Revolutionaries

Revolutionary Movements and Individuals (1–50)

The Chapekar Brothers were involved in the assassination of:
a) Curzon
b) Rand
c) Wellesley
d) Morley
✅ b) Rand
👉 They killed British plague commissioner W.C. Rand in Pune (1897).
The first organized revolutionary group in India was:
a) Anushilan Samiti
b) Abhinav Bharat
c) Jugantar
d) Mitra Mela
✅ d) Mitra Mela
👉 Formed by Vinayak Savarkar in Maharashtra, later became Abhinav Bharat.
Who founded Anushilan Samiti in Bengal?
a) Aurobindo Ghosh
b) B.C. Pal
c) Barindra Ghosh
d) Satish Chandra Bose
✅ d) Satish Chandra Bose
👉 Started in 1902 in Kolkata as a physical culture group.
Jugantar was associated with:
a) Punjab
b) Maharashtra
c) Bengal
d) Tamil Nadu
✅ c) Bengal
👉 A major revolutionary offshoot of Anushilan Samiti.
The Alipore Bomb Case is associated with which leader?
a) Bhagat Singh
b) Aurobindo Ghosh
c) Sukhdev
d) Ashfaqulla Khan
✅ b) Aurobindo Ghosh
👉 He was arrested in the 1908 case but later acquitted.
Who threw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly in 1929?
a) Rajguru
b) Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt
c) Chandrashekhar Azad
d) Sukhdev
✅ b) Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt
👉 Protested the Public Safety Bill without intention to kill.
The Ghadar Party was founded in:
a) London
b) San Francisco
c) Lahore
d) Paris
✅ b) San Francisco
👉 Founded in 1913 by Indian expatriates to spark armed revolt.
Who was the leader of the Kakori Conspiracy?
a) Ashfaqulla Khan
b) Ram Prasad Bismil
c) Rajguru
d) Ras Behari Bose
✅ b) Ram Prasad Bismil
👉 Planned the train robbery to fund revolutionary activities.
The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) was formed in:
a) 1918
b) 1920
c) 1924
d) 1928
✅ c) 1924
👉 Founded by Bismil and Sachindra Bakshi, later joined by Bhagat Singh.
Who was known as “The Lion of Punjab” and promoted aggressive nationalism?
a) Bhagat Singh
b) Lala Lajpat Rai
c) Rajguru
d) Chandrashekhar Azad
✅ b) Lala Lajpat Rai
👉 Died due to police lathi charge during Simon Commission protest.
The assassination of Saunders was in retaliation for:
a) Arms Act
b) INA suppression
c) Death of Lala Lajpat Rai
d) Rowlatt Act
✅ c) Death of Lala Lajpat Rai
👉 Bhagat Singh and associates avenged Lajpat Rai’s death.
Which revolutionary wrote Why I Am an Atheist?
a) Chandrashekhar Azad
b) Subhas Bose
c) Bhagat Singh
d) Ram Prasad Bismil
✅ c) Bhagat Singh
👉 Wrote this essay in jail before execution.
Who was the mentor of Chandrashekhar Azad?
a) Bhagat Singh
b) Ram Prasad Bismil
c) Aurobindo Ghosh
d) Surya Sen
✅ b) Ram Prasad Bismil
👉 Azad became active in HSRA under his influence.
The revolutionary who died by shooting himself to avoid capture was:
a) Rajguru
b) Ashfaqulla Khan
c) Chandrashekhar Azad
d) Sukhdev
✅ c) Chandrashekhar Azad
👉 Shot himself in Alfred Park, Allahabad in 1931.
Who was the leader of the Chittagong Armoury Raid (1930)?
a) Bhagat Singh
b) Surya Sen
c) Subhas Bose
d) Barindra Ghosh
✅ b) Surya Sen
👉 Also known as ‘Masterda’, led one of the most daring raids in Bengal.
