912, on the occasion of transferring the Imperial Capital from ________ to Delhi.

7 Bahadur Shah was exiled to Rangoon, ________ where he died in 1862, finally bringing the Mughal dynasty to an end.

8 The last stages of the freedom struggle from the 1920s saw the Congress adopt the policies of nonviolence led by ________.

9 It was during this battle that ________ was killed.

10 The British, already alarmed by the advance of the Japanese army to the India–Burma border, responded the next day by imprisoning Gandhi at the Aga Khan Palace in ________.

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