Which female revolutionary participated in the Chittagong movement?
a) Sarojini Naidu
b) Durgawati Devi
c) Kalpana Dutt
d) Rani Gaidinliu
✅ c) Kalpana Dutt
👉 Played key role with Pritilata and Surya Sen.
The founder of Abhinav Bharat was:
a) Vinayak Savarkar
b) B.C. Pal
c) M.N. Roy
d) Madan Lal Dhingra
✅ a) Vinayak Savarkar
👉 Also a prominent writer of Hindu nationalist literature.
Who assassinated Curzon Wyllie in London in 1909?
a) Bhagat Singh
b) Madan Lal Dhingra
c) Vinayak Savarkar
d) Rash Behari Bose
✅ b) Madan Lal Dhingra
👉 He was hanged in London for this act.
Which organization was associated with the Berlin Plot (1915)?
a) Ghadar Party
b) INA
c) Congress Socialist Party
d) RSS
✅ a) Ghadar Party
👉 Attempted to incite mutiny in British Indian Army.
Which newspaper was started by Bhagat Singh?
a) The Tribune
b) Young India
c) Kirti
d) Hindustan Times
✅ c) Kirti
👉 Voice of HSRA and Left-leaning youth.
Who founded the Indian Independence League in Japan?
a) Subhas Chandra Bose
b) Rash Behari Bose
c) Captain Mohan Singh
d) Hemchandra Das
✅ b) Rash Behari Bose
👉 Preceded Subhas Bose in organizing overseas nationalist activity.
Which revolutionary movement had the motto: “No Tax, No Rent”?
a) Non-Cooperation
b) Bardoli
c) Chauri Chaura
d) HSRA underground
✅ d) HSRA underground
👉 Urged refusal to cooperate financially with the British.
What was the aim of the revolutionary movement in India?
a) Global revolution
b) Hindu Rashtra
c) Armed overthrow of British rule
d) Police reforms
✅ c) Armed overthrow of British rule
👉 They rejected constitutional and moderate methods.
Who was the only woman hanged by the British in the freedom struggle?
a) Kalpana Dutt
b) Pritilata Waddedar
c) Durgawati Devi
d) None
✅ d) None
👉 Pritilata committed suicide; no woman revolutionary was hanged.
Who helped Bhagat Singh escape after Saunders’ killing?
a) Sukhdev
b) Durgawati Devi
c) Chandra Shekhar Azad
d) Ram Prasad Bismil
✅ b) Durgawati Devi
👉 Disguised as his wife while he fled British surveillance.
Who was the founder of Ghadar Party?
a) Sohan Singh Bhakna
b) Baba Ram Singh
c) Surya Sen
d) Khudiram Bose
✅ a) Sohan Singh Bhakna
👉 He was the first president of the Ghadar Party.
Khudiram Bose was hanged at the age of:
a) 21
b) 17
c) 19
d) 23
✅ c) 19
👉 He became a martyr after the Muzaffarpur bombing.
Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki targeted which British official?
a) Curzon
b) Kingsford
c) Macaulay
d) Dyer
✅ b) Kingsford
👉 Judge notorious for harsh sentences on revolutionaries.
The Berlin Committee was established to:
a) Support Germany
b) Plan mutiny in India
c) Aid INA
d) Train spies
✅ b) Plan mutiny in India
👉 Tried to incite Indian soldiers during WWI.
Who was known as "Masterda"?
a) Bhagat Singh
b) Surya Sen
c) Aurobindo
d) Bismil
✅ b) Surya Sen
👉 School teacher turned revolutionary.
Name the newspaper edited by Lala Lajpat Rai?
a) Bande Mataram
b) Kesari
c) The Tribune
d) Young India
✅ c) The Tribune
👉 One of the earliest nationalist papers in Punjab.
Ram Prasad Bismil was associated with which party?
a) Congress
b) HRA
c) Anushilan Samiti
d) Khilafat
✅ b) HRA
👉 Hindustan Republican Association, later HSRA.
The motto of HSRA was:
a) Vande Mataram
b) Jai Hind
c) Inquilab Zindabad
d) Swaraj is my birthright
✅ c) Inquilab Zindabad
👉 Popularized by Bhagat Singh.
The Kakori Train Robbery took place in:
a) 1922
b) 1925
c) 1930
d) 1932
✅ b) 1925
👉 HRA looted government treasury to fund their activities.
The Hindustan Republican Association changed its name in:
a) 1926
b) 1928
c) 1931
d) 1925
✅ b) 1928
👉 Became Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.
Which revolutionary bombed the British Assembly without killing anyone?
a) Rajguru
b) Bismil
c) Bhagat Singh
d) Khudiram
✅ c) Bhagat Singh
👉 Protest, not violence, was the goal.
Aurobindo Ghosh stopped revolutionary politics after:
a) Alipore Bomb Case
b) Surat Split
c) Tilak’s trial
d) Ghadar uprising
✅ a) Alipore Bomb Case
👉 He turned to spirituality thereafter.
Which revolutionary was known as ‘Azad’ till death?
a) Bismil
b) Bhagat Singh
c) Chandrashekhar
d) Surya Sen
✅ c) Chandrashekhar
👉 Took vow to never be caught alive.
Pritilata Waddedar died during which activity?
a) Protest march
b) Jail escape
c) Attack on European club
d) Hunger strike
✅ c) Attack on European club
👉 Consumed cyanide after the raid in Chittagong.
Who said: “Every drop of my blood will give birth to another Bhagat Singh”?
a) Bhagat Singh
b) Azad
c) Batukeshwar Dutt
d) Sukhdev
✅ c) Batukeshwar Dutt
👉 Said during his trial.
Name the famous Bengali revolutionary who turned to communism?
a) Rash Behari Bose
b) M.N. Roy
c) Surya Sen
d) S.C. Bose
✅ b) M.N. Roy
👉 Founded the Communist Party of India abroad.
Rash Behari Bose later worked from:
a) USA
b) Germany
c) Japan
d) Russia
✅ c) Japan
👉 Helped form Indian Independence League and INA.
Which revolutionary tried to assassinate Lord Hardinge in 1912?
a) Jatindranath Mukherjee
b) Rash Behari Bose
c) Bismil
d) Rajguru
✅ b) Rash Behari Bose
👉 Threw bomb on his elephant carriage in Delhi.
Anushilan Samiti was strongest in:
a) Bihar
b) Maharashtra
c) Bengal
d) Delhi
✅ c) Bengal
👉 Most violent revolutionary center.
Who was the youngest martyr in the freedom movement?
a) Bhagat Singh
b) Sukhdev
c) Khudiram Bose
d) Chandrashekhar Azad
✅ c) Khudiram Bose
👉 Hanged at 19.
Who gave the slogan “Swaraj is my birthright”?
a) Gandhi
b) Nehru
c) Tilak
d) Bhagat Singh
✅ c) Tilak
👉 It was later adopted by revolutionaries.
What was the aim of Hindustan Republican Association?
a) Establish democracy
b) Uplift Dalits
c) Overthrow British through armed revolution
d) Social reform
✅ c) Overthrow British through armed revolution
Who created the flag used by INA and IIL?
a) Bhagat Singh
b) Subhas Bose
c) Madame Cama
d) Tilak
✅ c) Madame Cama
👉 First unfurled Indian flag at Stuttgart (1907).
The most famous slogan of Bhagat Singh was:
a) Vande Mataram
b) Inquilab Zindabad
c) Swaraj is my birthright
d) Quit India
✅ b) Inquilab Zindabad
The Chittagong Armoury Raid failed because:
a) Lack of public support
b) British reinforcement
c) Poor planning
d) Bad weather
✅ b) British reinforcement
👉 But it inspired future generations.